[HN Gopher] Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs
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Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs
Author : janpio
Score : 76 points
Date : 2024-10-29 15:37 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (blog.omnivore.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (blog.omnivore.app)
| andreagrandi wrote:
| Thanks for making the code base open source
| xz18r wrote:
| I was already wondering why development on Omnivore was halted...
|
| This isn't good news at all for Omnivore users. It made me
| legitimately consider switching away from my self-hosted Wallabag
| instance because everything looked so sleek and promising; in
| terms of read-it-later apps, it really held the promise of the
| big next thing (as far as that can apply to such a "simple"
| category).
|
| I'm not sure if articles read aloud is the thing that Omnivore
| users are looking for, per se. Ah well, they'll know why they did
| it...
|
| On a side note:
|
| > All Omnivore users will be able to export their information
| from the service through November 15 2024, after which all
| information will be deleted.
|
| Just me or is that extremely short notice? That's in 2 weeks...
| theschmed wrote:
| > Just me or is that extremely short notice? That's in 2
| weeks...
|
| It is not just you.
| dod9er wrote:
| Too bad... I also really liked it and used. Seems like I go for
| wallabag again. Maybe it will be possible to selfhost omnivore at
| some point in time ?!
| qw3rty01 wrote:
| It already has a self-hosting option:
| https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/tree/main/self-host...
|
| It's just not documented well.
| thylacine222 wrote:
| It's not a great self-hosting option, tbh, depends on a lot
| of Google services and the support for it in the apps can be
| finicky.
| xz18r wrote:
| The license allows forking, become a hero!
| lxgr wrote:
| tl;dr: They got acqui-hired and are shutting the app and service
| down.
|
| Ugh, it was so good!
|
| Self-hosting it seems quite complicated, though. I really hope
| somebody will step up and offer a hosted version of it.
| dod9er wrote:
| Yes, just as it is right now I would love a cheap alternative.
| No need for fancy speech or AI features from my Side. Do one
| thing and do it good...
| theshrike79 wrote:
| [delayed]
| guptarohit wrote:
| why good things don't last longer.
| raybb wrote:
| Ugh anyone have a rundown of how good the parsing is on wallabag
| vs instapaper vs pocket (or something else)?
| darthwalsh wrote:
| I had been using Pocket until a few months ago, and pocket's
| parser was a little better. It wouldn't choke on GitHub repos,
| for example.
|
| But both would miss significant article content :/
| thylacine222 wrote:
| this really sucks, it's by far the best reader app out there.
| Hoping that people will be able to figure out a straightforward
| way to do self-hosting, because I would be willing to use the app
| as it is right now forever.
| 0x6c6f6c wrote:
| Except on Android, where you couldn't even tag saved articles.
|
| I noticed development had stopped weeks ago. Sort of figured
| something like this was going to happen. Unfortunate, but I'll
| be happy on Wallabag again. I'd been just waiting for a push to
| do migrate back.
| thylacine222 wrote:
| I seem to be able to tag articles, do you not have an "Edit
| Labels" option in the article menu? Regardless, they
| definitely were lagging on Android development, but it was
| still finished enough to use it. There's even a version that
| supports pagination:
| https://github.com/tent4kel/omnivore/releases/
| Carbon1603 wrote:
| So, where to go next?
| paulmorabito wrote:
| I'd love an easier self hosted option too.
|
| In the meantime, if you are in the Apple world then Goodlinks
| is a privacy friendly option for saving articles to read later.
|
| I haven't found a decent alternative that can add articles via
| email like Omnivore. My workaround is to get the RSS link from
| Substack and add these to my RSS reader that I self host
| (FreshRSS).
| samantha-wiki wrote:
| I'm looking into migrating to FreshRSS from omnivore now.
|
| Does [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/165n
| nk6/comment...) solve the email ingestion issue for you?
| paulmorabito wrote:
| I've heard of this but didn't use it because all of my
| email newsletters are on substack and substack supports
| RSS. Also, with substack RSS, you get a feed per newsletter
| whereas Kill The Newsletter gives you one feed for all
| newsletters going to their address.
| leshokunin wrote:
| Feed in gives you an email address for newsletters
| jamil7 wrote:
| I built and ran a read it later app in the iOS app store for a
| few years as a side project. I found it pretty difficult to
| monetise and the support burden got to me. I eventually just
| pulled it from the store as I was getting emails and reviews and
| felt I couldn't really give it the attention it needed. I saw
| quite a few competitors coming and going over the years, either
| through acquisitions or developers just losing interest. It seems
| like a difficult thing to make work sustainably.
| darrmit wrote:
| Ugh this is the only read-it-later service I ever found that
| "stuck". It was so simple and good. This sucks.
| cstuder wrote:
| I came from Instapaper after their price hike to Omnivore and
| went back to Instapaper. I felt that Omnivore was over-
| complicated with their "every folder is a filter" structure.
| Instapaper feels much more straightforward.
| bberenberg wrote:
| For what it's worth I've contacted them to see if they would be
| open to handing over the hosted version. The current answer is
| no, based in part on wanting to delete user data. I suggested I
| could take it without data and users could reimport their data
| post handover. If you'd like to see this happen send them an
| email and voice your support.
| freeqaz wrote:
| Damn they're giving under 3 weeks to export before you lose all
| of your data? That's insane! If I were on an extended vacation
| and missed this, my data would be gone when I get back.
|
| They _really_ should increase that to be longer! Switch to read-
| only, but give at least 3-6 months to export. That's crazy
| otherwise
| petemir wrote:
| I have not tested them yet, but (actually) self-hosted potential
| alternatives: linkwarden [0], hoarder [1]
|
| [0] https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden
|
| [1] https://github.com/hoarder-app/hoarder
|
| Edit: fixed wording
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