Personally, I have found that Instapaper 4.0 (I assume this is what you meant when you referred to 3.0) has regressed. Archiving read stories, for example, used to be one click - now it's 2 or 3.
Automatic/background downloading fails sometimes, often I see articles unavailable (I don't often remember to check before I leave wifi/signal, so it's a pain to find this out when I expect it to work behind the scenes).
Marco's concept of darknet social networking/sharing is great in theory, if he were working for MS Research or something, but in reality, it's confusing and challenging: I want to share stuff with my wife and find it incredibly hard to know if it got there without having to bug her to find out. So we resort to emailing it back and forth - which completely breaks the model.
There's no semantic layering on top, exporting to the kindle is tricky (it wont, for example, guess that i've read an article exported to the kindle, and remove it from my list..)
I can't have it archive and send stuff to pinboard easily -- and if i want to do anything with the API, i better be prepared to pay a weird licensing fee.
As much as I want to support Marco, and I really do, he makes it really hard for me to be enthusiastic about what he ships, and I feel that his support sucks.
I'd bet 100$ he's reading this thread, but he won't engage - and that's really striking. I often wonder how things look from his ivory tower.
Automatic/background downloading fails sometimes, often I see articles unavailable (I don't often remember to check before I leave wifi/signal, so it's a pain to find this out when I expect it to work behind the scenes).
Marco's concept of darknet social networking/sharing is great in theory, if he were working for MS Research or something, but in reality, it's confusing and challenging: I want to share stuff with my wife and find it incredibly hard to know if it got there without having to bug her to find out. So we resort to emailing it back and forth - which completely breaks the model.
There's no semantic layering on top, exporting to the kindle is tricky (it wont, for example, guess that i've read an article exported to the kindle, and remove it from my list..)
I can't have it archive and send stuff to pinboard easily -- and if i want to do anything with the API, i better be prepared to pay a weird licensing fee.
As much as I want to support Marco, and I really do, he makes it really hard for me to be enthusiastic about what he ships, and I feel that his support sucks.
I'd bet 100$ he's reading this thread, but he won't engage - and that's really striking. I often wonder how things look from his ivory tower.