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Shutting down Artifact

It's a shame! It was actually a good news source with a curated feed not run by Google!

• Artifact app to be shut down, citing a small market opportunity and the need to focus on newer projects.

• App's complexity and operations will be slimmed down, with the removal of the ability to add new comments and posts.

• Existing posts will remain visible, and core news reading capabilities will continue until the end of February.

Freedium link: https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/artifact-news/shutting-down-artifact-1e70de46d419

AnActOfCreation OP ,
@AnActOfCreation@programming.dev avatar

Found a couple more alternatives.

https://otherweb.com/

https://letmeknow.news/

klef25 ,

I really liked their option to rewrite clickbait headlines. That saved so much time and frustration reading nonsense articles.

Maximilious ,

I completely forgot I had installed this app until reading this post. Guess they are making the right choice!

Wahots ,
@Wahots@pawb.social avatar

I remember trying it and disliking it. Wasn't very good, which seems to be echoed by other users. :p

flumph ,
@flumph@programming.dev avatar

Their recommendation algorithm was terrible. It just sent me every article from BookRiot and any article that mentioned whiskey.

cyd ,

Thought this was about Valve's Artifact TCG, and was like "wait, didn't they already shut that down?"

Ghostalmedia ,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

Am I the only person in the comments that didn’t like Artifact? It was basically Digg v4. It was full of sponsored content and blog spam; and user’s couldn’t submit content.

It was everything people revolved about on other news aggregator platforms.

slugworth ,

Been using it since before public release. I loved the news reader mode. It was so clean and simple. The news curation algo is solid. I will miss Atifact.

will_a113 ,

There's a thread from last week where some other alternatives were discussed: among them

I think the concept of a "mixed reader" that can pull in Big Social / Fediverse / RSS and other curated sources has a lot of potential (Nuggets is the most interesting one to me here)

satansbartender ,

Nuggets not having an Android app is an interesting choice.

AnActOfCreation OP ,
@AnActOfCreation@programming.dev avatar

Thanks!

Unfortunately a lot of these are Apple-only and/or just RSS readers. I'll miss Artifact's algorithm.

LinusOnLemmyWld ,

Curious if this is a subtle attempt at flex, on the internet you never know

will_a113 ,

haha no, seems to just be a coincidence.

small44 ,

We people who have android exists

small44 ,

Makes me sad, i liked the ability to discuss the news on the comments

JaymesRS ,
@JaymesRS@literature.cafe avatar

There were many times someone else’s comment stopped me before I read the Johnathon Turley opinion piece Artifact kept trying to throw at me.

pineapple_pizza ,

We're doing that here :)

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