Readkit instapaper limit upgrade#

If you offer a service with what you might call a 'livable' or 'comfortable' free tier, it will end up used as heavily as you allow by people who will cost you resources indefinitely, but who are far more likely to switch to another free service than to ever pay you a cent. My guess is that a person who subscribes to the entry level of a product is more likely to be upsold to something else than a free user is going to even think about paying. If I host it myself, then I don't have to pay anyone for hosting my feeds, and I'm not supposed to be targeted by marketing campaigns to pull money out of my wallet on a daily basis. Thats the reason why I moved from Feedly to a self-hosted Miniflux instance (and Nextcloud News before it). And of course I understand that they also need to make money, but they should also respect those who simply want an RSS reader and are insensitive to all these campaigns. I feel like being approached every day by a dude who wants to sell me a vaccum cleaner that I don't want.

Readkit instapaper limit upgrade#

I personally felt very annoyed by Feedly nagging me on a daily basis to upgrade in order to get features that I didn't need and never asked for. But I'm not among those people, and many other people are not. Some people may only care about the information they eventually get, not HOW they get it. AI-curated feeds, integrations with X or Y, nudges to let go of RSS entirely for some applications and instead use whatever integration they've come up with. The problem is that companies try to monetize RSS, and the only way of doing so is to provide features that RSS can't offer. Monetizing RSS is like trying to monetize HTTP.