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Shutting down Artifact (medium.com)

submitted 9 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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

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[–] small44@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz 18 points 9 months ago

We're doing that here :)

[–] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 9 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 17 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

Nuggets: News & Conversation: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nuggets-news-conversation/id6462796101
Feeds & Fediverse: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newsbite/id1478566472
Feeeed: https://testflight.apple.com/join/ixRrWfQL
Feedly: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/feedly-smart-news-reader/id396069556
Perplexity https://apps.apple.com/us/app/perplexity-ask-anything/id1668000334
NetNewsWire: https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

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@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Nuggets not having an Android app is an interesting choice.

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 8 points 9 months ago

Thanks!

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

[–] small44@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

We people who have android exists

[–] LinusOnLemmyWld@lemmy.world -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] will_a113@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

haha no, seems to just be a coincidence.

[–] slugworth@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] flumph@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] klef25@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Maximilious@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Found a couple more alternatives.

https://otherweb.com/

https://letmeknow.news/