Shutting down Artifact
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
Makes me sad, i liked the ability to discuss the news on the comments
26ReplyWe're doing that here :)
18ReplyThere were many times someone else’s comment stopped me before I read the Johnathon Turley opinion piece Artifact kept trying to throw at me.
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Thought this was about Valve's Artifact TCG, and was like "wait, didn't they already shut that down?"
21ReplyAm 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.
18ReplyThere'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)
17ReplyNuggets not having an Android app is an interesting choice.
13ReplyThanks!
Unfortunately a lot of these are Apple-only and/or just RSS readers. I'll miss Artifact's algorithm.
8ReplyCurious if this is a subtle attempt at flex, on the internet you never know
-4Replyhaha no, seems to just be a coincidence.
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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.
8ReplyI remember trying it and disliking it. Wasn't very good, which seems to be echoed by other users. :p
8ReplyTheir recommendation algorithm was terrible. It just sent me every article from BookRiot and any article that mentioned whiskey.
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I really liked their option to rewrite clickbait headlines. That saved so much time and frustration reading nonsense articles.
7ReplyI completely forgot I had installed this app until reading this post. Guess they are making the right choice!
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