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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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

We're doing that here :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Nuggets not having an Android app is an interesting choice.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We people who have android exists

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

haha no, seems to just be a coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago