This is a mini app review, in case you couldn’t tell from the tag that says “app review”.

Flyleaf is a “read it later” app whose main inspiration is Instapaper, an old read later app from 2008 (and probably the first one ever made). But it’s not just based on Instapaper, it’s based on the Instapaper from 2008. With pagination. The dev has stated that his main reason for making it is just that there’s nothing else out there that has Instapaper’s pagination feature, and Instapaper itself doesn’t even support it that well.

I quite like pagination (scrolling hurts my wrist and feels worse to read), so it was a no brainer for me to use. It also doesn’t hurt that it’s cheaper than the read later app I was using before (also, matter is integrating a bunch of ai features that get in the way of the reading part of a read later app. Really sucks but that’s what vc money gets you). I’m still using the old one too for the remaining length of the subscription, but I’m hoping that I won’t have to r…

This post was written on my phone! Trying to build a bit of a workflow maybe to make posting on mobile as seamless as possible.

i like hoarding images i like, and there’s just very few apps and tools i can use to actually do that and it sucks idk. let me hoard images! raindrop is passable but i don’t like that opening them just opens it in the browser and also just raindrop in general idk

Here's a test post! Just giving things a try here. Expect more to come!

if you post a lot on cohost it’s almost certainly because you have it saved on your home screen and the work needed to make a new post is open the app and tap the compose button. you gotta make it just as easy to post on your own site! you’re not gonna use it as much if you don’t! it’s okay to spend way too much work up front ensuring the actual posting process is as seamless as possible, but it’s gotta be easy in the moment for you to go from dumb joke to posted dumb joke

my only regret¹ with cohost shutting down is that i haven’t seen enough cool art on here.

please comment or share or whatever with cool art

Footnotes

1. aside from all the other ones ↩

i’m still actively looking for work. i have experience with front end dev, ui design, and have worked in the education sector. i’m good at building things up and breaking down concepts. you can find my work info at eviefinch.com under portfolio. idk it’d still be nice to add one more nice thing cohost has done for me at the end of it all, even though it’s already given me more than enough

i recently used a free trial for a month of manga up by squeenix and man it’s really bad. it’s so bad that i didn’t even consider the free trial to be good value. they split every chapter up into multiple 10-page parts, to the point that i think i’ve seen some manga go to chapter X.7, which they do because you only get 4 free chapters a day. the translation quality is often quite bad, with some manga having multiple basic spelling errors, including an especially awful “pleas. se.” (or something along thise lines i forgot the exact bubble but it was consistently that bad across the whole manga). it only has 4 main genres on the home page: isekai, fantasy, romance, and other. worst of all was one finished manga that was split into so many sub-chapters and doled out so slowly that the release date for the finale is in 2026. obviously you can just read all of it if you pay such an obscene amount of money that it would probably be cheaper to buy every single volume at the store. what a terr…