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Writing the next chapter for Prismatic

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33 pointsgrayclhn13 comments

The team at prismatic listened to our complaints about not being able to export our data:

> Update: You can also export the URLs of all your saved stories in CSV format by first logging in to the webapp, and clicking "Export Stories" in the drop-down menu next to your avatar in the left side panel.

Kudos for listening to the community, especially during what must be a difficult moment to go through.

9 days warning, recommendation to export data is to manually copy out the URLs or send them to pocket, individually. In a news reader app where you've possibly have viewed and archived hundreds or thousands of articles.

Another example of "don't trust startups with your data"

More accurately, don't put your data in someone else's cloud. It could be a lot worse. A company could sell your data when they shut down the product, and there's not much you can do about it. What happens in a few years when Slack is no longer a hot new thing, revenue slows, and another company buys them out because they'd really love to mine that awesome dataset.

In reality it is: Don't trust anyone with your data.

I still struggle to understand why people use systems that don't have an inbuilt way to easily export their data.

UPDATE: and they just took the time to e-mail me to tell me about the export they just added, great response!

Microsoft apparently wanted to buy them in March: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/01/prismatic-2/

Guess that didn't go as planned.

RIP Prismatic. Got into it from the Clojure community, and hoping they do well in their next endeavor -- and their libraries remain maintained esp. prismatic/schema !

Love the work they open sourced in Clojure. Very sorry to see them go. I was a user of their app for awhile, but I tend to believe human led curation provides better signal to noise when it comes to content. It was a tremendous effort in trying to break that barrier and I'm thankful for all they contributed back!

Going to miss these guys. They wrote some beautiful clojure.

For those asking about exporting saved articles, I just found an "Export Stories" link on the web in the profile drop-down menu.

Will miss Prismatic a lot, I use the app everyday. Anyone know of a similar app?

They could at least offer automated exports of the links we've kept.

Yes, I agree. That feature shouldn't really be more than a few hours work.

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