Personally I've always wanted to like Instapaper more. I really do. I've given it a few extended runs, on it's own, and parallel to Pocket; but I always end up moving back to Pocket.
One thing I've noticed with these types of services is that they quickly start becoming intrusive and annoying. Ads are the obvious annoyance. But as an additional example, the Pocket extension injects code into certain sites (HackerNews being one) so that I can "more easily" "pocket" posted articles directly from the listing page itself. And in fairness it can be disabled, but it's enabled by default. And with things like this, I just find that simpler is better. I don't need all these extra features being pushed and modifying my browsing experience "by default".
I use it primarily on my Android tablet (Nvidia Shield K1), and occasionally on my phone (also Android, Moto X Pure 2015). I haven't noticed any problems. I use it for both reading and adding using the built-in sharing functionality in Android. For setup I simply set my URL, username, and password in the settings and used the "Autofill" option to handle populating the rest of the settings, and it works great. I'm running the server itself in a Docker container, with connections proxied through Nginx (also in a Docker container).
Don't hesitate to ping us on gitter.im/wallabag/wallabag if you still have any problems.
About "the Pocket extension injects code into certain sites", can you give me more details please?
I've been an Instapaper user more or less since it launched. I have tried other services (like Pocket), but I've found their parsers inferior to Instapaper. Instapaper also seems to have focused more on the experience of reading, more than "supporting all kind of content". With the Instapaper plugin in Chrome it's quick to add articles to the reading list from twitter/HN/any page.
Two things on my wish list:
- Let me download my full history from their API and not just the last 500 articles
- Let me sort the reading list in their app on "last opened"
If there was the same for Instapaper I would jump. I find it generally does a much better parsing job. Pocket occasionally completely borks on an article and will just redirect you to the original. Other times it often misses bullet point lists (probably thinks they are navigation). Whenever this happens Instapaper almost always handles the same article with aplomb.
Aside: Let me take the opportunity to plug a little app I wrote called Erudite[1] that can download articles from Instapaper and Pocket, convert them to an appropriate format such as EPUB or MOBI, and add them to your Calibre ebook library. It is a command-line driven tool.
[1] http://evanmclean.com/software/erudite/ (Note that some of the documentation on the web-site is out of date. Doesn't mention Pocket and still mentions Readability, but the doco in the download is up to date.)
I found that Instapaper occasionally stripped out images when they should have been left in the article. I guess a lot of it comes down to how consistently the pages themselves are coded.
I'm using it to collect longer texts (through a bookmarklet in my browser) that I can then later read off-line on my Kindle.
Like wallabag does. And you can also export into pdf, csv, txt, epub, json, xml.