bthdonohue

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by bthdonohue 1y ago
It's me. For what it's worth I was involved with Instapaper at betaworks (after Marco sold it to betaworks), and Pinterest sold it back to me. Been 12 years with it now!
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by bthdonohue 1y ago
Glad to hear :-)
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by bthdonohue 8y ago
Thanks Jorde – appreciate it!
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by bthdonohue 8y ago
Hey there – we started requiring passwords many years ago, but the service originally launched without requiring a password or email address. You can read more about it here: http://blog.instapaper.com/post/2318776738
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by bthdonohue 8y ago
Hey zulrah, we are working on GDPR and plan to have the service available in the EU as soon as possible. Hope to have you back on Instapaper when we become available in the EU again. Really sorry for the inconvenience.
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by bthdonohue 8y ago
I read HN regularly, but I'm pretty much a lurker on all social channels. When there's a conversation relevant to me or the products I work on, I like to jump in to represent the relevant company or products. With respect to follo
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by bthdonohue 8y ago
Hi Brad, Brian from Instapaper here. Just want to reassure you that's not the case here, we intend to operate Instapaper for the foreseeable future. We made this decision because we believe it’s best for both Pinterest and Instapaper.
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by bthdonohue 8y ago
Hey there – Brian from Instapaper here – we have a pretty clear and accurate privacy policy around the data we collect and how we use it, you can find it here: https://instapaper.com/privacy
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by bthdonohue 8y ago
The scope of work for GDPR was underestimated by me, we were not able to complete that work for the deadline on Friday, and this was the required alternative. We are working very hard to minimize the service interruption.
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by bthdonohue 8y ago
The ban will be IP-based for IPs in EU countries, and it goes into effect at approximately 2PM Pacific Time.
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by bthdonohue 8y ago
The ban will be an IP-based ban for IPs from countries in the EU.
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by bthdonohue 8y ago
The ban that goes into effect tomorrow will be IP-based for IPs in EU countries.
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by bthdonohue 8y ago
Hey – Brian from Instapaper here. I've been at Instapaper since the betaworks acquisition in 2013, so I have a lot of context here. We've made tons of progress since I joined, redesigning the apps, websites, launching highlights,
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by bthdonohue 8y ago
We detail the types of information we collect and how we use the data in our privacy policy here: https://www.instapaper.com/privacy
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by bthdonohue 8y ago
The email we sent to EU users (quoted in linked article) has the important details regarding the service interruption in the EU. Additionally, I can say that our privacy policy is concise, clear, and accurate with respect to the types of in
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by bthdonohue 8y ago
Hey all – Brian from Instapaper here. We worked really hard to try to avoid a service interruption in the EU, but unfortunately we were unable to. We continue to work hard to ensure that the service interruption is as brief as possible. Let
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by bthdonohue 8y ago
Hahaha, meetings on my team at Pinterest are a little more substantial than that, but maybe it varies team to team?
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by bthdonohue 9y ago
Please take all my upvotes
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by bthdonohue 9y ago
I believe this only applies to applications that use Instagram's API, which we do not. https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/19/instagram-cracks-down-on-c...
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by bthdonohue 9y ago
Brian from Instapaper here, we originally wrote it that way, but it felt really weird and disjointed, especially if you weren't familiar with the entire history. Just wanted to keep it consistent, not really take credit for Marco'
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Show HN: FFFFOUND to Pinterest Importer(pinterest.github.io)
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
I understand and appreciate the skepticism, however, the reason we're making this change is because we want to provide the best experience for our users. Pinterest receives value from the ongoing operation of Instapaper in the form of
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
To better understand news and trending links on the web.
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
Well I meant specifically with respect to going free. As a policy, we do not publish usage numbers.
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
Brian from Instapaper here. We have no plans to shut the app down, and a big part of the value the app provides (parser improvements, aggregate information on links) requires the ongoing operation of the service.
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
Brian from Instapaper here. It was three of us, and two came along with the acquisition. We all agreed to it before making the decision.
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
Hi there, Brian from Instapaper here. We will not be serving advertisements in your Instapaper queue. The value Instapaper provides to Pinterest in terms of parser capabilities and aggregate information about links is enough to justify the
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
As part of my computer science program in college, we studied the ACM's Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice, which in effect is what you describe. http://www.acm.org/about/se-code
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
You can export your articles at instapaper.com/user as always, however, we will not be using Instapaper users' personal data for any type of targeting or sharing off-service.
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by bthdonohue 10y ago
The team was open to moving to SF as part of the acquisition. Also, there are only three of us so it wasn't as if many people were uprooted.

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