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medium.com

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

  • cyd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    10 months ago

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

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    10 months 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.

  • slugworth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    10 months 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.

  • klef25@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

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

  • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

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

    • FlumPHP@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

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

  • Maximilious@kbin.social
    6·
    10 months ago

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