Well, the new update for Scoop.it has killed Scoop.it for me. The new posting form just never loads in Firefox — and I have AdBlock and NoScript disabled at Scoop.it. The old Scoop.it browser bookmarklet has never worked for me in Firefox, so I can’t use that either.
In the Google Chrome browser, the Scoop.it post interface does appear, but the control graphics mysteriously fail to load, and there’s no snippet of text from the article…
So I’m now forced to use the Pale Moon browser, where the new posting interface does work. But the new post interface is just so un-intuitive compared to the old one.
Why do great Web services (Flickr, etc) feel compelled to ruin themselves by messing around with what works and what people are familiar with, thus forcing many veteran users to look seriously at alternatives? If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.
I’m now actively on the lookout for a Scoop.it alternative. Suggestions are welcome.
by David Haden
09 Mar 2016 at 14:43
Some possible alternatives I found just now…
1. Paper.li at https://paper.li/
Couldn’t get it to work in Firefox. My Facebook login went fine, but then the initial page creation never stopped “Loading…”.
2. Flipboard at https://flipboard.com/
Looks nice, but the dark-and-gloomy main page was deeply off-putting, as was the total lack of links to showcase their best user Pages. I still ventured in, but then the sign-up with Facebook never stopped “Loading…”.
3. Crayon http://crayon.net/
Very basic, and doesn’t seem to have been updated for years. Possibly since 2005, since that’s what the copyright notice reads.
4. Pressly at https://www.pressly.com/
Only offers a “free trial”, rather than a free account.
There are also a lot of shiny me-to content-marketing apps, the biggest of which seem to be Curata and rebelmouse.com and 3dissue.com. These are obviously only meant for big marketing agencies and corporations.
So it appears that Scoop.it is the only game in town for individuals with a free account, unless one has a standalone WordPress installation and can install the required plugins and templates with it.
All of which makes it all the more annoying that Scoop.it can no longer work in my main Web browsers, because some idiot Web designer needed to tinker with the UI.
by David Haden
09 Mar 2016 at 15:11
Ok, I found a way to get Scoop.it working in Firefox!
1. Install the AddThis addon in Firefox, and set it to use a right-click option (otherwise it clutters the screen with an additional bookmarks bar, ugh…) and than also set it to reference Scoop.it. You don’t have to give it your log-on details at Scoop.it.
2. On right-clicking anywhere on a page your want to Scoop, Select “Scoop.it”, thus…
3. This will take you to a Scoop.it posting page that works, but is cramped inside a phone-sized box. Click the enlarge icon.
4. A new window will load, and the new interface will display fine in Firefox. With an URL of http://www.scoop.it/bookmarklet?childWindow=1 — thus proving that it wasn’t my browser addons that were blocking the loading of the posting form in a standard Firefox page.