Lighthouse update March 30th

The past weeks were focused on improvements under the hood and on existing features.

• Improved content parsing
• Sources now show their state, if they become unavailable
• Additional HTML metadata is used to get the relevant metadata for articles
• Subscribing to websites now works better on mobile
• And a couple of small UI improvements

One larger improvement was about the UX flow of inbox, summary view, and article view.

In the inbox, the summary view is automatically closed when the article is bookmarked, archived, or dismissed.
There’s also a new setting Inbox behavior. If Show compact articles show only the title after bookmarking or dismissing. If Hide is set, then articles are immediately removed.

Another improvement is, when going to the article view and changing the state, then going back to the inbox, the change is reflected on the inbox.

All those changes simplify the review process and make it faster.

What’s currently happening - discovery

In the last update I wrote about the new framing to “keep expertise current”. And work is ongoing to make this a reality with Lighthouse.

A great discovery system is part of that. Getting there is a lot of work, and much of it is happening continuously in the background.

The first step will be a list of blogs about the most important topics in software engineering and product management. That gives especially new users a place to start. And over time this will expand into a full discovery mechanism, covering many more topics and subtopics, and letting you search for blogs by many different attributes.