I’m announcing two new global feeds: a redesigned Global Shared Stories and a new feed called Good Reads. Redesigned Global Shared Stories Global Shared Stories has been in the sidebar for years, and for years it worked in a way I never lik…
Someone on the forum posted a long-ish list of ideas, and one of them was small enough that I built it the same week: let people change the NewsBlur app icon. Your home screen is yours, and an app you open dozens of times a day should look
Some of you don’t just read the news. You monitor it. You’re tracking competitors, watching for security disclosures, following regulatory changes, or covering a beat where being 30 minutes late means you missed the story. NewsBlur has alwa…
There are two questions I keep coming back to when I open my reader: what are other people reading right now, and what’s worth setting aside time for? Not what’s trending on social media or what an algorithm thinks will get clicks. What are…
When you share a story on NewsBlur, sometimes the whole article isn’t the point. You want to call out a specific paragraph, a key finding, a sentence that made you think. Until now, you’d have to manually copy-paste text into the comment bo…
The Intelligence Trainer has always worked with exact matches. You type a keyword, a tag, an author name, and NewsBlur filters on that literal string. Regex mode added flexibility, but you still need to know exactly what to type. If you wan…
NewsBlur has always had an API. Every feature in the web app, the iOS app, and the Android app runs through it. But APIs are for developers. Today I’m shipping three new ways to interact with your NewsBlur: a command-line tool that puts you…
A few weeks ago I shipped NewsBlur v14 for iOS and Mac, a major redesign of the Apple apps. Today, Android gets the same treatment. Every screen has been reworked: the feed list, the story list, the reading view, preferences, and menus. Alo…
NewsBlur’s Intelligence Trainer has always had a simple rule: thumbs up beats thumbs down. If a story matches both a liked and a disliked classifier, the story shows up in Focus. That works well most of the time. But sometimes you run into
If you’ve been following along lately, you know NewsBlur has been shipping feature after feature: story clustering, timed feed muting, the new site discovery panel, Ask AI, and more. I’m not slowing down, and I want people to know about it.…
Sometimes a feed gets noisy for a while. An election cycle, a product launch, a conference week. You don’t want to unsubscribe because you’ll want it back eventually, but you also don’t want 200 unread stories piling up every day. Until now…
Not every website has an RSS feed. Some never did. Some had one years ago and quietly removed it. And some sites have content that updates regularly but was never structured as a feed in the first place: job boards, product listings, event