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This release focuses on making the reader feel faster and more consistent, while adding a few visible quality-of-life updates. You will see new reading streak stats, fewer background requests while navigating, and smoother loading in long feeds.
Quality of life, with a faster feel
You can now see your current reading streak, best streak, and total reading days directly in the navbar. This makes it easier to track momentum without leaving what you are reading.
Browsing now does less work in the background, including fewer automatic page loads when you have not opened a link. You should notice a calmer experience when moving through feed tags, catalogs, filters, and navigation.
Long scrolling sessions should feel more reliable now. Likes and bookmarks keep loading by fetching missing engagement data in larger batches, so you are less likely to hit a point where actions stop appearing.
Dev Cards and topic logos, more consistent everywhere
Topic logos now load as smaller, optimized assets and stay consistent across cards, downloads, and other surfaces, with sensible fallbacks when variants are not available yet. This helps pages and exports look more uniform while reducing the amount of data needed to display logos.
Dev Cards now render more consistently between previews and shared cards, including text wrapping, sizing, and light-theme logo tiles. Embedded Dev Cards also load faster, can include available profile images on the first request, and will skip the promotion when the featured public card cannot be loaded.
The Dev Card popup now preserves the full bio and card proportions when it opens. The promo dialog layout and copy were also refined to better fit the full card.
Admin experience updates
Admin sign-in now matches the reader experience more closely, including clearer sign-in progress and direct provider options. This makes the login flow feel more familiar if you use both areas.
The admin dashboard now loads panels as you scroll and pauses polling for panels that are offscreen. This reduces unnecessary work and keeps the dashboard more responsive during longer sessions.
Topic preferences are now kept in sync across follow buttons, topic settings, and onboarding by using a shared preferences request. This helps ensure what you choose in one place is reflected everywhere.
The “Star us on GitHub” link has moved from the header to the sidebar. This keeps the header cleaner while still keeping the link easy to find.
The automatic welcome tour for guests has been removed, while keeping the Dev Card popup. This reduces interruptions for first-time visitors.