Smoother article previews and feed loading

This release focuses on keeping you oriented in the reader, whether you are opening article previews or waiting for a personalized feed to finish preparing. It also makes anonymous browsing more consistent, with better defaults and image fallbacks.

Reader and extension navigation

Article previews now preserve the background page you came from, including in the browser extensions. This means opening a preview from places like My feed, Read later, or search no longer replaces your underlying list with an unexpected screen, so you can return to exactly where you were.

Personal feeds that stay readable

While your personal feed is preparing or refreshing, you can keep reading a bounded list of recent articles instead of hitting an empty updating screen. When new recommendations are ready, you can choose Show updates to adopt them without your current list being rearranged.

Preparation states are clearer and more resilient, with actions like Check again and Browse latest when a wait is longer than expected or a transient failure occurs. Feed controls were also simplified and their behavior is now consistent across the web reader, the Chrome extension, and the Edge extension.

Better defaults for anonymous Latest feeds

Anonymous Latest feeds now default to showing articles. When an article does not have a usable OG image, the reader falls back to the source cover image so cards look more complete and consistent.

No schema migration is required.