Instapaper Integration & Feed Discovery

Features

Added support for Instapaper

• Accounts can be connected under the “Connections” section of user settings
• Articles can be sent to Instapaper, which will attach the RSS item’s content and mark the item as read

Feed discovery

• Simple URLs can now be used for finding feeds, as Serial supports automatic feed discovery now.
• If multiple feeds are found, you’ll have the choice to pick the one you want

Nebula support

• Feeds from Nebula can now be natively added. They will open in Nebula by default, as they can’t be embedded

Improvements

Data fetching

• Opening RSS items should feel snappier
• YouTube videos should load a little faster (specifically, lowering the time needed before you can play them)
• Much more precise data loading depending on the action
• Better support for loading large feed lists in one view, reducing the chance that certain browsers will freeze
• Many, many other tweaks

UI improvements

• There were a lot of loose ends with the mobile experience for dialogs – these should be resolved!
• Many, many other little things

Other notes

Serial now uses Tanstack Start as a base framework instead of Next.js, which better reflects the more client-side identity of the app. This was holding up new feature work a little bit, so things should be much smoother sailing going forward.

In addition, there was a lot of cleanup done to data fetching (again) – this is hopefully in the home stretch.