Self hosting & feed management

Features

Added true self-hosting support

Serial has been “self hostable” for a while, but only through the libsql host Turso. Turso is a great service if you’re looking to run Serial at scale, but most people are not. You now can run Serial entirely locally, while still leveraging some of the performance benefits of libsql.

Check out the self hosting instructions to learn more!

In addition, there is now updated self-hosting documentation for a handful of platforms:

• Vercel (only hostable through Turso)
• Coolify (hostable through either).

Added a dedicated feed management page

Dealing with lots of feeds in Serial can be cumbersome, so there is now a much more efficient feed management page accessible through the feeds sidebar (or at this link). This page allows you to:

• Bulk remove any number of feeds
• Clear the categories from any number of feeds
• Edit the categories for any number of feeds

Improvements

• Better PWA support
  • While not perfect, this should allow for reading articles in gaps between service (e.g. while on a train)
• Updated toast location on mobile to avoid annoying UI overlap between the toast and bottom sheets
• Better data fetching/revalidation right after an .opml import
• Fixed an issue where account data would sometimes get orphaned on deletion