Sections page should run faster now...

We are pushing out an update and migrating user data as well, which should resolve the issue for all users soon.

Update being rolled out tonight

Tonight we will roll out an update making the "sections" page faster and based on articles in your "inbox" rather than just general articles for a section.

We are also planning out an app update on iOS which should let you log-in without going through any of the social login mechanisms.

Yes we know the sections page is slow

We are currently working on a long term solution to fix the slowness in this page as well as make it more personalized.

Minor bug fixes posted to site

We found some bugs in the app which has been fixed as of now. The issue where some pages would not load new articles has been fixed.

Site Update Tonight

The site will be updated to show a categories section instead of real-time news to make it more easier to discover interesting content. I know right now it is currently boring to read some of the news especially because nothing much is happening. We are exploring ways to surface interesting content from our extensive database in an easier manner. Real-time news will still be there, but it will be inside the "More" area. We could show articles based on your preferences which we glean from your reading habits - however we have shied away from doing that so far because by the very nature of the medium, you might be very interested in reading a news article which is much different from your normal reading habits. This is not like listening to music or reading a book where you like a certain kind of content. Tomorrow, a totally new thing might come out there and it may be outside your current preferences or likings.

Categories are better than news sources because they aggregate news from different sources. We might replace the Today section with Sources, so you can dig into your favorite site in particular. However note that your inboxes are separate only for popular and real-time news - this means that other sections can show you the same stuff the next day if nothing much has changed. It is only within the popular and real-time news which acts as inboxes - you read the news - it goes away forever.

This may not be such a bad thing because the other pages would let you come back and see an article later as well. There are so many things which can be done to the site experience, we are constantly thinking of ways to improve the overall experience. Feel free to connect with us on our Facebook page and leave comments, suggestions and feedback.

All Issues resolved as of now

After working relentlessly over the past few nights, we have finally fixed the frustrating issue where new articles were not getting loaded when you used the load more articles button. Next we will be working on adding more functionality like categories and search in the new interface.

Remember, we are constantly testing and updating the app so we know about the issues and we are fixing them asap.

Fixing site outage issue - All Issues resolved as of now

We detected a site outage today evening. We are currently working on fixing it ASAP.

[Update] Outage is fixed.