New in Reader: Combined Cards

For those who’ve ever adopted a often updating web site in Reader, you might have observed an issue. When certainly one of your adopted websites goes on a posting streak, it can simply overwhelm your stream, inflicting you to overlook posts from much less frequent websites.

At this time we launched a brand new function to alleviate this downside: Mixed Playing cards. Now, when a web site you comply with will get prolific, we’ll mix these posts right into a single card — offered the posts are all from the identical day and uninterrupted by posts from different websites.

Right here’s a current instance from Time Magazine. (Do you know you possibly can comply with Time in Reader? You can!) Earlier than on the left, after on the correct.

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For Writers: For those who put up as soon as a day, your posts won’t ever be mixed in Reader. For those who put up greater than as soon as a day, it’s doable your posts will probably be mixed for some readers and never others — it depends upon what number of different websites they comply with and once they put up. Posts will solely be mixed in the event that they’re uninterrupted by different posts.

For Readers: Your Adopted Websites stream nonetheless reveals all of the posts from the websites you comply with, in precisely the identical order. The one factor that’s modified is that if a web site posts a string of recent posts, we’ll mix them into one card in order that they take up much less vertical area.

We hope this transformation makes Reader extra nice to make use of, and helps you are feeling snug following extra often updating websites. For those who’d like some recommendations, listed below are some nice excessive frequency websites we advocate: Fortune, People, Laughing SquidUproxxThe Sports DailyHeavy, TechCrunchBlack America Web, and BGR. Keep in mind to click on the “Observe” hyperlink on the prime of the web page so as to add it to your Reader.

WordPress.com members can go to Reader in the usual spot. Not a member but? Join us. And thanks, as at all times, for being a part of the WordPress.com group.

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