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• 2025-03-16

  Imports & Shorts

  Serial now supports imports from users' two most popular feed formats: OPML and YouTube's subscriptions.csv.

  Notes

  This release brings the first support for bulk importing feeds into Serial! There is still more progress to be made (namely, in bringing in categories when importing) but this should be a great first step for many users.

  Features

  • Add support for importing subscriptions.csv files
    • This is the format provided by Google when exporting your subscriptions via Google Takeout.
  • Add support for importing OPML files
    • This is the most popular format used by RSS readers. If you follow YouTube channels in an RSS reader currently, this is likely the export format it provides.
  • Add experimental shorts filtering

• 2025-03-10

  Categories, Cookies, and Creativity

  After a long time away, Serial gets its first substantial contributions of the new year!

  Features

  • Add release notes (these very ones!)
    • Set up release note pages
    • Add notifier to let users know when new releases go out
  • Categories are here, for real!
    • Add and delete categories in the Feeds page
    • Filter videos with the category bar at the bottom of the page
      • Tip: The bottom categories will be grayed out if no videos match the selected filters. This should make it easy to stay on top of lots of categories!

  Improvements

  • Moved to a popover for theme editing and color mode selection as opposed to needing a fully separate page
  • Change embed URL from www.youtube.com to www.youtube-nocookie.com for better user privacy
  • Added refresh button to allow for fetching new videos without reloading the window
  • Clearer spacing and UI in feeds page
  • Data infrastructure simplification
  • General project maintenance

  Bugfixes

  • Fixed an issue where adding a feed by channel username would be flaky, resulting in one of the following:
    • An error adding feeds
    • Adding more than one feed