Serial

2025-05-17

Views, Views, Views

Serial gets the largest update in its recorded history, most notably adding views – a new way to customize your feed.

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Hey all! This is by far the biggest update for Serial since they've been tracked.

This update introduces views, a new way to customize your feed. Views allow you to combine a selection of filters (currently, time and categories) to create custom feeds for your Serial home page. This is the first step is finding ways to combat "content whiplash", or that feeling you get when you try to parse through the videos you watch to relax mixed into videos about current news or politics.

Features

• Adds views, a new way to organize your feeds
  • You can now add views in the sidebar
  • You can now edit views in the sidebar
  • You can now delete views in the sidebar
  • You can now reorganize views – by dragging – in the sidebar
• Improves the experience of working with categories
  • You can now add categories in the sidebar
    • Assigning categories to feeds with recent activity can happen here
  • You can now edit categories in the sidebar
    • Assigning categories to feeds with recent activity can happen here
  • You can now delete categories in the sidebar
• Improves the experience of working with feeds
  • Removes the dedicated feeds page
  • You can now edit feeds in the sidebar (#56)
    • Assigning categories now takes place here
  • You can now delete feeds in the sidebar (#56)
  • Feeds can now be searched through
  • Relvant feeds are now clearly denoted at the top of the list
• Adds PeerTube support (#62)

Improvements

• Adds the ability to go to a video's YouTube page from the watch page (#55)
• Adds an initial data fetching loader element
• Moves manual date and visibility filters into dropdowns (to make room for views)
• Improves the onboarding experience a touch

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