Updates September 30: UI/UX

UI/UX improvements - showing content state

The content state is now represented by distinct colors. The inbox is blue, library green, and the archive purple. This is implemented throughout the whole application, and represents the flow of content.

First, content arrives in the inbox. There you curate it by either bookmarking or archiving. Bookmarked content shows up in the library, where you can archive content after you read it. In the end, all content lands in the archive.

The content items now show a line with a gradient. It represents the flow of content as well. Starting with blue (inbox), going to green (library), and ending with purple (archive). On the line you have buttons to move the content to the respective state. The dot on the line indicates the current state of the item, and moves when you change the state.

There is now also an Archive page. Before that all content could be found via the search page, but the archive page makes it clearer where archived content is.

Sorting by bookmarked and archived dates

There are now additional fields available for sorting. Before, only date added (when the article was added to your inbox) and date published (when the article was published by the author) were available.

Now it's also possible to sort the library by date bookmarked, and the archive by date archived. They are also the default sorting for the respective pages.

Improvement: View all articles of RSS feeds

RSS feeds usually only contain the last 10 or 20 items. If you subscribe today, you only get the latest 10 items, and are missing all that were published before that.

Lighthouse now shows all items that are stored in its database, regardless when you subscribed.

You can view them by going to Manage subscriptions, and then to the detail page of an RSS subscription. There you can add content to your library.

Improvement: Feed and newsletter subscription

The subscribe pages for subscribing to feeds and newsletters are now structured much better. They are easier to use now, without losing any capabilities.

Improvement: RSS Feed Finder

The Lighthouse Feed Finder now finds even more RSS URLs from websites. Most notably, Reddit feeds are now properly retrieved.