What we’re hearing about the new homepage

A striking development has emerged in artificial intelligence. We’ve been reading your feedback on the new homepage. The kind and encouraging comments, the brutal ones, the “actually this rules,” the “please undo this immediately,” the bug reports, the feature ideas, and yes, the eternal request for dark mode. A lot of you took the time to share detailed, thoughtful reactions right after launch, and that kind of feedback is useful.

It helps us understand where the experience is landing or missing the mark, spot issues and friction, and ultimately sort that feedback into a few buckets. We want to be open and transparent with you about how we’re looking at those buckets of feedback. Bucket 1: Yes, we should fix that.

Technical Details

Some feedback points to things we should clearly fix or smooth out, like bugs and rough edges. Feedback that falls into this bucket: The scrollbar presence on the feed (✅ Fixed) Adding “ Some feedback points to things worth exploring further. These are repeated requests that may reflect a broader need or pain point, even if the exact proposed solution is not the one we ultimately pursue.

Feedback that falls into this bucket: How the Latest feed is presented and engaged with, especially for those of you who love the pure revchron feed (which Latest is). We are actively working on this. Dates on stories in curated story sets.

Removing them was intentional so we could more easily bring older stories back to the forefront, especially when they can add color and context to a timely topic. But we hear the frustration here and are thinking about how to address the underlying pain point. Marking a story as read vs.

Industry Implications

This is a recurring request and speaks to a broader need for more personalized homepage experiences. That’s something we’re actively planning for, even if this exact feature isn’t currently on the roadmap. Bucket 3: Not right now.

Some feedback falls into the category of ideas we’re not planning to take on right now. Not because the feedback is bad, but because we have to be deliberate about what we can support. Feedback that falls into this bucket: Free-to-Read and Subscriber Perks sections.

We’ve deprecated these sections for now. We’ll revisit if it makes sense down the road. We’ve seen a lot of strong opinions on combining curated stories with the firehose feed.

This advance offers important signals about the future of the sector, and the tech world is watching closely.