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Pocket is shutting down. All respect to the pioneer of read-later apps. 🫡 We're here for the long haul and welcome displaced Pocket users seeking a new home. 1. Matter's core read-later service is FREE forever. 2. Pocket users get 50% off 1-yr Premium. 3. Matter is iOS-focused (no Android). Email ben@getmatter.com for discount link.

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“Fun is underrated. The best and most creative work comes from a root of joy and excitement. You can feel this in your body.”

@varadmaniyar @timourxyz Pretty soon

@timourxyz @matter CLI when?

This is super cool! I wanted to make my own graph visualization of my Readwise notes, but with a timeline of when they were added. It shows the list form on the right side and the semantic links between the notes in the graph.

"I strongly recommend listening to this and not reading the transcript; Kevin Kelly narrates the story that led to his conversion to Christianity. Probably the most moving and beautiful short essay I’ve ever listened to." —@nabeelqu in today's issue of Words That Matter thisamericanlife.org/50/shoulda-bee… by @kevin2kelly

Changelog 3/10-3/17 New • Pinch-to-zoom on article images (iOS) — Pinch any image in an article to pop it out over the page with a dimmed background. Pan and zoom freely, then shrink or tap to dismiss. Smooth spring animations throughout. • Tag sort options (iOS) — Sort your tags by Most Recent, Most Articles, or A to Z from the Search tab. Your preference is remembered across sessions. Bug Fixes • Paywalled articles disappearing from Inbox — Articles from sites with paywalls (e.g., The Verge) were incorrectly marked as subscription-only and filtered out of Inbox feeds. Fixed across all ingestion paths, and affected content has been restored. • Archiving could be undone by a race condition — When archiving from the Inbox, a simultaneous reading-progress save could revert the article back to unsaved. Fixed so history updates never overwrite intentional library state changes. • Duplicate account creation — A race condition during signup could create duplicate accounts. Added atomic get-or-create handling. • iPad layout fixes — Fixed image/caption layout on landscape iPad and a reader sheet configuration issue. • Non-English YouTube transcripts — Videos in languages other than English now get transcripts (previously only English was fetched). • Cloudflare challenge pages saved as articles — Articles blocked by Cloudflare “Just a moment…” pages were being saved with bad titles. Now detected and retried, and stale challenge-page titles are overwritten on re-extraction. Parsing Fixes ~20 site-specific extraction fixes deployed this week, including: HBR.org — Fixed browser fetch (wrong domain), restored author names, preserved formatted article content instead of replacing with plain text WSJ — Photo captions are now properly separated from article text antirez.com — Fixed article body extraction from

 tags and author detection

formula1.com — Added browser fetch for Next.js server-rendered articles

leaflet.pub — AT Protocol handles (@user.bsky.social) no longer disappear from articles

commentary.org — Removed sidebar and related-article bylines that contaminated author extraction

rfd.shared.oxide.computer — Clean title extraction without breadcrumb suffixes

tabletmag.com — Added proxy support to bypass Cloudflare blocking

nickcammarata.com — Added browser fetch for JavaScript SPA

ajc.com ePaper — Article URLs from the iPad app no longer all resolve to the same content

mondediplo.com — Generic paywall detection now catches id="paywall" on any domain

Habit Grid, now in Halo.

@CquexC 🙏

@matter Awesome, you finally made the way up to the breast reader app off the f**** UNIVERSE 🇩🇪 PS. German was so terrible sounding 🤪

Matter now supports text to speech across 14 new languages: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Happy listening!

Changelog Mar 2-9 Text to speech improvements • TTS playback is now more reliable - audio recovers gracefully from download interruptions instead of hanging. • Fixed an issue where the highlight position could jump unexpectedly during listen mode. • Paragraph pauses now scale more naturally with reading speed. • Bluetooth playback controls (play/pause, skip) now work reliably on all Bluetooth devices, not just Apple ones. • Unrecognized TTS voices now gracefully fall back to your default voice instead of failing. • Fixed playback timing and voice switching on the web player. • Fixed the web TTS player sometimes not appearing or seeking to the wrong position. Reading Experience • Refreshing your inbox no longer loses your scroll position. • Navigating from your Notebook to a highlight now reuses the already-open article instead of opening a duplicate. • Fixed a double-tap issue on iOS that could prevent the toolbar from appearing. Article Parsing Improved content extraction and formatting for 20+ sites, including: • X/Twitter: Embedded images now appear in both regular tweets and longform articles. Fixed gaps in embedded link detection. • BBC: Fixed an issue where only the first paragraph was extracted. • Substack: Cleaned up embedded cross-post preview blocks. • Paul Graham’s essays: Removed navigation images that were appearing in article content. • Anthropic[dot]com: Stripped “Related content” footers and category tags. • NYT: Removed newsletter signup CTAs. Fixed false paywall detection on video, podcast, and interactive pages. • The Guardian: Stripped rich-link preview figures from article body. • Additional fixes for every .to, The Verge (Quick Posts), New Republic, Sapiens, National Review, AppleInsider, Longreads, and more. Email & Newsletters • AI summaries now work for paywalled email newsletters. • Fixed false paywall detection on emails with empty or hidden paywall elements. • Improved deduplication so the same newsletter content isn’t saved twice. • Added http://ben-evans[dot]com to recognized newsletter domains. Integrations & Sync • Reconnecting Readwise now automatically retries any annotations that previously failed to sync. • Stuck YouTube caption transcripts are now automatically recovered. • RSS feeds: fixed an issue where private Stratechery feeds could fail, and improved fallback when canonical URLs don’t match. Other Fixes • Fixed Apple Sign In redirect on the web app. • CSV imports now handle large libraries more gracefully with extended time limits.

The Third Chair, another great one from @phokarlsson this made me teary eyed, short and simple, but therein lies its power. hat tip to @sariazout for recommending it in her words that @matter henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/third-chair

I look forward to reading Words that Matter every week and am honored to be featured in today’s issue

New issue of Words That Matter feature guest curator @sariazout ! Now in your inbox.

@oscarventura Hey Oscar, really sorry about that! Can you send an email to hello@getmatter.app? We'll get it sorted for you.

@matter I've been trying to log in since yesterday, but I haven't received any emails. Have we considered enabling passwords, maybe?

@universeinanegg Ari, we're trying to debug your case but we can't find you in our system by name. Mind sending an email to hello@getmatter.app so we can collect more information and figure out what's going on?

@matter TTS has been down for nearly 24 hours, what gives?

Dark @matter in the wild May need to ask @LGAjots to model 😎

@marcbienaime Got you! 👊

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