Matter

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.

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! 👊

Thanks for shipping @matter.

"I just always go back to Matter."

Excellent new Words That Matter with guest curator @krishnanrohit words.getmatter.com/p/rohit-krishn…

The new share sheet for @matter is great! Faster. Smarter. Great job, Matter team.

PSA: From now on, if you want to save a link referenced in an X post, just save the post directly from your feed!

@tylerwince x.com/benspringwater…

Everybody set your alarms. ⏰