Instapaper Integration & Feed Discovery
Serial
January 16, 2026
Features
Added support for Instapaper
Accounts can be connected under the "Connections" section of user settings
Articles can be sent to Instapaper, which will attach the RSS item's content and mark the item as read
Feed discovery
Simple URLs can now be used for finding feeds, as Serial supports automatic feed discovery now.
If multiple feeds are found, you'll have the choice to pick the one you want
Nebula support
Feeds from Nebula can now be natively added. They will open in Nebula by default, as they can't be embedded
Improvements
Data fetching
Opening RSS items should feel snappier
YouTube videos should load a little faster (specifically, lowering the time needed before you can play them)
Much more precise data loading depending on the action
Better support for loading large feed lists in one view, reducing the chance that certain browsers will freeze
Many, many other tweaks
UI improvements
There were a lot of loose ends with the mobile experience for dialogs โ these should be resolved!
Many, many other little things
Other notes
Serial now uses Tanstack Start as a base framework instead of Next.js, which better reflects the more client-side identity of the app. This was holding up new feature work a little bit, so things should be much smoother sailing going forward.
In addition, there was a lot of cleanup done to data fetching (again) โ this is hopefully in the home stretch.
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