What's new on Rooted: your outlets, your alerts, your week

Rooted opened two days before the midterms with 338 independent newsrooms. Since then we have shipped the changes readers asked for most. Here is what is new.

A Following tab

Home now has three tabs: Top stories, Following and Live feed. Following shows the outlets you chose, newest first, with a count of what each has published since your last visit. Swipe between the tabs on your phone, and pull down to refresh.

Notifications

Turn them on under You > Notifications. You will hear when a story you follow is picked up by more outlets, and when an outlet you set alerts for publishes. Never more than six a day.

Three new emails, all off until you turn them on

Your week arrives on Sundays: what you read and how far those stories went. Support what you read comes once a month with the three outlets you read most and their support links. This week near you comes on Saturdays with the week from your state's outlets.

Turn them on in the "You" page.

A clearer profile

"You" now has five tabs: Following, Notifications, Display, Account and Help.

Since you were last here

Come back after a few hours and a card at the top of Home sums up updates while you were offline: new pieces from your outlets, stories you follow that grew, what broke while you were away.

Smaller fixes

Amplify notes no longer need a hover. Votes available site-wide. Headlines and pictures open the story itself.

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