Widen Your Reading Portal.

A longer while ago our app could be considered as so-called “RSS-reader”. Although it allowed You to read the Web, it had been based on “RSS” which, however highly popular, hasn’t been applied on each and every website under the hood. There are still places not equipped with RSS, like, for example, some forums.

The point is that we haven’t wanted to carry technological limitations into our users reading experience. In other words, we would love to read all the Web within Handy - not only those who has mysterious “RSS” inside ;) . So we’ve introduced new ways of obtaining content. First, we began with Web Page - Links as alternative type of loading websites into Handy. If You’ve been interested in some non-RSS website, You could point out (via so-called regular expressions) which particular links contain the actual content You’d like to read in Handy - or You could simply leave the thing “as is” in case You can’t be bothered with more advanced stuff (taking a closer look on links’ nomenclature and constructing appropriate corresponding regex’es).

Yet Another Way of Obtaining the Content.

Now, it’s time to take the next step and widen Handy News Reader’s portal into the Web: we’re happy to introduce yet another approach of obtaining the content from non-RSS websites: Web Page - Divide. It may be especially useful in case of forum threads, i.e. longer pages with a bunch of posts, one after another. Handy can look at those posts and present them as separate articles, thanks to which You can read a whole forum thread as article list. Moreover, if a thread is split into several pages, Handy will follow and load all the rest. This way You can read complete forum threads within Handy, being notified on new posts :) .