The Icebox is your personal space to store articles, videos, and social posts for later. Whenever you open a peek (the name of the little box that comes up when you click on an item in your scoop) you’ll see a snowflake icon. Clicking once on that will add it to The Icebox. After that, at any time you can click the snowflake icon at the top of your scoop to see all your saved items. ...
Not burying the lede: Today is the Friends and Family launch of something that we have been working on for a while. It is called Scoopy, a new take on rss news readers. Now that we have the big news out of the way I’d like to go into story time, and then some more information. The Beginning A little less than three years ago I sent a post out to Flipboard on Mastodon asking them if they had any plans to make a “Flipboard Premium” or similar. The idea was that I enjoyed the unique way Flipboard presented my RSS feed, but they were completely powered by ads and it essentially ruined the service (a tale which we hear far to often about otherwise great products). After not getting any response at all, less than a month later I started to test the waters to find out if I was capable of building what I wanted myself. ...