Facebook isn’t shy about its plans to court media companies in order to bring more news and Live Video content to its service. One of its features aimed at publishers is Instant Articles: Fast-loading mobile pages that can be viewed within Facebook.
On Wednesday, the company announced its latest initiative to help expand upon the publishing tool. Facebook is currently testing a new feature that allows select media outlets to combine multiple Instant Articles into one post. Viewers with the latest version of its iOS and Android apps to will be able to access the posts from the News Feed and publisher’s pages, which they can then scroll through and read.
The update is reminiscent of the curation features offered by Twitter (Moments) and Snapchat (Discover). Like the former, publishers must select multiple items to bundle together in one package with a cover image or video.
Last month, it was revealed that Facebook was reportedly planning a Snapchat Discover clone. However, Snap’s tool — consisting of a series of channels devoted to various media partners that produce daily multimedia content dubbed “episodes” — has its own section within the visual messaging app. Then again, there’s nothing stopping Facebook from expanding upon Instant Articles in the same vein. After all, publishers already have the ability to add visual content to their mobile pages (including 360 photos and video).
It will be interesting to see whether a Discover-style version of Instant Articles does materialize, and whether Facebook decides to keep it on its flagship platform or make it exclusive to Messenger — which is increasingly starting to resemble Snapchat.
For now, all Facebook has revealed is that the ability to share multiple articles in one post is currently being tested with a number of global media partners. Facebook users can expect to see the feature being adopted by Bild, BuzzFeed, El Pais, Fox News, Hindustan Times, India Times, Refinery29, The Sun, USA Today, and The Washington Post. Whether or not Facebook decides to make the update available to its wider community (as Twitter did with Moments) remains to be seen.
“As we better understand the value this experience provides people and publishers, we look forward to working with more of our partners to help shape the future direction of this experience,” the company wrote in its blog post.
Discord is trying to push more visibility on the internet for some of its biggest communities, and there's a good chance your messages could end up in a Google Search. The platform is preparing to make conversations from certain public servers searchable on the web, so there's a privacy setting you might want to check before the rollout begins.
According to Discord's official announcement, the changes will roll out in two stages. Starting November 16, qualifying servers will have public web pages featuring automated summaries of conversations. By mid-December, individual messages from eligible public channels could also appear word-for-word in Google and other search engines.
You just opened X and started typing your thoughts. Imagine the jump scare when a hand suddenly pops up on your screen, pointing at the promote button. It doesn’t say a word and simply points. For a growing number of X users, this isn’t a made-up scenario but something they have been seeing since yesterday, and very few of them are amused.
Most of us have learned to tune out the usual in-app upsells, whether it’s a glowing upgrade banner or a pop-up about a premium plan. A floating hand hovering over your draft is much harder to ignore, and that’s probably the whole point.
Scroll through any app for five minutes, and you’ll find someone maxxing something. Their skin, their sleep, their protein intake, even their Friday night on the couch. That little suffix has been everywhere this year, and now it has a trophy to show for it. In a recent announcement, Dictionary.com named maxxing its 2026 Word of the Year.
What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?