# New Features, October 2026 edition

By Tim, October 29, 2026 at 16:39 UTC.
Web version: https://downread.com/blog/new-features-october-2026-edition.html

There were huge changes to Downread's [home page](https://downread.com/blog/major-redesign-of-homepage-and-add-feed-page.html) and [search](https://downread.com/blog/new-quick-search-and-new-touch-screen-navigation.html). But not to be forgotten, October brought some smaller improvements as well. 

### Player for podcasts
![New embedded audio player](https://downread.com/static/blog-media/a56e7744-0652-4a3e-addb-cdb79b4b076d.webp)
Downread can be used to play podcasts. It's not perfect yet - you can't listen in the background. That may be added at a later time. For now, it's just an embedded player.


### Improved sign-up emails
![Improved emails](https://downread.com/static/blog-media/1250893a-e90c-4632-bcf6-bfeec8b3e6f0.webp)
The sign-up emails were, well, not that pretty. They should look much better now.

### Redesign of the feed tile
This is a bigger change: the feed tile has been repositioned and can always be brought back with a click on the header.
![Feed tile](https://downread.com/static/blog-media/8119edd4-0544-4cb0-9e9b-695ae8ea8890.webp)
Filters, limits and the new pause have been moved here, out of the toolbar.

### Summary View
A fourth viewing mode has also been added: summaries. You don't see the post as a whole, but only the first lines, with an option to expand the post. Images at the top are resized to a thumbnail. 
![Summaries](https://downread.com/static/blog-media/0cac8fe1-ecae-4793-9dd7-9869ac661189.webp)

You can also configure the number of lines to show according to your preferences:
![Configuring Summaries](https://downread.com/static/blog-media/f66758d5-d79d-427f-b0e6-d8ad800752a0.webp)


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From the Downread Blog (https://downread.com/blog/). Downread is a free RSS reader for people: https://downread.com/