TL;DL has a new look. Inspired by classic broadsheet newspapers, the redesigned site puts episode summaries in a layout that’s calmer to read and easier to scan — with proper typography, a featured “lead” episode, and a cleaner detail page for every summary.
What’s new
- Broadsheet-style homepage. A featured lead episode at the top, then the rest of the week’s episodes laid out as numbered index entries. Episode count grows? Pagination kicks in at 20 per page.
- Redesigned episode pages. New typography (Fraunces + Inter Tight + JetBrains Mono), a generated deck and pull quote on every episode, links out to the podcast’s website and Apple Podcasts, and a “More from this podcast” section.
- Search and tag browsing. Search the homepage with
?q=..., click any tag to see every episode with that tag, or browse the full tag and podcast directories. - Polished mobile and tablet layouts. Episode rows stack their metadata neatly on smaller screens. Tags wrap onto their own row. Pull quotes tighten up.
- Subscribe, preferences, and request flows live in the new design. No more jarring jump from the new site into the old forms.
- Restored social previews. Favicon, Open Graph, and Twitter Card tags are back, so links shared on social and in chat apps look right again.
Fixes
- iPad portrait layout no longer cuts off episode titles — the index now collapses to the simpler mobile-style row at tablet widths too.
- Masthead date shows the correct day in Pacific time instead of drifting based on the reader’s timezone.
- Episode summaries no longer show a duplicate title at the top — the redundant first heading is now stripped automatically.
- Editorial metadata (deck and pull quote) generation now retries cleanly on transient failures instead of giving up on the first error.