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Very useful to get a quick look at all the trending stuff on Designer News and Hacker News all in one place, before I start my work everyday. Although, their mobile app is following the same simple and elegant ui for quick look at topics, I still use their old Desktop web version so I don't have to move links to my desktop browser when I find something I can use at work on Designer News.

A global news dashboard is a cool idea and this is a good first step, but naturally with hundreds of countries each with dozens of news stories it is overwhelming. Some ideas for improvement; 1. Sorting options: Alphabetic by name 2. Filtering: Quick filter by country name 3. Show source of each news item 4. Read indicators 5. Scrolling of each country list within scrolling of entire page is tricky 6. Pinning/favouriting countries to the top