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Your favourite app just lost half of its weight, mainly by better code packaging and dropping dependencies on old libraries. In other words: faster page loads! The numbers: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fresh page load: 1,9MB → 0.9MB Asset data updates (every 5 minutes): 19kB → 3,8kB -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The full list of

Use the recently added calendar to jump to specific days, months or years.

For two months, I've been creating small "On this day in Ethereum" posts: small snippets listing the most relevant events in Ethereum for a specific day in 2016, '17 and '18, like the one for today.

Time to improve the selection of news events.

pwr.news lacks snappiness. It is slow to load, slow to use and slow to respond. This has been the most common comment about the app over the last months. Up until now! Read on for a little more background and speed improvements.

photo by Nick Hillier [https://unsplash.com/photos/yD5rv8_WzxA]You scrolled past a big, beautiful, useless image, just to be told that the title says it all: select BTC or ETH as base pairs in the dropdown on the left in the app. Oh, title doesn't say all... VET