Your Home Feed
Your home feed is the first thing you see when you open eNepali — a single, personalized stream that brings together organizations near you, Nepali and world news, and more, arranged especially for you. This page explains what's in it, how the mix is chosen, and how to keep it fresh.
What the home feed is
When you open eNepali on the web at enepali.com or in the mobile app, you land on your home feed. It's designed to feel like your own corner of the Nepali community: local businesses and organizations, timely news from Nepal and around the world, and the posts, photos, products, and events those organizations share.
You don't need an account to browse it. Guests can read and explore right away. Signing in unlocks following, commenting, messaging, and a feed that learns more about what you care about.
The two main tabs
At the top of the feed you'll find tabs that let you choose what kind of content to see:
- Organizations — businesses, community groups, and other organizations, along with the posts, photos, products, and updates they share.
- News — Nepali and world news, gathered and grouped for you.
Tap or click a tab to switch between them. The tab you're viewing stays highlighted.
If you're already on a tab and tap or click it again, the feed scrolls back to the top — and if you're already at the top, it refreshes with the latest content. It's the quickest way to get back to fresh items after scrolling for a while.
Depending on your app version and where you are, you may also see an Events tab that shows upcoming events, ranked with the ones nearest to you first. If you don't see it, that's normal — the two tabs above are the core of your feed.
The kinds of content you'll see
Your feed isn't just one type of thing. As you scroll, you'll come across several kinds of cards mixed together:
- News articles — single stories, and sometimes a lead story with related coverage grouped beneath it.
- Organizations — businesses and community groups you might want to follow, often showing how far away they are from you.
- Posts — updates and announcements shared by organizations.
- Products — items and offerings from local businesses, sometimes grouped into a collection.
- Photo galleries — swipeable sets of images shared by organizations.
Tap or click any card to open the full story, organization page, product, or gallery.
"For You" — how your feed is personalized
Your feed is put together for you rather than shown to everyone in the same order. eNepali arranges it using signals like:
- Where you are — nearby organizations and locally relevant news are lifted higher.
- What you follow — organizations and topics you follow show up more often (available once you sign in).
- What you engage with — the things you open, like, comment on, or bookmark help shape what you see next.
Because of this, no two people's feeds look exactly the same, and yours will keep adapting as you use eNepali.
Nearby content and distances
Location plays a big role, especially on the Organizations tab. Organizations closer to you generally appear first, and many organization cards show the distance from where you are.
To get the most relevant nearby results, eNepali needs a sense of where you are:
- On mobile, the app may ask for location permission the first time you open it. Allowing it gives you the most accurate nearby results and distances.
- If you skip or deny location, eNepali still works — it makes a reasonable guess from your connection so you're not stuck waiting, then sharpens the results if you enable location later.
On the mobile app, location is handled by your phone's system permission prompt, and you can turn it on at any time. On the website, your browser controls location access, and eNepali falls back to an approximate location from your connection if it isn't shared. Either way, allowing location gives you closer, more relevant results.
Filtering the News tab
When you're on the News tab, a row of filter buttons appears so you can narrow what you read:
- All — everything, mixed together.
- Nepal — news from Nepal.
- Intl — international news.
- A Local (or country-specific, such as USA) option appears once eNepali knows your location, so you can focus on news close to home.
Tap or click a filter to switch. If only one option applies to you, the filter row is hidden to keep things simple.
The Local and country-specific news options only appear once eNepali has worked out where you are. On the News tab you may see a small location prompt inviting you to turn on location — tapping Enable unlocks news closer to you.
Following organizations
Following is how you tell eNepali what you want more of. When you follow an organization, its updates, products, and events get a better chance of appearing in your feed, and you can be notified about what it shares.
To follow organizations, you'll need to be signed in. As a guest on the website, you'll see a friendly banner at the top of the feed:
Join eNepali — sign in to follow organizations, comment, and message.
Use the Sign in link in that banner (or the login option) to start following and to get a feed that's more tailored to you. You can dismiss the banner with the close (×) button if you'd rather keep browsing as a guest.
Refreshing your feed
Your feed doesn't sit still — you can pull in the newest content whenever you like.
On mobile
- Make sure you're at the top of the feed.
- Pull the list down and release.
- A spinner appears at the top while eNepali fetches the latest, then the feed updates in place.
The app also refreshes on its own in a couple of helpful moments — for example, when you return to eNepali after having it in the background for a while, so you come back to fresh content instead of a stale list.
On the web
- On a touchscreen, pull the feed down from the top and release. As you drag you'll see Pull to refresh, then Release to refresh, followed by Refreshing… while it updates.
- On any screen wide enough, a refresh button (a circular arrow) sits next to the tabs — click it to reload the current tab. It spins while refreshing.
- As mentioned above, clicking the tab you're already on will also scroll to the top and refresh.
The spinning refresh button beside the tabs appears on wider web screens, which is the main way to refresh on a desktop with a mouse. On phones and in the mobile app, pull-to-refresh is the main way to update the list.
Here's how a refresh flows:
Why the mix keeps changing
It's normal for your feed to look different from one visit to the next. The order and blend are recalculated each time based on things like:
- Your location — as it becomes known or changes, nearby content shifts.
- What's new — fresh news and organization updates move things around.
- What you've been doing — following, liking, commenting, and bookmarking nudge future results.
- A refresh — pulling to refresh deliberately pulls in a new mix.
This is by design: the feed is meant to stay lively and relevant rather than showing the same list every time.
Because the mix changes, an item can move as the feed updates. If you find something you want to keep, bookmark it so you can always get back to it from your saved items.
If the feed looks empty or won't load
- "No organizations in your feed yet." or "No news in your feed yet." — there isn't anything to show for that tab right now. Try switching tabs, changing a news filter, or refreshing. Enabling location often helps the Organizations tab fill in nearby results.
- Something went wrong — if the feed can't load, you'll see a short message with a Try again button. Tap or click it to retry.
The mobile app can show you a recently saved copy of your feed when you're offline, with a small banner ("You're offline. Showing saved posts.") letting you know it's a cached version. Refreshing is paused until you're back online. The website needs a live connection to load the feed.
Quick reference
- Two tabs: Organizations and News (an Events tab may also appear).
- News filters: All, Nepal, Intl, and Local/your-country when location is known.
- Refresh: on mobile, pull down to refresh; on web, use the refresh button, re-tap the current tab, or pull down on a touchscreen.
- Personalization: driven by your location, who you follow, and what you engage with — sign in for the fullest experience.
- Bookmarks: save anything you want to find again, since the mix changes over time.