While the news is fed automatically into Humanitarian News, I am continuously improving and expanding the site, and its feeds. Here are the latest updates and changes on Humanitarian News:

(New functionality is marked with )

May 9 2012:
While browsing any of the section overviews (Aid News, NonProfit News,..), you don't have to click to go to the next page anymore. When you scroll to the end of the page, the next 20 posts are loaded automatically. With thanks to our friends at Macaroni Bros!

May 8 2012:
Humanitarian News is now easier to browse from mobile devices. A new mobile theme makes it easier and faster to browse using smart phones or tablets. With thanks to our friends at Macaroni Bros!

Jan 8 2012:
Changed the footer for single posts, making the link to the original post more obvious.
Changed the social bookmarking widgets.
Put a (More) link in the post summary pages, so it is more obvious where to click if you want to read the full post :)

Dec 19 2011:
Solved an RSS formatting bug. All RSS feeds should now display properly, showing plain text only.

Dec 18 2011:
Summarized all tools we offer on one page

Oct 30 2011:
- Rewrote the aggregator for nonprofitblogs, so we miss less blog updates.
- Solved a bug with the Google+ share button (showed the wrong number of shares)

Oct 10 2011:
Added social bookmarking icons for each article.

Sept 25 2011:
Upgraded the server to cope with the increased traffic on the site.

July 27 2011:
The customized RSS feeds generated by the search function now give the correct date and time. Yey!! (Tnx to my friends at Macaroni Bros)

June 15 2011:
A limited number of AidNews items showed the wrong content in the body of the post. Is now resolved for new items.

April 28 2011:
The issue of the repeated crashes of the SOLR search engine is now resolved, thanks -once again- to The Macaroni Bros

April 12 2011:
You can now follow the latest articles on Humanitarian News via our Facebook pages.

March 27 2011:
Once per day, we publish a digest of our tweets presented in a magazine layout. If you want to receive the Tweet digest via email, click on the "Subscribe" button on the digest.

Feb 15 2011:
Humanitarian News' sister sites are now styled so you can follow the latest news easier on your mobile phone. Check out: AidNews, AidResources, News On Green, AidBlogs and The NonProfit Blogs.

Dec 1 2010:
SOLR, the search engine crashed about once a week, so Andrea and Fabio have made a script to automatically restart the engine when it happens.

October 1 2010:
We are now getting 60 visitors per minute, which stressed the server, and caused a regular crash of the search engine. Andrea tweaked the system parameters and we doubled the memory and processor speed of the server. Let me know if there are any more problems.

September 26 2010:
- We moved Humanitarian News to a new server. This should boost the performance, and open the site to add loads of new functionality later on. With thanks to Fabio and Andrea from The Macaroni Bros for their hard work!
- During the process of moving to a different server between Sept 22-26, there are some posts which were lost in translation. Some "Page not Found" errors are to be expected for posts in that period.
As we moved, we implemented a whole new search and indexing engine, called SOLR. This will index and retrieve searches much faster, and allows people to generate customized RSS feeds from search results. This is a functionality we had before, but due to performance reasons, had to disable it back in June.

August 11 2010:
I created different Twitter accounts, broadcasting updates in a lower volume.

June 20 2010:
I added a long list of excellent new sites to the source list. Humanitarian News now retrieves the last articles from 1,035 different sources.

June 10 2010:
FINALLY I found and solved the bug in the search, which no longer returned the most recent results first. That bug also resulted in the RSS feeds on searches (OPENSEARCH) no longer returning recent posts.
SOLVED! (thanks Emanuele!)

May 16 2010:
A while ago, I enabled a feature for users at the bottom of the post how many times a post was read. It also enabled me to show the daily most read posts at the bottom of each page. Unfortunately that seems to slow down the site too much, so I had to disable it.
The site should load faster now.

May 12 2010:
- The site was hacked again on May 12, but the problem was cured within a few hours.

May 5 2010:
- The site was hacked again on May 1, but the problem was cured within a few hours.
- I also changed the way new articles are imported, to ensure the site is updated faster. As stands at the moment, every 10 minutes, over 850 sources are polled for updates.

April 25 2010:
The site was hacked last night, and the home page was redirected to another website. All was repaired. If you experience any erratic behaviour, please email me.

Jan 18 2010:
I changed the search settings, so the most recent articles will appear first.

Jan 10 2010:
I now keep track of the number of articles we collect, and publish them in a monthly updated file.
- over 100 new blogs and websites have been added to the feeds.

Dec 26 2009:
Humanitarian News got a new layout and finally starts to resemble "a real webpage". As of now, I also highlight "featured articles" (in the grey boxes) and "site highlights" (in the red boxes).

Dec 18 2009:
I updated the feeds & subscriptions section with a description how to create Email alerts only for the latest posts of your interest.

Dec 14 2009:
I rationalized all URLs on this site:
aidnews is now: www.humanitariannews.org/aidnews with the RSS: /aidnews/feed
aidworker blogs: www.humanitariannews.org/aidworkerblogs with RSS: /aidworkerblogs/feed
nonprofitnews: www.humanitariannews.org/nonprofitnews with RSS: /nonprofitnews/feed
nonprofitblogs: www.humanitariannews.org/nonprofitblogs with RSS: /nonprofitblogs/feed
greennews: www.humanitariannews.org/greennews with RSS: /greennews/feed
the overall RSS feed is now www.humanitariannews.org/feed
all new posts now have the format "/date/title" instead of "/blog/date/title"
For consistency's sake, I retained all old URLs

Dec 6 2009:
About 50 new NonProfitBlogs were added in the past month. AidNews, AidBlogs, GreenNews sources were updated too.

Oct 28 2009:
I modified the search algorithm to show the most recent articles show first, rather than the articles which contain the keyword the most.

Oct 25 2009:
- Added a dozen new sources to NonProfitBlogs, and Green News.
- A problem caused the site to update only every few hours at peak times. Is now solved.

Oct 20 2009:
You can now generate your own RSS feed based on your search criteria! Check out the explanation on the "Subscriptions" page

Oct 12 2009:
Do you have a blog or website? I made some News widgets to display the latest updates of Humanitarian News on your site.

Oct 6 2009:
- Added a dozen more nonprofit blogs. A total of 345 nonprofit blog feeds are now imported into Humanitarian News.
- There was a problem with the URLs pointing to pages which had non-readable characters, generating "Page not found" errors. Is solved now.

Oct 2 2009:
September was the first full month Humanitarian News was active. In our first month, we fetched and stored 13,000 articles from +- 600 different nonprofit sources.

Sept 19 2009:
- In the past week, I added more sources for Green News (+20), Nonprofit Blogs (+50), Aidworkers (+4) and Aidnews (+3).
- I tuned the input fetcher for new articles. The site now gets updated every 30 15 minutes.

Sept 13 2009:
I added more sources for Green News. A total of 60 different feeds are now imported for the latest on the environment.

Sept 12 2009:
We now feature selective RSS feeds and Email subscriptions.

Sept 11 2009:
- The excessive '404 Page Not Found' errors should be solved now. Each time a feed was updated, a new URL was created and the old one was deleted. (ooops)
- All posts as of today should have correct URLs, errors might still occur when trying to access posts published before Sept 11 2009.