Surprise: Pinterest boards collect more than just images of your favorite One Direction member and recipes for autumn-themed desserts. Which is why the 5 million-plus articles pinned every day are getting a makeover.
Starting today, Pinterest is rolling out a new look for article pins, complete with more information like headline, author, story description, and link.
"So, when you find articles about things you're passionate about, such as science, travel, parenting or health, they're easier to save and organize on Pinterest," software engineer Jon Parise wrote in a blog post.
The social corkboard took a similar approach to products, recipes, and movies in May with a new branding function that provides more details about certain pins. Clothes and furniture, for example, now come with pricing and available locations for purchase, while recipe pins include cook time, ingredients, and serving sizes.
Article pins, meanwhile, will soon sport the same details that you would find on any RSS feed or news aggregator — photo, headline, source, summary, and "Read this on…" link. Before this update, it was simply left up to the pinner's discretion to include additional information about an article.
You can test out the new feature by pinning any of PCMag's articles, or follow Pinterest's suggestions for saving outdoors-y stories from Men's Journal, parenting advice from iVillage, travel items from Fodors.com, or political points from The New York Times.
Parise also pointed to A-listers' reading lists, including Arianna Huffington, Dr. Oz, Queen Latifah, and Alyssa Milano, as well as a number of writers who pin their own articles.
Pinterest, which joined the "Do Not Track" privacy parade this summer, recently rolled out a new price-drop notification system, which tells users when items they cover become more affordable. The iOS app also got a boost last month, with a new shortcut that lets users pin, like, and send content faster.
For more, see PCMag's review of Pinterest and the slideshow above. Also check out How to Use Pinterest for Beginners and PCMag's own Pinterest boards, as well as our list of 20 Tech Boards to Follow on Pinterst.