Stories from Lanka
Behind-the-scenes on how we build LakFeed, why multilingual journalism matters, and what's happening in the Sri Lankan media landscape.
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LakFeed Is Now in Public Beta
After months of private testing with a small group of readers, LakFeed is now open to everyone. Here's what's in the beta, what's still being built, and how you can help shape what comes next.
Building LakFeed's Category System: Harder Than It Looks
Categorising news automatically across three languages — without a shared ontology, consistent source taxonomy, or reliable NLP for Sinhala and Tamil — turned out to be one of our more interesting engineering challenges.
How We Decide Which News Sources to Include
Not every outlet that publishes in Sri Lanka makes it into LakFeed. Here's our criteria for evaluating sources — and why we'd rather have fewer, better sources than a firehose of low-quality content.
Why Sinhala News Online Is Broken (And What We're Doing About It)
Most Sinhala-language news sites were built for a pre-smartphone era. Slow loads, garbled text, and desktop-only layouts leave millions of readers underserved. Here's our diagnosis — and what LakFeed does differently.
Building a Multilingual News Aggregator: What We Learned
Serving news in three scripts — Latin, Sinhala, and Tamil — sounds straightforward until you actually try it. Here's what we built and what surprised us along the way.
Sri Lanka's Media Landscape: Who's Covering the News?
A guide to the key news outlets in Sri Lanka — who they are, what they cover, and who owns them. Understanding your sources is the first step to understanding the news.
Introducing LakFeed — Sri Lankan News in Three Languages
We built LakFeed because we believe every Sri Lankan deserves access to reliable local news in the language they're most comfortable with. Here's our story.