1. Signing in
Sign in from the header or the Profile page. You can register with email & password, or use a social/SSO login if enabled. After signing in, the header shows your account — open Profile to manage everything below.
2. Profile — what you can change
- Name — the display name shown next to your comments and posts.
- Locale / language — your preferred site language (Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, English).
- Theme — light or dark appearance.
- My City — your city, used to prioritise local news for you.
- Video run / playback preferences — how videos behave when you open them.
- Hide Categories — removes the section rail from the top of the page on a phone.
- Hide Tags — removes the Tags chip row from the top of the page.
- Hide Flags — removes the Flags chip row from the top of the page.
Changes save instantly and apply across the site.
3. Page panels (Hide Categories / Hide Tags / Hide Flags)
Three quick-navigation strips can appear at the top of the page: a scrolling Categories rail (on phones only) and the Tags and Flags chip rows. Every toggle is off by default.
Hide Categories is a plain on/off. It takes the section rail away and changes nothing else; the sections stay one tap away in the menu and on the Explore page.
The two chip rows share one line, so switching one off changes how the other is laid out:
| Tags | Flags | What the page shows |
|---|---|---|
| Visible | Visible | Both rows side by side, each half the width |
| Hidden | Visible | Only the Flags row, stretched across the full width |
| Visible | Hidden | Only the Tags row, stretched across the full width |
| Hidden | Hidden | Neither row — the block disappears completely, leaving no empty space |
The Categories rail sits above both chip rows and is not affected by them: it stays until you hide it too. These strips appear on the home, category, tag, flag and search pages, and on the homepage guide you can see how they are arranged.
- The preference is stored in your browser, not on your account, and it is remembered on your next visit.
- It applies the moment you open one of those pages — no reload needed after flipping a toggle.
- Because it lives in the browser, the same setting is not shared with your other devices.
📣 Above everything on the page, in the header itself, sits the breaking-news marquee — see Breaking News Marquee for what it is and how to read it.
4. Saved content
Articles and charchapatra posts you save (bookmark icon) appear here, so you can return to them later. Remove an item to unsave it from both your profile and the original page.
The list keeps your 500 most recent saves — that is plenty for everyday use, and keeping the newest means the items you just saved are always the ones shown. If you ever save more than 500, the oldest ones quietly fall off the end of the list.
5. Notifications
- In-app notifications — your unread items and the notification bell.
- Push notifications — browser push for breaking news; enable/disable from the browser prompt or here.
6. Security
- Change password — update your password from Profile (requires the current one).
- Forgot password — from the sign-in page, request a reset link by email.
- Account activation — if your account was created but not activated, the site will guide you through activating it.