Filtering the news feed: All, Featured, Vendor, Industry, and Verinode

What the filter chips are

The Industry News page is HQ's single feed of restoration industry content: articles, videos, podcasts, event listings, vendor announcements, product launches, and Verinode's own research. It is not a place to manage anything, there is nothing to create, assign, or approve here. It is a reading surface, and the five filter chips at the top of it are how you narrow a feed that can run to dozens of items down to just the slice you came in to read.

The five chips are All, Featured, Vendor, Industry, and Verinode. Only one chip is active at a time: clicking a chip replaces the current view, it does not add to it. There is no way to combine, for example, "Featured" and "Vendor" into one filtered view; each chip is its own complete lens over the whole feed.

Where to find it

Open News from the HQ sidebar at hq.verinode.ai/news. The page header reads Industry News, and directly under it is a one-line summary of the feed (how many items are in it, how many are featured, how many are vendor items), followed by the filter chip row, then the feed itself.

The five chips and what each one counts

• All: every item currently in the feed, with no narrowing applied. This is the default view when the page loads.
• Featured: only the items Verinode's editorial process has flagged as featured, its editorial highlights for the current stretch of content.
• Vendor: items about a specific vendor or product, vendor news and new product-launch announcements.
• Industry: everything that is not a vendor or product item, general articles, video, podcast episodes, and event listings about the restoration industry at large.
• Verinode: only the items authored directly by Verinode itself (its own research and analysis), as distinct from the outside publishers, vendors, and content partners the rest of the feed pulls from.

How each chip's count is computed

Every chip carries a small number next to its label, the count of items that chip's filter would show if you clicked it. These counts are computed fresh from the current feed each time the page loads (they are not a separate running tally kept anywhere else):

• All's number is simply the total item count in the feed.
• Featured's number is how many items in the feed are currently flagged as editorial highlights.
• Vendor's number is how many items are vendor news or product-launch announcements.
• Industry's number is everything left over, items that are not vendor or product items.
• Verinode's number is how many items were authored directly by Verinode.

The one-line summary under the page title also surfaces a couple of these same numbers up front, item total, featured count, and vendor count, so you get a sense of the feed's shape before you touch a single chip.

Why zero-count chips auto-hide

If a chip's count would be zero, that chip does not appear in the row at all. If the feed has no vendor items in it right now, the Vendor chip is simply absent; there is nothing to click through to an empty filtered view. This keeps the chip row honest: every chip you see is guaranteed to show you something if you click it.

All is the one exception, it always stays visible regardless of its count, since it is the baseline "show everything" view rather than a narrowing filter. In practice this distinction rarely comes up, because the chip row itself only renders once the feed has at least one item in it; a genuinely empty feed shows its own separate empty state (see below) instead of a chip row with nothing behind it.

1. 1Land on Industry News. The All chip is active by default and every item in the feed is visible.
2. 2Scan the chip row. Only chips with at least one matching item are shown, so what you see already reflects what the feed currently contains.
3. 3Click a chip, say Vendor, to narrow the view to just that lens. The count on the chip tells you how many cards to expect before you click.
4. 4Click All again at any point to return to the unfiltered view.

How Featured and Latest are laid out

Only when All is the active chip does the feed split itself visually into two labeled groups: a Featured section up top (its heading in copper), followed by a Latest section (its heading in gray) holding everything else. Switch to any of the other four chips and that split disappears, you get one plain grid of whatever matches that filter, with no Featured/Latest heading at all.

Two more details worth knowing:

• If the feed currently has zero featured items, the All view shows no Featured heading and no Latest heading either, just the plain grid, since there is nothing to split.
• The Featured group renders as a two-across grid on a desktop-width window (still single column on a narrow one); the Latest group renders wider, up to three cards across on a large desktop window.

Reading a news card

Every card in the feed, regardless of which chip produced it, shows the same set of fields:

• A small pill in the corner naming the item's kind: Article, Video, Podcast, Event, Vendor, or Product. If a kind does not map to one of those labels, the card falls back to a readable version of whatever the item's own kind is, so you never see a raw unformatted value.
• The item's cover image, when it has one, with the kind pill overlaid on top of it. Without a cover image, the kind pill sits above the headline instead.
• The headline (the item's title).
• A short summary underneath, when the item has one, capped at three lines.
• A footer row with the source name on the left (or a short dash if no source is set) and how recently it was published on the right: Today, a day count ("3d ago"), a week count ("2w ago") once it is a week or older, or a month count ("2mo ago") once it has been out for over a month.
• A featured item additionally carries a thin copper outline around the whole card, so it is visually distinct wherever it appears, in the Featured group, or mixed into a filtered view like Vendor or Verinode.

Clicking anywhere on a card opens it in a preview panel over the page, where you can read the full item without leaving News; the original source link is available from there too.

Empty states

No items in the feed at all. Before any content has flowed in, the page shows just the title and a short description of what the feed will eventually hold (Verinode research, industry articles, podcasts, vendor moves, and equipment launches), and in place of the feed itself: "No items in the feed yet. New articles will appear here as the upstream content scraper publishes them." There is no chip row in this state, since there is nothing yet to filter.

A filter with nothing to show. This can only happen in principle, since a chip with a zero count is hidden before you could ever click it, but if you land on a filtered view with nothing matching, the feed area reads: "No items match this filter yet." This message never appears under All, since All only has a count of zero when the whole feed is empty, which is handled by the top-level empty state above instead.

The HQ privacy boundary

Everything on this page is network-wide industry content: Verinode research, outside publishers, vendor and product news. None of it is a franchisee's own business data, and nothing here surfaces a specific membership's numbers, activity, or identity. This is shared, public-facing content, the same kind of thing you would read in a trade publication, not the private layer where a franchisee's own data lives.

Related help articles

• /help/hq-overview: what HQ is and how its sections fit together
• /help/hq-benchmarks: the peer-benchmark surfaces, which hold Verinode's own network intelligence rather than outside industry content
• /help/broadcasting-to-your-network: HQ's outbound channel to your own network, distinct from this inbound industry feed

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