What do "stash" and "news" mean?

[Teajey]

I've loved using glow for reading Markdown files on the commandline for like a year now, but I've always been confused by what this means:

0 stashed │ 0 news • (Offline)

And this subcommand

  stash       Stash a markdown

All it's ever showed me is

   Can’t load stash (Offline)
 
   Can't load your stash. Are you offline?

My computer's definitely connected to the internet. Do I need to do something to put glow "online"?

It seems to be totally taken for granted what these terms mean. There's no mention of these features in the README, I can't find anyone discussing them. What gives?

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charmbracelet/glow/refs/heads/master/README.md | rg -i -e news -e stash

This one I find particularly puzzling:

~/code/repo/glow
$ rg news

[DevrMichael]

@Teajey

• “Stash” and “News” were Glow Classic (v1) cloud features.
  Stash: your saved Markdown posts synced to your Charm account (so you could access them across machines).
  News: a feed of Markdown posts from others (people you follow/public posts).
• The “Offline” message appears when that older build can’t reach the Charm service or you’re not signed in, so it shows “0 stashed │ 0 news • (Offline)”.
• In current Glow v2, those networked features were removed/simplified. The TUI now shows your local Markdown files; there’s no online “stash/news” anymore.

What you can do:

If you want the simpler, local‑only experience, upgrade to v2 (e.g., brew upgrade glow or go install github.com/charmbracelet/glow/v2@latest) and you won’t see “stash/news/offline.”
If you intentionally use the Classic build, you’ll need to sign in to Charm Cloud and have network access for stash/news to populate.