diff --git a/static/js/CommunityPage.jsx b/static/js/CommunityPage.jsx
index fb967fd119..003323158e 100644
--- a/static/js/CommunityPage.jsx
+++ b/static/js/CommunityPage.jsx
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ const CommunityPage = ({multiPanel, toggleSignUpModal, initialWidth}) => {
   } else {
     featuredContent = <LoadingMessage />
   }
-  console.log("load data from recentlyPUblished component")
+
   return (
     <div className="readerNavMenu communityPage sans-serif" key="0">
       <div className="content">
@@ -75,24 +75,29 @@ CommunityPage.propTypes = {
 
 
 const RecentlyPublished = ({multiPanel, toggleSignUpModal}) => {
-  const options = {};
-  const pageSize = 16;
-  const [nSheetsLoaded, setNSheetsLoded] = useState(0);
+  // const options = Sefaria.interfaceLang === "hebrew" ? {"lang": "hebrew"} : {};
+  const options =  {};
+  // options["filtered"] = true;
+  const pageSize = 60;
+  const [nSheetsLoaded, setNSheetsLoded] = useState(0); // counting sheets loaded from the API, may be different than sheets displayed
   // Start with recent sheets in the cache, if any
-  const [recentSheets, setRecentSheets] = useState(Sefaria.sheets.publicSheets(0, pageSize, options));
+  const [recentSheets, setRecentSheets] = useState(collapseSheets(Sefaria.sheets.publicSheets(0, pageSize, options)));
 
+  // But also make an API call immeditately to check for updates
   useEffect(() => {
     loadMore();
   }, []);
 
   const loadMore = (e, until=pageSize) => {
     Sefaria.sheets.publicSheets(nSheetsLoaded, pageSize, options, true, (data) => {
-      const newSheets = recentSheets ? recentSheets.concat(data) : data;
+      console.log("Raw Sheets Data:", data);
+      const collapsedSheets = collapseSheets(data);
+      const newSheets = recentSheets ? recentSheets.concat(collapsedSheets) : collapsedSheets;
       setRecentSheets(newSheets);
-      console.log("Sheets to be displayed:", newSheets);
+      console.log("sheets to be displayed", newSheets)
       setNSheetsLoded(nSheetsLoaded + pageSize);
-      if (data.length < until && data.length !== 0) {
-        loadMore(null, until - data.length);
+      if (collapsedSheets.length < until && collapsedSheets.length !== 0) {
+        loadMore(null, until - collapsedSheets.length);
       }
     });
   };
@@ -121,24 +126,24 @@ const RecentlyPublished = ({multiPanel, toggleSignUpModal}) => {
 };
 
 
-// const collapseSheets = (sheets) => {
-//   // Collapses consecutive sheets with the same author
-//   if (!sheets) { return null; }
-
-//   return sheets.reduce((accum, sheet) => {
-//     if (!accum.length) {
-//       return [sheet];
-//     }
-//     const prev = accum[accum.length-1];
-//     if (prev.author === sheet.author) {
-//       prev.moreSheets = prev.moreSheets || [];
-//       prev.moreSheets.push(sheet);
-//     } else {
-//       accum.push(sheet);
-//     }
-//     return accum;
-//   }, []);
-// }
+const collapseSheets = (sheets) => {
+  // Collapses consecutive sheets with the same author
+  if (!sheets) { return null; }
+
+  return sheets.reduce((accum, sheet) => {
+    if (!accum.length) {
+      return [sheet];
+    }
+    const prev = accum[accum.length-1];
+    if (prev.author === sheet.author) {
+      prev.moreSheets = prev.moreSheets || [];
+      prev.moreSheets.push(sheet);
+    } else {
+      accum.push(sheet);
+    }
+    return accum;
+  }, []);
+}
 
 const FeaturedSheet = ({sheet, showDate, trackClicks, toggleSignUpModal}) => {
   if (!sheet) { return null; }
diff --git a/static/js/sefaria/util.js b/static/js/sefaria/util.js
index d9a6ab63c3..0c95b155a6 100644
--- a/static/js/sefaria/util.js
+++ b/static/js/sefaria/util.js
@@ -201,16 +201,26 @@ class Util {
     }
 
     static naturalTime(timeStamp, {lang, short} = {}) {
-        // given epoch time stamp, return string of time delta between `timeStamp` and now
         const now = Util.epoch_time();
+        const duration = now - timeStamp; // Calculate duration in milliseconds
         let language = lang ? lang : (Sefaria.interfaceLang === 'hebrew' ? 'he' : 'en');
         let spacer = " ";
         if (short) {
             language = language === "en" ? "shortEn" : "shortBo";
-            spacer = language === "shortEn" ? "" : " ";
+            spacer = ""; // Apply empty spacer to both shortEn and shortBo
         }
-        return Util.sefariaHumanizeDuration(now - timeStamp, {"language": language, "spacer": spacer});
+        let result = Util.sefariaHumanizeDuration(duration, {"language": language, "spacer": spacer});
+        if (language === "shortBo") {
+            const match = result.match(/^(\d+)(.*)/);
+            if (match) {
+                const number = match[1]; // Leading digits, e.g., "5"
+                const unit = match[2];   // Remainder, e.g., "ཆུ་ཚོད་"
+                result = unit + number;  // Combine without space, e.g., "ཆུ་ཚོད་5"
+            }
+        }
+        return result;
     }
+    
 
     static object_equals(a, b) {
         // simple object equality assuming values are primitive. see here
@@ -1169,9 +1179,9 @@ Util.sefariaHumanizeDuration = humanizeDuration.humanizer({
             ms: () => "ms",
         },
         shortBo: {
-            y: () => "ཕྱི་ལོ",
+            y: () => "ལོ་",
             mo: () => "ཟླ་",
-            w: () => "བདུན་ཕྲག་",
+            w: () => "བདུན་",
             d: () => "ཚེས་",
             h: () => "ཆུ་ཚོད་",
             m: () => "སྐར་མ་",