Changelog
2025-05-09
Added
- Each single-interest page has a corresponding RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed.
- You can export all of your interests as an OPML file to import them into a feed reader.
Changed
- Increased information density in the weekly email digests.
2025-05-01
Added
- Scour sends weekly email digests. They are sent on Friday at 10:00 UTC. You can disable them in your Settings.
2025-04-29
Changed
- JSON Feed exports include a
_scour
object with each post's score, quality, and quality probability.
2025-04-24
Added
- Single-interest view: you can click on an interest on your Interests page, on a tag next to a post, or on the Browse Users page to see all posts for that interest.
- If you see someone else's interest that you also like, you can easily add that to your interests as well.
Changed
- HTTP errors show up as a notification.
2025-04-21
Changed
- Overhauled the site design to be more modern and consistent.
- Fixed performance bug that slowed down loading user feeds.
2025-04-10
Added
- You can love () posts, in addition to liking them, to save the especially great content you find on Scour.
2025-04-07
Added
- "Hot" mode that shows new posts along with older posts that are highly related to your interests.
2025-03-27
Changed
- Split Sign Up and Login pages for better onboarding experience.
- Fixed a bug where Search wouldn't work for users who haven't subscribed to feeds.
2025-03-20
Added
- New Popular Posts page.
- Each post has a
Show Feeds
button to see which feeds it was found in. - You can subscribe and unsubscribe to feeds directly from the feeds shown for a particular post.
Changed
- Show loading spinners and disable form inputs while requests are in flight.
2025-03-19
Added
- Welcome page for new users to add interests more easily.
Changed
- User feeds support the
?all_feeds=true
option. - Clarify the "All Feeds" option on the user feed and search pages.
- Simpler form for adding interests.
2025-03-17
Added
- You can subscribe to other users' likes.
Changed
- When browsing other users' feeds, you can click a button to easily subscribe to their feeds.
2025-03-14
Added
2025-03-07
Changed
- When creating your RSS/Atom/JSON feed, automatically scour all feeds if you aren't subscribed to any specific ones.
2025-02-26
Added
- Configure which languages you speak in your settings.
- Posts are classified by language and we'll do our best to filter out posts in languages you don't speak.
Changed
- Comment links are shown by default.
2025-02-24
Changed
- Recommended Feeds can be found on the Feeds page.
- Password field on sign-up form has autocomplete tags so browsers suggest creating a new password.
- Feed descriptions are easier to read, especially on mobile.
2025-02-12
Changed
- Increased source and feed diversity. You shouldn't see too many posts from the same website or feed anymore.
2025-02-08
Changed
- Interests can be edited.
- Smoother UX across the site (search, updating settings, page transitions, etc).
2025-02-06
Added
- Personalized interest recommendations are now available on your Interests page.
Changed
- Smoother UX when adding and removing feeds and interests.
2025-01-27
Added
- Public roadmap and feedback board: feedback.scour.ing
Changed
- Importing feeds from OPML files now happens asynchronously in the background.
2025-01-15
Added
- Scour bookmarklet for quickly subscribing to new feeds.
- Browse most recently added feeds.
Changed
- Users stay logged in when navigating to Scour from other websites.
2025-01-14
Added
- Support some blogs that do not have RSS feeds, as long as they have a structure that contains a post title, date, and link. For example, Anthropic's News, MixedBread's Blog, and the Ollama Blog.
- Automatically find feeds located at common URL paths, such as
/blog
,/rss.xml
, or/r/subreddit/.rss
for Reddit subreddits.
2025-01-06
Added
- Recommend feeds based on users' interests.
- Option to scour content matching a user's interest from all users' feeds.
Changed
- Allow HTTP feed URLs.
- Include related interests as categories in re-exported Atom feeds (RSS feeds already included them).
2024-12-23
Added
- Import feeds from OPML files.
Changed
- Send If-Modified-Since header to feeds to avoid unnecessary load on feeds that haven't changed.
2024-12-19
Changed
- Don't show items whose published date is in the future.
- Fix RSS feed parsing to use the permalink if available.
2024-12-12
Changed
- Autofocus the first input field on the Feeds and Interests pages.
- Switch library used for extracting text from HTML, which should improve result ranking.
- If a feed item does not have a published date, fall back to the current date rather than ignoring the item.
2024-11-25
Added
- Browse Feeds and Users pages.
- Track item clicks to improve ranking.
Changed
- Diversify results using Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR).
2024-11-18
Changed
- Move user pages to
/@username
path. - Improve URL normalization to deduplicate items.
- Redirect to
https://scour.ing
. - Remove icons from items to reduce clutter.
- Remove tracking parameters during URL normalization.
2024-11-07
Added
- Expose user feeds as RSS and Atom feeds.
- Show multiple related interests per post.
Changed
- Improve post categorization and ranking by chunking posts before creating the embeddings.
2024-11-01
Added
- Feed starter packs.
Changed
- Use binary embeddings and calculate similarity using Hamming distance.
2024-10-23
Added
- Support Bluesky, Medium, Substack, and other sites that include RSS links in their HTML.