Changelog

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• You can change your settings to open links in a new tab.

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• Posts on the single interest page show other related interests.

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• On the single item page, you can find similar posts below the post preview.

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• You can share posts from Scour using the Share button.

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• Scour uses a model to detect harmful content and filters out posts that contain hate speech, encourage violence or discrimination, etc.

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• Interest recommendations will be rotated if they are ignored (in addition to if you explicitly reject them).

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• Interest recommendations are shown interspersed with posts on your feed.

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• Feeds you are already subscribed to are hidden by default on the Browse Popular Feeds and Browse Newest Feeds pages to make it easier to find new feeds to subscribe to.

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• Fixed a bug in the content ingestion pipeline that caused some posts to have the incorrect embedding assigned, which caused the wrong interest tags to be shown.
• Deleting your account unsubscribes you from product update emails.

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• Infinite scroll instead of pagination for user feeds and all other pages that previously used pagination.
• Scroll to top button in the bottom right corner of the page.
• Dark mode toggle.

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• Top navbar uses dropdown menu instead of side-scrolling.

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• Interest tags use emojis to make the feed easier to visually scan -- and more fun!

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• 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.

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• Increased information density in the weekly email digests.

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• Scour sends weekly email digests. They are sent on Friday at 10:00 UTC. You can disable them in your Settings.

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• JSON Feed exports include a _scour object with each post's score, quality, and quality probability.

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• You can set the default timeframe for your feed in your Settings.

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• 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.

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• HTTP errors show up as a notification.

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• Overhauled the site design to be more modern and consistent.
• Fixed performance bug that slowed down loading user feeds.

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• You can love () posts, in addition to liking them, to save the especially great content you find on Scour.

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• "Hot" mode that shows new posts along with older posts that are highly related to your interests.

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• You can logout or delete your account from the Settings page.

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• 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.

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• You can login with either your username or email address.

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• Merge duplicate feeds.

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• 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.

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• Show loading spinners and disable form inputs while requests are in flight.

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• Welcome page for new users to add interests more easily.

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• 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.

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• You can subscribe to other users' likes.

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• When browsing other users' feeds, you can click a button to easily subscribe to their feeds.

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• You can like and dislike posts.
• All of your likes can be found on your Likes page.
• You see other users' likes in the Browse section.

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• When creating your RSS/Atom/JSON feed, automatically scour all feeds if you aren't subscribed to any specific ones.

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• Interests are easier to edit on mobile.

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• Export your feeds as an OPML file to import into other feed readers.

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• 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.

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• Comment links are shown by default.

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• User feeds are available in JSON Feed format (at /@username/feed.json).

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• 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.

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• Increased source and feed diversity. You shouldn't see too many posts from the same website or feed anymore.

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• Passwords can be reset using a link sent to your email.

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• Interests can be edited.
• Smoother UX across the site (search, updating settings, page transitions, etc).

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• Personalized interest recommendations are now available on your Interests page.

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• Smoother UX when adding and removing feeds and interests.

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• Estimate article quality using an ML model and filter out low quality articles.

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• Public roadmap and feedback board: feedback.scour.ing

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• Importing feeds from OPML files now happens asynchronously in the background.

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• Scour bookmarklet for quickly subscribing to new feeds.
• Browse most recently added feeds.

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• Users stay logged in when navigating to Scour from other websites.

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• 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.

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• Comment URLs to Atom feeds.

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• JSON Feed support.

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• Recommend feeds based on users' interests.
• Option to scour content matching a user's interest from all users' feeds.

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• Allow HTTP feed URLs.
• Include related interests as categories in re-exported Atom feeds (RSS feeds already included them).

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• Import feeds from OPML files.

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• Send If-Modified-Since header to feeds to avoid unnecessary load on feeds that haven't changed.

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• Don't show items whose published date is in the future.
• Fix RSS feed parsing to use the permalink if available.

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• 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.

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• Muted color to distinguish visited links.

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• Open Graph tags for social previews.
• Outline tech stack on About page.

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• Changelog page.

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• Show the names of discussion sites in addition to the URLs.

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• Browse Feeds and Users pages.
• Track item clicks to improve ranking.

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• Diversify results using Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR).

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• 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.

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• Expose user feeds as RSS and Atom feeds.
• Show multiple related interests per post.

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• Improve post categorization and ranking by chunking posts before creating the embeddings.

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• Feed starter packs.

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• Use binary embeddings and calculate similarity using Hamming distance.

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• Support Bluesky, Medium, Substack, and other sites that include RSS links in their HTML.

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• Interests, Feeds, and Login pages.