Changelog 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 ( 2025-04-07 Added "Hot" mode that shows new posts along with older posts that are highly related to your interests. 2025-04-03 Added You can logout or delete your account from the Settings page. 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. 2025-03-26 Changed You can login with either your username or email address. 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 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. 2025-03-07 Changed When creating your RSS/Atom/JSON feed, automatically scour all feeds if you aren't subscribed to any specific ones. 2025-03-04 Changed Interests are easier to edit on mobile. 2025-02-27 Added Export your feeds as an OPML file to import into other feed readers. 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. 2025-02-11 Added Passwords can be reset using a link sent to your email. 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. 2025-01-29 Added Estimate article quality using an ML model and filter out low quality articles. 2025-01-27 Added 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. 2024-12-11 Changed Muted color to distinguish visited links. 2024-12-10 Added Open Graph tags for social previews. Outline tech stack on About page. 2024-12-01 Added Changed Show the names of discussion sites in addition to the URLs. 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 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.