Changelog

Added

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

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.

Added

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

Changed

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

Added

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

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.

Changed

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

Added

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

Added

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

Added

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

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.

Changed

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

Changed

• Merge duplicate feeds.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Changed

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

Changed

• Interests are easier to edit on mobile.

Added

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

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.

Added

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

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.

Changed

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

Added

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

Changed

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

Added

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

Changed

• Smoother UX when adding and removing feeds and interests.

Added

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

Added

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

Changed

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

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.

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.

Added

• Comment URLs to Atom feeds.

Added

• JSON Feed support.

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).

Added

• Import feeds from OPML files.

Changed

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

Changed

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

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.

Changed

• Muted color to distinguish visited links.

Added

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

Added

• Changelog page.

Changed

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

Added

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

Changed

• Diversify results using Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR).

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.

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.

Added

• Feed starter packs.

Changed

• Use binary embeddings and calculate similarity using Hamming distance.

Added

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

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• Interests, Feeds, and Login pages.