Changelog

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.

2025-03-24

Changed

  • Merge duplicate 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

  • 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.

2025-02-25

Added

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

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 code /r/subreddit/.rss for Reddit subreddits.

2025-01-13

Added

  • Comment URLs to Atom feeds.

2025-01-08

Added

  • JSON Feed support.

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

  • Changelog page.

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

  • 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.

2024-10-09

Added

  • Interests, Feeds, and Login pages.