Changelog

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.

2025-01-13

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.