Discovery
Beyond your feed, Scour gives you several ways to find new content, topics, and sources.
The Discover page
Discover, reached from "Discover" in the navigation, is a single page with four tabs: Posts, Interests, Feeds, and People. Posts is the default tab. When you're signed in, the Interests and Feeds tabs lead with personalized recommendations, so the things worth adding sit right at the top.
Posts
The Posts tab shows what's trending across Scour. Filter by timeframe and follow popular posts as a feed.
Switch to Most covered to rank articles by how many other posts and discussion threads link to them, so you can see which stories the web is talking about. Filter by timeframe, open any article to see who's discussing it, and follow the ranking as a feed.
When several sources pick up the same story within a few hours, it shows a Hot badge so you can spot what is breaking across your feeds.
Interests
The Interests tab lets you browse the interest catalog by category, or search it by name from the box above the list. When you're signed in, interests Scour thinks you'll want to follow lead the tab. Copy any interest with one click. As you read and react to posts, Scour also weaves new topic suggestions into your feed. See Interests for details on how topic recommendations work.
Feeds
The Feeds tab lists sources, with a Sort menu above them: Popular (most followers), Newest (recently added), Most frequent (posts most often), Recently active (posted most recently), and Name A-Z. The search box next to the Sort menu hands your words to full feed search. When you're signed in, feed recommendations based on your interests lead the tab, and the Sort menu gains Followed first and Unfollowed first, which group the list by what you already follow. Accept any source to follow it, or dismiss it to improve future suggestions. See Feeds for details on how feed recommendations work.
People
The People tab shows other users' public profiles and their interests. Follow someone's likes or personalized feed as a source and Scour searches it for posts matching your interests, the same as following a byline.
Search
Search uses semantic matching, so you can describe what you're looking for in natural language rather than guessing exact keywords. By default, search looks through the feeds you follow; switch the scope from "Feeds you follow" to "All sources" to search everything.
Results arrive on three tabs. All mixes sources and posts, Sources answers who covers a subject (the site itself, the feeds it publishes, and the people writing there), and Posts is the writing on its own. Follow anything you find straight from the results.
On a wide screen the search box sits in the top bar, beside your username; press / from any page to jump into it. On a phone, Search is a tab in the bottom bar.
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