Reactions

By the end of this page, you'll understand what reactions do (and don't do), and how to use your Likes page as a bookmark collection.

The Three Reactions

Every post has three reaction buttons:

• Love — For posts you want to remember. Appears first on your Likes page.
• Like — For posts you enjoyed. Saved to your Likes page after loved posts.
• Dislike — For posts that weren't useful. Reduces prominence of that source and helps Scour learn what topics not to suggest as interests.

Clicking a reaction again removes it. You can change reactions at any time.

How Reactions Affect Your Feed

Your interests determine the topics in your feed. Reactions won't add new topics or flood you with content after a single like. But they do subtly shape your feed over time:

• Source prominence: Liking or loving posts from a source makes that source more likely to appear. Disliking makes it less prominent.
• Topic balance: If you consistently engage with one topic area more than others, that area gets a bit more space in your feed.
• Interest suggestions: Reactions help Scour suggest new topics you might want to add, but suggestions are just suggestions.

These adjustments are gradual and confidence-weighted: a single reaction won't dramatically change anything, and the effect is capped so no single source or topic can dominate. For the full picture, see How Ranking Works.

Your Likes Page

Loving or liking a post saves it to your Likes page (find it in the navigation menu, or go to /@yourusername/likes). Loved posts appear first, then liked posts, sorted by when you reacted.

Your Likes page is public at scour.ing/@yourusername/likes. This lets others discover content through your recommendations. You can subscribe to any user's Likes as a feed, and your Likes are also available as RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds. Private profiles are on the roadmap.

History

Your Reading History (in the navigation menu) shows the posts you've clicked on. Use it to find posts you forgot to bookmark. Unlike your Likes page, Reading History is private.

Posts you've seen are hidden by default so your feed shows fresh content. To show everything, open the filter menu () and enable "Include seen posts."

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