Reactions

Reactions tune your feed and fill your Library. Here's what they do (and don't do).

The three reactions

Every post has three reaction buttons:

• Love — For posts you want to remember. Files the post on the Loves shelf of your Library.
• Like — For posts you enjoyed. Files the post on the Likes shelf of your Library.
• Dislike — For posts that weren't useful. Removes the post from your feed and helps Scour learn what topics not to suggest as interests.

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

Saving is not a reaction. Save keeps a post for later and changes nothing about your feed or your suggestions. See Saved.

When you dislike a post, a short panel appears. You can (optionally) say why (off topic, low quality, or already saw this), and you can hide the source entirely with the block button, which names it (Block The Verge). Only “low quality” reflects on the source itself; the other reasons just tune that post, not the publisher.

Reporting is different. Use Report (in a post's “…” menu) only for content that shouldn't be on Scour for anyone: spam, misleading, or harmful posts. A dislike is about your taste; reporting is about the post breaking the rules.

Want more like a particular story? Every post's “…” menu has See related topics, which turns the article into topic and feed suggestions you can follow in one tap. See Add interests from an article.

Here's a real post. Select it to see where the reaction buttons live, and sign up to react to posts and fill your own Library.

When you come back from a post

Open a post and come back to your feed, and Scour pins it to the top, stripped down to its title, under the question “What did you think of this post?” Love, Like or Dislike answers it, right there on the pin. The same question sits at the foot of a post you read on Scour, so you can answer without coming back at all.

A love or a like opens two rows under the question: Sources, to follow the site or the byline the post came from, and Add interests, with topic chips drawn from the article (see Add interests from an article). A dislike opens a Less of this row of chips instead. Either way, when other sites covered the same story, an Also covering this line names a few of them and links to the rest.

How reactions affect your feed

Your interests decide which topics appear; reactions only tune the mix within them, gradually and never all at once. See How ranking works for what reactions actually move.

Your Library

Loving or liking a post files it in your Library, the Library tab in the navigation. The Library has four shelves in this order: Saved, Loves, Likes and History. Loves and Likes are sorted by when you reacted, newest first.

Your Loves and Likes are public; Saved and History are private. See Privacy & account for what others can see.

Saved

Saving keeps a post for later. Unlike a reaction it is purely organizational: it changes nothing about your ranking or your interest suggestions. There are two ways to save:

• From the post: hover over or select it, then click the button that appears.
• Keyboard: select a post and press s. See Keyboard shortcuts for the full list.

Clicking or pressing again unsaves it. Your saved posts live on the Saved shelf of your Library, in the order you saved them (newest first).

History

Your reading history, the last shelf in the Library, shows the posts you've clicked on. Use it to find posts you forgot to bookmark.

Posts you've already seen drop down your feed and are eventually hidden, so it keeps showing fresh content. To show everything, switch the Hiding seen posts dropdown above your feed to Showing seen posts.

Still have questions? Or feedback on these docs? Please let me know!