Scour - April Update

Hi friends, In April, Scour scoured 778,059 posts from 25,790 feeds. This month, my focus was on ranking improvements and adding a number of new features: 🔃 Ranking ImprovementsScour is designed to find hidden gems that interest you, while trying to avoid using popularity signals or pigeonholing you into a narrow slice of content simply because you clicked on one thing (you can read the ranking philosophy here). Your Scour feed now subtly adjusts based on which content you click on, like, or dislike. Interests whose related content you like will get a small boost, as well as posts from domains that you tend to like. This effect is intentionally subtle. The feed is also much better now at balancing across your different interests. I revamped the way it does the final content selection to have an explicit diversification step that balances the feed based on your interests, the sources, and other criteria. ↕️ Tap to ExpandScour's interface has undergone a number of iterations this month.…