Scour - May Update

Hi friends, In May, Scour scoured 865,266 posts from 28,671 feeds (1,766 of which were newly added), and 260 new users signed up to bring it across the 3,000 user mark! Here's what's new in the product: 🔎 Smarter Interest MatchingScour is now better at finding posts that match your interests. You should see more relevant content and far fewer off-topic articles in your feed. (This sounds simple, but it represents at least a full month's effort 😅.) The way this works under the hood was one of the single biggest changes I've made to Scour's core ranking system since I started working on it. At a high level, scoring now combines Scour's original fuzzy concept matching (embedding vector distance) with how much the article uses relevant vocabulary (lexical search). While these ingredients are well-established, I think the exact way Scour implements them might be a somewhat novel system design. The reason this was so complex to build was that existing approaches to lexical search did not…