Scour - January Update
This was sent out to everyone who's signed up for Scour. Reposting here for anyone else that comes across it later.
Hi friends,
This is Evan from Scour, writing to you with the first product update. Here are some of the new features I've added over the last month or so. Enjoy -- and let me know what you think!
Filtering Out Low-Quality Content
Some feeds are super noisy and have a mix of high- and low-quality content (for example, many subreddits and Hacker News Newest).
Scour now uses an ML model trained to classify text quality and filter out low-quality posts. I'm still tweaking the exact algorithm but you should already notice fewer beginner questions showing up on your page. (Thanks @justmoon for the suggestion!)
Scour All Feeds
You can now Scour content matching your interests from all the feeds. This should be especially useful if you're not someone who has a carefully curated set of RSS subscriptions.
Recommended Feeds
Speaking of feeds, you can also check out your Recommended Feeds to easily subscribe to sources that have content matching your interests. To build those recommendations, Scour looks at which feeds had the most relevant content for you over the last chunk of time.
Public Feedback Board and Roadmap
You've already given me loads of great suggestions in person, 1:1 chats, and on Bluesky. Now there is a public feedback board and roadmap where you can submit suggestions, vote on other peoples' ideas, and see what I'll be working on next. Please let me know what other features you'd like to see!
Other Updates
- Scour can scrape some blogs that don't have RSS feeds as if they did. This currently works for pages such as Anthropic's News, the MixedBread Blog and the Ollama Blog. Let me know if there are others you'd like to add that don't have feeds.
- When you add a feed URL, Scour will try various paths to find the RSS/Atom feed (so you can just enter
https://example.comand it'll automatically findhttps://example.com/feed.xml). - Import subscriptions from another RSS reader by uploading an OPML file (thanks Connor Taffe for the suggestion!).
- There is now a Scour Bookmarklet that you can bookmark to easily subscribe to feeds as you browse the web. You can find and bookmark the link towards the bottom of the about page.
Cheers! Evan