Scour

Currently, all user pages are public https://scour.ing/browse/users Some users might want to keep their interests and feeds private.

Seed the interest data from an article that I liked. Sometimes I don't know how to describe the interest/topic/vibe but I know it when I read the article. Allow me to paste an article link and extract topics/interests out of it explicitly so I could

"To avoid putting myself in a bubble, I would still like the ability to specify a small percentage of articles not in my interests, so that I do not put myself in a bubble." - [oxamide96 on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/1kn7sex/comme

It would be nice to be able to assign a priority to interests. For example: Priority 1 - Alert: Any post that matches this interest is always at the top and highlighted. For me, this would be news about projects I am or was involved in (e.g. Dassi

Every ranking algorithm, including Scour's, has many different knobs to control various types of tradeoffs. It would be neat to expose those to users so people could experiment with different tradeoffs to design their ideal feed.

Subscription services for things like Stratechery provide private RSS feeds that are intended for one consumer. It would be cool to be able to add these for personal filtering without the risk of them leaking to other users.

It would be nice to be able to create multiple named pages or sections and assign certain interests and feeds to each page. For example, a user might want to have a Tech page alongside a Music or Politics page.

Would be nice to support adding email newsletters either as first-hand sources if they are that or as an easy way to positively weigh a bunch of sources as thumbs up if they are link aggregators

When viewing the RSS feed in a reader app it seems to only contain redirect link via scour.ing. Maybe as a premium feature offer the original URL and RSS content for the article in addition to separate up and down vote links within the article feed?

it’d be convenient to have a dropdown or combo box where I can type in the interest \- @adam.gluck10

Not really sure what the difference between “like” and “love” is supposed to mean, and having both makes me pause and overthink which one to pick. It adds friction. I’d rather just quickly react and move on.

Rather than me make a judgement call about when I've scrolled down too far because all the tagging and recommendations have become nonsense, it'd be nice if scour could just stop to effectively say "this is all I've got for you today".

It might be nice to support podcasts, especially since they also use RSS for distribution. We'd probably want to find a source of transcripts to use for comparing the content to users' interests. Would we want to include links to the episode on var

You should consider a service like https://buymeacoffee.com/ to make it easier for people to help support this project. Don't want to see it die away.