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Feed & voting

A ranked stream for between editions, and the voting system that learns your taste.

The feed

The feed is a ranked stream of all your articles across every source. Think of it as snacking between sit-down meals — quick catch-up, killing time, scanning for something interesting.

Navigate to All articles in the sidebar to access it. Each focus also has its own feed, scoped to that topic.

Sort & filter

Sort modes
Top Ranked by votes, recency, and topic confidence
Recent Simple chronological order, newest first
Filters
Time All time, this week, or today
Status All articles, only unread, or only read

The scoring formula

score = α × confidence + β × voteSignal + γ × recency
Confidence (α) How well the article matches the topic (0.0–1.0). Only used in focus feeds and editions
Vote signal (β) Personalisation from your upvotes and downvotes, propagated via semantic similarity
Recency (γ) Freshness — exponential decay with a 3-day half-life
Weight presets
Global feed 0.0 / 0.6 / 0.4
Focus feed 0.4 / 0.4 / 0.2
Edition gen 0.5 / 0.4 / 0.1

α / β / γ — customisable in Settings → Scoring. Weights are relative, they don't need to sum to 1.

Voting

Voting is how you teach Editions your taste. Upvote means "more like this" — similar articles will rank higher. Downvote means "less like this" — similar articles will rank lower.

Vote scopes

Main feed Global

Is this a good article in general?

Focus feed Focus

Does this belong in this topic?

Edition reader Edition

Was this well-chosen for this magazine?

Global feed
Is this a good article?
Technology focus
Does this belong here?
Relevance

Upvote or downvote to teach the system

Semantic propagation

This is the clever part. When you vote on an article, the signal propagates to semantically similar articles through embeddings.

01 Each article has a 384-dimensional embedding vector, generated by MiniLM running locally
02 Articles without direct votes look at the 15 most similar voted articles (above 0.3 cosine similarity)
03 The weighted average of those votes becomes the article's vote signal

In practice: a few votes on climate policy articles will shift the ranking of hundreds of similar pieces you haven't even seen yet.

Bookmarks & tuning

Bookmarks

Save any article for later by bookmarking it. You can also save articles by URL — Editions will extract the content automatically.

Customising scoring weights

Navigate to Settings → Scoring to adjust the ranking weights:

● Raise recency to keep feeds fresh and time-sensitive
● Raise votes to make ranking more personal
● Raise confidence in focus feeds for strongly on-topic results
● Reset to defaults if you want to start over