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Yakread's Ranking Algorithm


That content isn't going to rank itself

I added this filter because about six months ago I bookmarked a few hundred articles from a particular website, and they still dominate my Yakread feed. An easy and not terrible approach would be to flip a coin for each item in the final list: heads and it comes from subscriptions, tails and it comes from bookmarks. I do this by comparing the two lists pairwise and selecting an item via weighted random choice based on how many times they’ve been previously skipped (i.e. scrolled past in the For You feed).

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