For You
A continuous personalized feed driven by a six-dimensional interest profile — with likes, dislikes, and hides feeding back in real time.
What it is
For You is the personalized reading stream of BestBlogs. Unlike My Brief, it's continuously rolling — open it any time and there's fresh content, ranked by your interests and recent feedback.
For You is a Pro capability. Free users can browse the public content list, followed sources, and topic pages.
The interest profile (six dimensions)
Recommendations draw on a layered interest system:
| Dimension | What it captures | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Entity | People, companies, product names | 1.0 |
| Topic | Specific technical topics (e.g., "Rust language") | 0.7 |
| Domain | Top-level buckets (e.g., AI, Engineering, Business) | 0.4 |
| Format | Preferences across article / podcast / video / tweet | 0.2 |
| Source | Preference for specific blogs / RSS sources | Dynamic |
| Freshness | Time-decay on publish date | Dynamic |
The profile tracks explicit weights (what you picked), short-term interest (last 7 days), long-term interest (14-day half-life), and negative signals (dislikes, hides), then blends them at ranking time.
The recommendation pipeline
- Recall: four parallel lanes — tag match, exploration, trending fallback, collaborative filtering.
- Re-rank: parametric weights (tag 35% / source preference 20% / format 15% / freshness 15% / quality 10% / diversity 5%).
- Diversity constraints: ≤ 2 items per source per page, ≤ 3 items per format per page, so the feed never gets dominated.
How to tune it
- Feedback buttons: like / dislike / bookmark / hide, all applied in real time.
- Interest profile page: under Settings → Interest profile you can review your top tags, adjust weights, and remove tags you no longer care about.
- My Views (Pro): build custom views from any combination of tags and sources, pinned into the left sidebar.
What your feedback does
- Like: small bump on the matching tag / source (~0.06–0.07).
- Dislike: strong negative signal (-0.8), takes effect within the current session.
- Bookmark / share: equivalent weight to like.
- Hide: the source / author is suppressed from future recommendations.
How this differs from the brief
| Aspect | My Brief | For You |
|---|---|---|
| Shape | One shortlist per day | Continuous, infinite scroll |
| Generation | Fixed at 07:00 | Real-time |
| Content window | Past 3 days | Past 14 days |
| Best for | A single "catch up" session | Short breaks, commute |