myFeedz Development Blog

Whenever you click on a tag, you’ll see a page showing in its main content area articles related to that tag. To the right of the tag name are the filtering options:

Articles from: all feeds / my feeds only
Sort by: relevance / date

What do these filters do ?

1. Articles from: choose to either get the articles from all the system feeds or only from the feeds you’re subscribed to.
2. Sort by: sort articles using our own relevance algorithm or by publication date.

The relevance algorithm uses our own secret sauce to decide what articles are more important than others. It’s based on many factors such as the feed importance, related articles, your tagcloud, your list of feeds and many more.

Is the anything else affected by these filters ?

Yes, it is. The right sidebar follows the same source filtering and personalization rules as the main view, but inverts the sorting option. So, while the main view shows top tag articles based on relevance, the alternate view shows top tag articles based on publication date and viceversa.

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