🎯 Personalized News
Personalization FAQ
Quick answers to the most common questions about how Headlinne personalizes your feed—from how it learns you to how to reset it.
By Headlinne Editorial Team · Updated on
How personalization works, in brief
Headlinne learns your interests from how you read and swipe, represents them as a taste vector, and scores every story on a weighted blend of relevance, freshness, and diversity signals to build your feed. It updates continuously and deliberately mixes in exploration so it broadens rather than narrows.
The questions below cover what people most often ask about that process. For depth, follow the linked articles.
Common questions
The essentials at a glance:
- How does it learn me? From your reading, swiping, following, and searching.
- Is it an echo chamber? No—diversity and exploration are engineered in.
- Does skipping ban a topic? No, skipping is only a soft signal.
- Why did a story appear? Relevance, freshness, significance, or exploration.
- Why did a story vanish? The 48-hour lifecycle or already-read filtering.
- Can I reset it? Yes, you can reset your recommendations anytime.
Staying in control
The recurring theme is control: personalization is a collaboration you can steer. Follow and unfollow topics, swipe to signal preferences, and reset if the feed drifts. Nothing is permanent, and the system is designed to be forgiving and correctable.
If you want to understand or adjust anything specific, the Personalized News and Recommendation Engine articles go deeper on each mechanism.
Where to learn more
For how interests are learned, see how your interests are learned. For diversity, see how feed diversity is maintained. For why stories appear or vanish, see why articles appear in your feed and why articles disappear from your feed. For a fresh start, see resetting your recommendations.
Together these cover essentially everything about how your Headlinne feed is built and how to shape it.
Key takeaways
- ✓Headlinne learns you from behavior, scores stories on blended signals, and updates continuously.
- ✓Personalization is a collaboration you can steer, reset, and correct.
- ✓Diversity and exploration are engineered in, so the feed broadens rather than narrows.
Frequently asked questions
Can I turn off personalization?
You can reset your recommendations for a fresh start and shape the feed by following or unfollowing topics. Personalization is central to how Headlinne surfaces relevant news, but you remain in control of what it learns.
Does personalization use my data responsibly?
Personalization is based on your in-app reading and preferences to build your feed. See the privacy articles for how Headlinne handles your data.
Related Headlinne features
Related reading
Continue learning
Resetting Your Recommendations
Sometimes you want a clean slate. Learn when and how to reset your Headlinne recommendations, what a reset does, and how the feed rebuilds afterward.
How Your Interests Are Learned
Headlinne learns what you care about from how you read, not from a questionnaire. Learn how your interest profile is built, updated, and used to shape your feed.
Start reading personalized news with Headlinne
Create your free account and build a feed that learns what you care about.