Discover

Discover is a news reader inside DonutChat. Read articles picked for you in For You, browse curated Topics, keep articles in Saved, and talk about any article with other people.

For You

Open Discover > For You to see articles chosen for you. Each article shows the website, when it was published, the title and a short summary. More articles load as you scroll. At the end of the list, select Refresh feed for new recommendations.

Until you choose interests, For You shows Choose your interests and Skip for now. On iPhone, Android and the desktop app, a notice also shows which languages For You uses. Select Change feed languages to change them, or Got it to dismiss the notice.

For You is shaped by:

Your feed languages and interests.
Articles you like, save or mark More like this, and articles you spend time reading.
Topics whose chat you’ve joined.
How recent and popular articles are.

It leaves out articles you marked Not interested or reported, and articles from websites you hid. It also never fills in with other languages when there are few articles in yours. If For You is empty, change your feed languages or interests, or browse Topics.

Read an article

Select an article to open it. On iPhone and Android, it opens in the publisher’s app if you have it installed, and otherwise in DonutChat’s in-app browser. In the web app, it opens in a new browser tab. See Links and the in-app browser.

Like, save and tune articles

Each article has these buttons:

Button	What it does
Like	Likes the article. The number next to it is the total number of likes. Select again (Unlike) to undo.
Save	Adds the article to Saved. Select again (Unsave) to remove it.
Personalize feed (…)	Opens options for tuning your feed (below).
Discuss	Opens the article’s public discussion.

The Personalize feed options take effect right away, without asking you to confirm:

Option	What it does
More like this	Asks for more articles like this one and refreshes For You.
Not interested	Removes the article from For You.
Hide source	Stops showing articles from the article’s website in For You.
Report article	Removes the article from For You.

To see articles from a hidden website again, see Choose interests and hidden websites.

Saved

Articles you save are in Discover > Saved, whatever their language. To remove one, select Unsave.

Saved articles are separate from Bookmarks, where you keep messages and web pages.

Topics

Topics are curated collections of articles about a subject, such as technology, world news or business, plus regional news in several languages.

Open Discover > Topics. Each topic shows its name, a short description and a few of its articles.
Select a topic’s name to open it. You see its description, Join Chat and its full list of articles.
To add the topic’s chat to your Chats list, select Join Chat. The chat opens, and the button then reads Open Chat.

A topic chat is read-only. You can’t post in the main conversation, but you can reply in a thread under any post. To undo joining, leave the chat as you would any other chat (see Leave a chat).

Search topics and articles

In Discover > Topics, select Search topics and articles.
Type at least 2 characters. Results appear under Topics and Articles.
Select a topic to open it, or an article to read it.

Search matches topic names and descriptions, and article titles and summaries. It doesn’t search the full text of articles. You see up to 5 topics and 20 articles. To return to the list of topics, clear the search field.

Discuss an article

Each article has one public discussion, named after the article. Anyone on DonutChat can open it, read it and take part, so don’t post anything you want to keep private.

Select Discuss on an article. The discussion opens, and you can read it without joining.
To take part, send a message. Your first message joins you to the discussion and adds it to your Chats list.

A discussion you join starts out muted, so you aren’t notified of new messages unless someone mentions you. To get notifications for every message, unmute it (see Mute a chat).

Choose feed languages

Feed languages decide which languages For You articles are in. They’re separate from the app’s own language, and they’re saved to your account, so they apply on all your devices.

Go to Profile > Content preferences > Feed languages, or tap Change feed languages in Discover.
Tap Match app language to read in the app’s language, or select one or more languages under Specific languages.
Tap Save.

You can choose English, 한국어, 日本語, Español, Français, 中文, Deutsch, Português, العربية and हिन्दी. The iPhone and Android apps are available in English, Español, Français, 한국어 and 日本語, so to read articles in any other language there, select it under Specific languages.

Choose interests and hidden websites

Interests tell For You which subjects you like. Hidden websites are the ones you’ve hidden with Hide source.

Go to Profile > Content preferences > Discover interests, or tap Choose your interests in For You.
Tap the interests you want.
To see articles from a hidden website again, tap its Show again button under Hidden sources.
Tap Save preferences.

You can hide up to 200 websites.

Discover in the desktop app

Open Discover (⌘2 or Ctrl+2). It has four tabs, For You, Saved, Feeds and Interests, and a Refresh button. There are no Topics and no Discuss. Differences from the other apps:

Paging: click Load more to see more articles.
Reading: click Read or the headline to open an article in your web browser.
Saving: click the bookmark button (Save for later).
Tuning: an article’s More options menu has More like this (or Undo more like this), Not interested…, Hide source… and Report…. The last three ask you to confirm. Not interested… and Report… hide the article; Hide source… stops recommending the article’s website.
Comments: click an article’s Comments button, which shows how many comments it has. Write in Add a comment… (up to 2,000 characters) and click Post comment. Use Delete… on your own comments, or Report… to hide someone else’s comment for you. Desktop comments are separate from Discuss in the other apps, and neither shows the other’s posts.
Feeds: search news feeds by publisher or topic, browse them by category, and click Join feed conversation to follow a feed in a read-only chat where its new articles are posted.

For feed languages, interests and hidden websites, see Choose feed languages and Choose interests and hidden websites.