About WeSearch.

WeSearch is a project built around one stubborn idea: the news only matters when ordinary people can talk back to it. Our home feed pulls fresh headlines every five minutes from a hand-curated catalog of 850+ RSS and Atom feeds — every major newsroom, every relevant subreddit and Mastodon community, every editorial blog worth reading — deduplicates them, sorts them by recency, and lets you respond to any of them anonymously.

The site looks like a press magazine because that is what it is. The masthead, the kicker rules, the Cormorant Garamond serif headlines, the chronological grid — all deliberate. We are trying to look more like the morning paper than another social-feed slot machine, because the read-think-respond loop is what news is supposed to do, and ten years of feed-product design has filed those edges off everywhere else.

Why this exists

The last decade of news online quietly redesigned itself around three brittle assumptions: that an algorithm could pick a better feed for you than chronology, that a subscription wall could replace community trust, and that surveillance advertising could fund quality reporting. Most readers know those bets didn't pay off. The default news experience in 2026 is paywall flotillas, an algorithm that learned what makes you angry, and a tracker stack that follows you across the public web.

WeSearch is the inverse. No personalized ranking picks what you see—the main feed is chronological after dedupe. No WeSearch paywall blocks reading on our site (original publishers may still require a subscription). We never republish full articles to bypass paywalls; we always link back. Our privacy boundary permits limited operational analytics and CDN logs, but no display-ad network, retargeting audience, data sale, or reading-history personalization.

Who's behind it

WeSearch is built and operated by Bryan Leonard (US), as an independent project. There is no investor, no board, and no growth team.

Imagine Qira is the related operating home. WeSearch remains a community-funded public news commons — not a venture product. Direct contact: [email protected] or /support.

Hosting and bandwidth are paid for by a small group of community supporters through one-time and recurring donations — the donate button is the entire revenue stack. We've made a deliberate choice to keep the operating cost low and the audience small enough to remain readable, rather than chasing scale and falling back into the engagement game.

Accountability & methodology

• Operator: Bryan Leonard — [email protected] — single human reads /support (takedowns, corrections, source suggestions).
• Source catalog: hand-curated RSS/Atom list; adds/removes are editorial decisions, not an automated crawl of the open web.
• Bias labels: inherited primarily from public third-party ratings (AllSides / Ad Fontes style mappings) plus source metadata — not a secret proprietary model of “truth.” See editorial standards.
• AI usage: summaries and daily editorial drafts may use language models; they are labeled and are never presented as original reporting. The main feed order is not model-ranked.
• Corrections: factual errors on WeSearch-authored pages (daily editorial, product copy) are corrected in place when reported via /support. Publisher stories are linked, not rewritten.
• What “no algorithm” means: the main feed is chronological after dedupe — not “no software.” Clustering, dedupe, trending counts, and AI summaries exist and are documented on how it works and why no personalized ranking.

What WeSearch will never do

• Sell your reader data. Operational analytics are used to run the service, not sold or used for ad targeting—see our privacy stance.
• Surface news through an engagement-maximizing model. The home feed is chronological. The trending row counts community reactions only.
• Force an account. You can read, react, comment, and follow voices without ever creating one. Identity is a local key, not an email.
• Run sponsored content or native ads in the feed. If we ever offer something paid, it will be a clearly labeled separate page.
• Hide the sources behind a wall. Every story page links to the original publisher. We are aggregation, not republication.

What we publish ourselves

WeSearch is mostly a window onto other people's reporting, but we do publish a small amount of original work: a daily editorial summary at /daily that runs through the day's main stories with a single editor's voice; an AI-overseer pulse that surfaces patterns across the feed (clearly labeled as AI-assisted commentary, never as reported news); and a small set of editorial standards that explain how we curate the feed list, when we add or remove a source, and what we do when a publisher complains.

How to talk to us

Feedback, takedowns, source suggestions, partnership questions — /support or email [email protected]. One human. Replies usually within a working day. WeSearch stays anonymous by default; you only share an email if you want a reply. If you want to support the project financially, /donate is the place.

If you have a few minutes, the next two pages worth reading are how it works (the actual technical pipeline behind the feed) and why no algorithm (the argument for chronology over personalization).

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