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Explore helps you find Posts, Recipes, collections, and photographers beyond the accounts you already know. It’s personalised, not random. What appears changes as Recipe Room learns more about what you choose to follow, save, open, search for, and engage with.

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What shapes Explore

Recipe Room can learn from signals such as:
  • The photographers you follow.
  • The Recipes, Posts, and collections you save.
  • The Posts and Recipes you like or comment on.
  • The cameras, film simulations, tags, and creators you search for.
  • The linked Recipes you open from Posts.
  • The Posts, Recipes, and collections you publish.
  • Your choices to show more or fewer Posts like something.
Repeated interests matter more than one accidental tap. Saving several night Recipes and following photographers who work after dark is a stronger signal than briefly opening one night photograph.

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The current Explore mix

Explore starts with this recommendation mix:
  • 60% tailored to your interests and activity.
  • 20% trending across the wider Recipe Room community, including work outside your usual interests.
  • 20% latest eligible content, so newly published work has a chance to be seen.
Trending means work receiving meaningful attention across the community now. It is not simply the most popular work of all time. Latest means recently published work that is eligible to appear in Explore, whether or not it has already built up engagement. If there is not enough activity to form a useful trending set, that share can be filled with latest eligible content until there is. This is Recipe Room’s current starting mix, not a promise that every refresh will contain an exact split. We may adjust it as the community grows and we learn how well the recommendations work for both established and new members.

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What you can find

Explore can introduce you to:
  • Posts from photographers you don’t follow yet.
  • Recipes built around cameras or film simulations you use.
  • Posts showing the same Recipe in different conditions.
  • Public collections built around a look, project, or place.
  • Forks that take a Recipe in a different direction.
  • Work just outside your usual interests.
The aim is to give you useful variety without leaving you lost in unrelated content.

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Help recommendations improve

You don’t need to configure a complicated interest profile. Use Recipe Room normally and be deliberate with the actions that matter:
  1. Follow photographers whose work you want to keep seeing.
  2. Save Recipes and Posts you genuinely want to return to.
  3. Build collections around real interests.
  4. Search for cameras, simulations, places, and styles you care about.
  5. Use Show more and Show fewer when a recommendation is especially useful or unhelpful.

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New accounts

Explore has less information when an account is new. The cameras, film simulations, and photography interests chosen during setup give it a useful starting point. These choices seed recommendations rather than fixing them in place. Follow a few photographers, save useful work, and search for a camera or style you know. What you open, create, follow, save, search for, and ask to see more or less of helps the profile develop beyond those first choices.

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Review or reset your feed preferences

Open Photography preferences in Account Settings, then choose Your feed to see a current snapshot of what is shaping your recommendations. Swipe between three views:
  • Photography shows the tags influencing your feed.
  • Film simulations shows the simulations appearing most in photographs you engage with.
  • Cameras shows the camera models appearing most in photographs you engage with.
Each view shows your nine strongest affinities and groups the rest under Other. The percentages describe the current mix, not a history of everything you have viewed and not a promise that every recommendation will match it exactly. Choose Reset when you want to start your recommendation preferences again. This clears your selected preferences and the activity currently shaping your feed, including what Recipe Room has learned to show or avoid. You can then choose a new starting set, and Recipe Room will rebuild the profile from what you choose and do next. Resetting doesn’t remove your account, saves, Posts, Recipes, or collections. Work you have already published can still help describe your photography because it remains part of the work you make. My Gear is separate. It records which cameras you own so Recipes can show compatibility, but changing My Gear doesn’t add or remove feed-ranking signals. Read Your Profile for more.

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Explore doesn’t promise placement

Publishing a Recipe, linking a Post, or adding accurate tags gives Recipe Room more context about the work. Recipes and Recipe-linked Posts can therefore create stronger discovery routes than an unlinked Post alone. They still do not guarantee a position or amount of exposure in Explore. Within the 60/20/20 mix, recommendations can consider relevance, quality, community interest, recency, and other product signals. Read Getting Discovered to understand how Recipes, linked Posts, profiles, collections, Search, and Explore can lead people to your work.

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Your controls

Personalisation changes what Recipe Room shows you. It doesn’t change who owns the content. You can hide an item, ask for more or fewer similar Posts, mute an account, or block someone when you need stronger separation. Read Personal Controls for the difference between each option.