What is the Discovery feed?

Discovery is PostSnag's shared feed of standout posts pulled from every profile the whole PostSnag community tracks, not only the profiles you've personally captured, so you see what's working across far more Facebook content than sits in your own library.

Open it from Discovery in the left navigation. Its subtitle: "Viral posts surfacing across the creators you track."

[Screenshot: The Discovery feed with the Recent and Trending sort chips and a grid of posts]

Recent vs. Trending

Two chips control the sort, not a dropdown:

• Trending (selected by default): ranks posts by a weighted score. A reaction counts once, a comment counts four times as much, and a share counts three times as much, so a highly-commented or widely-shared post can outrank one that only picked up likes.

• Recent: ranks posts by publish date, newest first.

Behind the scenes, Discovery pulls from up to 120 shared posts across the community, groups them by creator, ranks each creator's own posts against each other, then round-robins creator by creator so one especially active profile can't fill the whole feed with its own posts. What you actually see is capped at 60 posts: a mix across creators, not a single account's entire output.

Jumping to a profile

Above the grid, a horizontal row of up to 10 profile chips, avatar, name, and @handle, lets you jump straight to a tracked profile's own page without searching for it in your library.

What you can do with a Discovery post

Discovery uses the same post cards as the rest of the dashboard, so you're not limited to just browsing. Click the bookmark icon on any card to save it straight to Bookmarks, open its ··· menu to add it to a folder, or click anywhere else on the card to open the real post on Facebook in a new tab, the same as you would from your own Profiles library.

Where Discovery's posts come from

Discovery draws from a shared, community-wide dataset. Once any PostSnag user captures a profile's public posts, that data can surface in Discovery for everyone, not only the person who captured it. That's also why a popular profile sometimes already has posts showing the first time you look at it. Only public post data is ever part of this, the same content anyone visiting that profile could already see; your own account details, Bookmarks, and Folders are never shared. See How does the shared Discovery dataset work? for the full picture.

Who sees Discovery

Every account sees Discovery, including a brand-new one with nothing captured yet, and it's available the same way on every plan. It isn't scoped to your own captures the way Profiles or Analytics is, since it's a community feed by design.

About the "top 1%" description

PostSnag's pricing page lists Discovery as a "Discovery feed (top 1%)" feature. That's shorthand for what Discovery is built to do, surface standout, high-performing posts rather than a full unfiltered stream of everything captured, not a precise percentile recalculated for every individual post. The real, live mechanic behind Discovery is the Recent and Trending sort described above. See What is an outlier post, and what does 'top 1%' mean? for the full explanation.

If the feed looks empty

A quiet stretch shows "No posts to show yet. Check back soon as the community feed fills up."

Common questions

Does Discovery only show posts I've captured myself?
No. It draws from the shared pool of public posts captured by PostSnag users generally, not just your own account.

What does "Trending" actually rank by?
A weighted score: reactions count once, comments count four times as much, and shares count three times as much.

Can one profile take over the whole Discovery feed?
No. Posts are grouped and round-robined by creator first, so a single prolific profile doesn't crowd out everyone else, and the feed is capped at 60 posts.

Is Discovery only available on paid plans?
No. Every account sees Discovery, Free included.

Can I bookmark or save a post I find in Discovery?
Yes. Every post card in Discovery has the same bookmark icon and "Add to folder" option you'd see anywhere else in the dashboard.

Are Discovery posts the same as "top 1%" posts?
Discovery is where PostSnag surfaces standout, high-performing posts, which is the idea behind that phrase, but it isn't a literal percentile stamped on each post. See What is an outlier post, and what does 'top 1%' mean?