Catching up, and quieting it down
What's new and where it ends, the missed band, filters, and muting a source you'd rather not hear from.
Signals is built so that scrolling to where you left off actually means you're done. A few things protect that.
What's new, and where it ends
The top of Signals tells you how much is new since you last opened it, or that nothing is. Further down, a "You're caught up" line marks where the new part ends: everything under it was already there last time. Because the order never changes, nothing can hide below something you've already read.
The missed band
Above the stream you'll sometimes see up to five posts you'd otherwise have scrolled past. Three things can put one there: someone you're close to posting after weeks of quiet, someone on your Radar doing the same, or a post several different people are discussing. Each row says which it is, so you can check the reasoning yourself, and tapping it takes you to the post in its place.
Radar widens who's eligible, never what qualifies. The long quiet stretch is still the bar, so putting ten people who post daily on your Radar doesn't turn the band into a following feed.
It's a second look, never a reorder. Every banded post is still sitting in its real chronological place in the stream below, and a post gets banded at most once, so a busy thread can't camp there.
One source going on a tear
When one source posts several times in a row, the extras fold into a single "more from…" card you can open. Nothing is dropped and nothing moves; it just stops one loud week from swallowing the screen. Somebody else posting in between starts the count over, so a real back-and-forth still surfaces more than once.
Filters
All, People, Places and Posts change what's shown, never the order. There's no sort control anywhere in Signals, by design.
Muting a source
If you want a source gone, open the menu on any of its items and mute it. That's per source, not per kind: you're quieting that one Space, venue, performer or person, not a category.
Muting removes that source's cards, so the menu you muted from goes with them. Every mute is listed and reversible under Settings, Muted, alongside the accounts you've muted app-wide. Those are two different things: muting a source here only quiets your Signals stream, while muting an account silences everything that person causes, everywhere.
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