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XP (experience points) measures your contribution to Yossed. The more you participate, the more XP you earn. XP determines your Kitchen Rank and shows the community how active and trusted you are.

There are 10 Kitchen Ranks. As you earn XP, you climb the ranks automatically. Onboarding gives you a useful start, but Commis and higher ranks require continued reviews, Deep Cuts, community activity, and helpful signals. Your rank badge appears on your profile and in the community.

Albums, tracks, and artists can be rated on a 1-5 sauce scale. The community average is displayed on each music page. Ratings are the core signal that powers your taste profile and recommendations.

• 1 sauce: Not for you
• 2 sauce: Below average
• 3 sauce: Solid
• 4 sauce: Great
• 5 sauce: Exceptional

When you and another user have rated some of the same music, Yossed calculates a taste match percentage. This compares how closely your ratings align on shared albums and tracks.

The more music you both rate, the more accurate the match becomes. A high percentage means you tend to agree on what's good and what's not.

Other users can mark your reviews as "helpful." Helpful votes are a signal that your review added value. They earn you XP and contribute to your reputation on the platform. In the Kitchen, people can also send quieter negative feedback so the feed learns without turning every take into a public argument.

The Kitchen is your personalized feed. It blends several sources:

• Following: Reviews and activity from people you follow
• Kitchen picks: Content picked based on your taste profile - artists you like, vibes you selected, patterns in your ratings, and social signals around each take
• Community signals: Reviews, shares, helpful votes, and conversations that are moving across Yossed

The more you engage (rate music, follow people, pick artists), the smarter the Kitchen gets at surfacing things you'll actually care about.

Yossed uses a combination of machine learning and real human input:

• ML models analyze rating patterns, listening behavior, and taste signals to generate recommendations
• Human reviews (your ratings, written reviews, helpful votes) provide the ground truth that trains and improves the system
• Community signals (what's trending, what's getting discussed) add a social layer on top of pure algorithmic picks

The result is a discovery system that gets better the more the community participates. It's not just an algorithm - it's thousands of real music opinions powering a smarter experience.

Browse is the wide-open discovery page. It pulls together trending picks, hidden gems, rising artists, communities, and Top Chefs so you can move from music to people and back again.

• Trending: music getting strong recent signal
• Gems: good music that has not been over-reviewed yet
• Rising: artists picking up momentum
• Top Chefs: the XP leaderboard for active listeners on Yossed

Deep Cuts are longer-form music posts. Use them for rankings, essays, arguments, discovery notes, lists, or anything that deserves more space than a quick review.

A Deep Cut can attach artist, album, or track context, which makes it easier for people to follow the take and jump into the music page afterward. Publishing one earns XP too.

The Deep Cuts review editor keeps headline and body formatting uniform across posts. You can paste existing hyperlinks or use Command/Ctrl + K to add a link, but custom fonts, colors, and rich text styling are stripped out.

Your taste profile is the foundation of your Yossed experience. It's built from:

• Favorite artists you selected during onboarding
• Vibes you chose (genres, moods, energy levels)
• Ratings you've given to albums, tracks, and artists
• Who you follow and interact with
• Communities you've joined

The taste profile progress bar on your Get Started page shows how much signal you've given Yossed. More signal = better recommendations.

When you first join, the onboarding wizard helps you set up your taste profile. The system tracks four metrics:

• Favorite artists: Pick at least 3
• Ratings: Rate at least 5 albums or tracks
• Following: Follow at least 5 listeners
• Communities: Join at least 2

You can skip steps during onboarding and come back to them later. The more you complete, the stronger your profile becomes.

Your profile has a Sauce reel for recent ratings and an All sauced page for the full shelf. The shelf includes album covers, track art, artist photos, your written take, and a quick link back to the music page.

You can also repost favorite reviews or music items to your profile so the page feels more like your current taste, not just a static archive.

Communities are group spaces built around a shared music interest - a genre, an artist, a vibe, a movement. Each one has a Room for quick posts, Discussions for bigger threads, a member list, leaders and mods, optional challenges, a logo, and a live heat score.

Anyone can browse public communities. Some communities can be invite-only, and creating one requires 100 XP, which you earn by being active on the platform.

• Join: Tap Join on any public community card, or accept an invite if the community is invite-only
• Room: Drop quick takes, attach music, comment, and boost posts
• Discussions: Start longer threads, rankings, debates, and challenge conversations
• Create: Unlock at 100 XP - give it a name, URL slug, description, and starting accent color

Every community on Yossed has a heat score. Heat measures how active and alive a community is, not just how big it is.

How heat is calculated:

• Each member adds heat
• Each discussion adds more heat
• Room posts, comments, boosts, challenge activity, and new members push it higher

Heat updates on community cards and inside each community. Start a community, post consistently, and grow the scene over time.

Creating a community requires 100 XP. You can see your current XP progress on the Communities page - there's a progress bar if you haven't hit 100 yet.

Fastest ways to hit 100 XP:

• Complete onboarding (+25 XP)
• Sign up during beta (+50 XP)
• Write 5 album or track reviews (+50 XP total)
• Publish a Deep Cut (+25 XP)
• Post and comment in community Rooms
• Add 3 favorite artists during onboarding (+15 XP)
• Set your vibes (+15 XP)
• Follow people and get followers (small amounts of XP per action)

Once you hit 100 XP, the gate lifts permanently - head to Start a community to build your scene.

Open Messages and hit New message. Pick one username for a regular one-on-one chat, or add multiple usernames to start a group chat. If there are two or more people in the thread, Yossed lets you add an optional group name too.

• 1 recipient: starts a regular direct message
• 2 or more recipients: creates a group chat
• Optional group name: keeps the thread easy to recognize later

Every DM thread has a shared daily streak. To keep it going, every person in the conversation has to send at least one message each day.

• 1:1 chats: both people need to send one message that day
• Group chats: every member needs to check in that day
• If someone misses a day: the streak drops and the next fully-complete day starts a fresh one

Streaks reset at midnight UTC. That gives every thread one shared clock no matter where people are messaging from, so group chats stay fair across time zones.

If you're already signed in, the fastest path is Settings > Email recovery > Send reset. Yossed sends a recovery link to the email on the account. Check spam or junk if it does not show up.

• Open the reset email and choose a new password.
• The new password must be at least 10 characters and include uppercase, lowercase, and a number.
• After it saves, the account can sign in with email, username, or any connected Google sign-in.
• If the link is expired or already used, send another reset email from Settings.

To change the email on an account, go to Settings > Email recovery > Change email. Enter the new email address and follow the confirmation email Yossed sends before the change becomes active. Check spam or junk if it does not show up.

• Use an email inbox you can open right away.
• If the new email is typed wrong, return to Settings and start the change again.
• Until the confirmation is complete, keep signing in with the current email or username.

Google sign-in can stay connected. If an account was created with Google only, add a regular Yossed password first before changing the email.

• Use Add password in Settings if that card appears.
• If not, use Send reset, set a password from the email link, then log in with email or username.
• After signing in with that password, return to Settings and request the email change.

This extra step keeps account changes tied to an email inbox the owner can actually access.