# Finding characters > How discovery ranks characters, which filters exist, and what to read on a character profile before you start. Source: https://reverie.im/en/docs/getting-started/finding-characters Language: en There is no single Reverie search box. Characters surface through a handful of separate places, each with its own lens, and search is something you do inside one of them. ## Where characters surface \[#where-characters-surface] | Surface | What it shows | | -------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Home** | **Continue** (chats you already have), **Recommended for you**, **New & noteworthy**, a collections rail and the 12 latest moments | | **Characters** | The whole catalogue, with the sorts and filters below | | **Hashtags** | Tags carrying at least 10 public characters, up to 500 of them, ordered by how many characters use each | | **Collections** | Themed sets assembled by Reverie staff — see [Collections](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/collections) | | **Creator profiles** | Everything one creator has published, at `/u/` | ## Sorting the catalogue \[#sorting-the-catalogue] | Sort | Orders by | Who sees it | | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | | **Recommended** | The personalised order described below — **this is the default** | Everyone | | **Popular** | Popularity score, highest first | Everyone | | **New & noteworthy** | A seven-day early-traction score recomputed daily, then most recently published | Everyone | | **Recently updated** | Last edit, newest first | Everyone | | **Following** | Creators you follow | Signed in | | **Favorites** | Characters you favourited | Signed in | | **My Characters** | Characters you created | Signed in | ## Filters \[#filters] Alongside the sort chips you get the search box, **Browse all hashtags**, a **Card videos** switch, **Reset filters** and a **Filters** panel: **Category**, **Gender** (All, Male, Female, Non-binary, Other, Unspecified), **Tags** (up to five; a character must carry every one you pick), **Richness** and **Features**. On **My Characters** the panel adds three sections that apply to your own list only: **Sort by** (**Last edited**, **First published** or **Date created**), **Status** (**Published**, **Link only** or **Unpublished**) and **Age** — the age set on the character, in ranges, or **Not set**. Two account-level settings also shape every grid: * **Tag preferences** (**Settings → Preferences**) — up to 10 tags you want to see and up to 10 you don't. The "want to see" list applies while browsing; the "don't want to see" list applies everywhere, including search and tag pages. * **The 18+ switch** — the SFW / 18+ control in the navigation, mirrored at **Settings → Preferences → Content filter**. It is off by default and turning it on asks you to confirm you are 18 or older. > There is no language filter, no content-rating filter and no time-window > filter — nothing that shows "top this month" or "published this week". > **New & noteworthy** is the only recency-weighted sort, and your interface > language changes translations rather than which characters you see. ## How Recommended ranks \[#how-recommended-ranks] Recommended adapts to how much you have chatted, and only ever reads metadata — which characters you opened, their categories, their gender, whether they are marked 18+ — never the contents of your conversations. Your most recent chats count for more than older ones, out of the last 20. | Your history | What the order uses | | ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Signed out, or 1–2 chats | Featured characters first, then popularity score, then average rating | | 3–5 chats | Your three most-chatted categories | | 6 or more chats | Adds a gender lean when more than 60% of your weighted chats point one way, and your 18+ setting | Characters you have already chatted with are dropped from the list, and **a share of every page is reserved for characters published in the last seven days by creators you follow**. ## The popularity score \[#the-popularity-score] Recomputed daily for every public character, from these signals, in roughly this order of importance: | Signal | | --------------------------------- | | Total conversations | | Average rating | | Conversations in the last 30 days | | Number of reviews | | Favourites | Each signal is capped, so no single number can dominate. A newly published character also gets a cold-start boost that fades away over its first **30 days**, so new work surfaces before it has any history. ## Search \[#search] Search is per-surface: the Characters page searches characters (no account needed), the Stories page searches stories (signed in only). Moments, hashtags and creators have no search at all. | You type | It matches | | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------ | | `#tag` | That exact tag, in your language or the original | | `@name` | Any character whose name contains that text | | Anything else | Name or bio containing that text | Terms combine with AND, so `tutor #regency` finds regency-tagged characters whose name or bio mentions a tutor. Order matters: the parser starts a new term at each `#` or `@`, so `#regency tutor` is read as one tag named "regency tutor" and finds nothing. Put plain words first. Character results stop after 15 pages (3 when signed out), story results after 3. ## What to read on a profile \[#what-to-read-on-a-profile] The top of the page carries the character's name and gender, a short bio, **Created by** with a link to the creator, and their categories and tags — tapping a tag searches for it. The buttons beside them are **Start chat**, **Favorite**, **Share** and report. Below that, sections appear only when the character has that kind of content: **Scenarios**, **Gallery**, **Snapshots**, **Reviews**, **Shared chats**, **Novels**, **Moments**, **Bounties** and **Stickers**. Reviews and bounties stay visible even when empty, so you can add the first one. Scenarios and shared chats are the two most useful signals before you commit: scenarios show the situations the creator designed for, and shared chats show how the character actually reads in play. ## Related \[#related] **[Discovery](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/discovery)** Every surface Reverie uses to show you something new. **[Hashtags](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/hashtags)** How tags become browsable pages. **[Following creators](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/following-creators)** What following changes in your feed. **[Reviews and notes](https://reverie.im/en/docs/characters/reviews-and-notes)** What the rating on a card is made of. **[Your first conversation](https://reverie.im/en/docs/getting-started/first-chat)** Once you have picked someone.