Everything about testing Hey Fremont in one place: what is new, what to try, what we already know about, what we are building, and a board for your ideas.
Thank you for being here this early. Hey Fremont is being built in the open, with you. It is free, and it always will be — down the road there will be optional perks for people who want to support the site, but nothing you can do here today will ever go behind a paywall. The fastest way to make it better is telling us what works, what breaks, and what you wish it did.
These are the things we most need checked right now. Try one, then tell us how it went: Works, Broken, or a Suggestion. Once you answer, it leaves your list. When we add something new, it shows up here.
Things we already know are broken or unfinished. No need to report these; if you find something that is not here, that is the useful kind.
What we are building now and what is next. Popular ideas from the Idea Corner end up here.
Everybody can see it and vote it up or down. The most popular ideas rise to the top, and we read every one.
Everything on Hey Fremont, what it does, and why it is built the way it is.
Your member status, such as Newcomer or Regular, comes from your lifetime earned points. Your available points are yours to spend in the store. Some features also require trust standing, earned through verification, vouches and participation.
Earned by taking part and spent in the Points Store on rings, flair and sticker packs. Nothing bought with points gives anybody power over anybody else. Your status counts every point you have ever earned, so spending never moves you down.
Most things are worth a point. Winning the weekly contest is worth twenty-five.
Based on lifetime earned points, including points you have already spent.
Trust standing controls access to certain features. It has its own score, separate from your member status and store points. Earning or spending store points does not change your trust standing. Verification, vouches and participation can raise it.
Members can also use trust standing in their privacy settings to choose who can see them.
Heavier than almost anything that raises it, on purpose: weeks to build, one bad week to lose.
When you vouch for somebody you put your own standing behind them. If they turn out to be a problem and get removed, you lose roughly twice what the vouch was worth. That is what stops vouches being handed out so freely they mean nothing.
It is also how clubs get founded: somebody proposes one, invites people, and those people vouch for it. Nothing reaches staff until enough of them have.
Broke, confusing, missing, or good? Tell us. Short and specific beats polite and vague: “the search box filled itself with my email” is worth more than “search seemed off”. Only you and staff can read what you send.