A private place for neighbors
Residents see announcements, ask questions, and keep in touch without a group chat or a mailing list. The board sees the same conversation, with the ability to post officially and remove what should not be there.
How residents get in
A resident enters their email on the community portal and receives a six-digit code. No password to remember, no separate account to create, and nothing to keep in sync with the board's records.
- Access comes from the ownership or tenancy record, so moving out removes it
- Codes are stored hashed, expire after 15 minutes, and work once
- An address that is not a resident gets the same answer as one that is, so the page cannot be used to find out who lives there
What is in the feed
- Announcements pinned to the top, marked official when a board member posts them
- Threaded replies, one level deep, so a question and its answers stay together
- Reactions, because a thumbs-up is often the whole reply
- Your own posts can be edited or removed; removed posts leave a tombstone rather than vanishing
- A names-only neighbor directory: who lives here, without publishing contact details
What the board controls
- Whether the portal is published at all, and the banner, tagline, and accent colour it carries
- A welcome post created when the portal is published, pinned by default
- Community guidelines shown to residents, and moderation of any post
- Invitations, sent from settings, with a count of who was reached
What is not built yet
Writing plainly, because a resident will notice: image attachments are not supported, there is no resident-facing report button or moderation queue, and there are no email notifications for new posts. Moderation today is a staff member reading the feed.
Try it
The demo community is public and signs itself in, so you can read the feed, open a post, and see how moderation looks without creating anything.