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33 recent updates from 9 projects
The community-supplies sharing site for the Sunset and Richmond neighborhoods received a round of fixes that resolved crashes when uploading photos on phones and smoothed out the full flow for adding new items. These improvements mean more residents can successfully post supplies to share without hitting dead ends, especially people browsing on mobile devices. Builders working on inventory or sharing tools may find the upload flow patterns here worth exploring.
The sunsetpeople project now has a proper description explaining what it is: a guide for finding community in the Sunset neighborhood. This makes the project legible to neighbors and potential collaborators who might discover it, replacing placeholder text with a clear statement of purpose. Other builders looking for examples of neighborhood guide projects can now understand at a glance what sunsetpeople is trying to do.
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The community-supplies platform for Sunset and Richmond now includes a forgot password flow, making it easier for neighbors to recover access to their accounts without needing outside help. This is a small but meaningful step for keeping the sharing site accessible to everyone in the community, especially people who don't use the platform every day and might forget their credentials.
Outer Sunset Today added a custom alert system and a daily weather alert that runs automatically each day, keeping neighbors informed about conditions that affect their plans. Timely, locally relevant alerts help community members make better decisions about events and outdoor activities without having to seek out that information themselves. Other calendar builders working on proactive notifications or automated community updates may find this a useful pattern to explore.
Community Supplies added a discovery map that lets neighbors visually explore where sharing is happening across the Sunset and Richmond neighborhoods, backed by seeded location data and community pin auditing to keep listings trustworthy. This makes it easier for people to find supplies near them at a glance, rather than sorting through lists. The update also included polished flows throughout the site, making the overall experience smoother for both new and returning community members.
Welcome sunsetpeople to the Relational Technology Network! This project is a guide for finding community in the Sunset, and we are so glad to have it here. Check out the repository and show some love to this wonderful addition to our growing network.
Welcome to the Relational Technology Network, **neighborhood-api**! 🎉 This exciting project is working to build an API for our neighborhoods, and we're thrilled to have it as part of our growing community. Check out the repository at [github.com/The-Relational-Technology-Project/neighborhood-api](https://github.com/The-Relational-Technology-Project/neighborhood-api) and follow along as it takes shape!
Welcome to the Relational Tech Network, community-supplies! 🎉 This project is building a supplies sharing site for the Sunset and Richmond community, making it easier for neighbors to share resources with one another. We're so glad to have you here and can't wait to see this project grow!
Community Supplies, a sharing site for the Sunset and Richmond neighborhoods, now routes notification emails to community stewards, making sure the right people hear about requests and offers as they come in. This kind of direct communication pathway helps stewards stay on top of activity without having to check in manually, keeping a supplies-sharing network responsive and alive. Other builders running similar mutual aid or resource-sharing tools may find this pattern useful for keeping their own coordinators in the loop.
The community-supplies site for the Sunset and Richmond neighborhoods now has an 'Invite Neighbors' button, making it easier for residents to bring friends and neighbors into the supplies sharing network. Growing a mutual aid platform depends on word of mouth, and this gives current users a simple way to expand the community from within the tool itself.
The community-supplies platform for Sunset and Richmond got a significant round of foundational work, including user authentication, a welcome email flow for new members, and a 'join mode' for onboarding. Security hardening and access control fixes were also applied, so the people sharing supplies in these neighborhoods can trust that their accounts and data are protected. Builders working on member-based sharing platforms may find the onboarding and permissions patterns here worth a look.
The community-supplies platform for Sunset and Richmond has grown into a multi-community tool, adding support for multiple neighborhoods to share supplies through a single system, along with a self-serve onboarding flow so new stewards can set up and manage their own community without needing developer help. This makes it much easier for other neighborhoods to adopt and run their own supplies-sharing space independently. The update also tightened access and security policies so that community data stays appropriately scoped to the right members.
The community-supplies platform for Sunset and Richmond got a significant set of improvements, including bulk image uploading with automatic compression, lazy loading, and pagination for browsing available supplies. These changes make it easier for neighbors to add many items at once and for visitors to browse a growing inventory without slow load times. A bug that could crash the app due to browser storage issues was also fixed, making the experience more reliable for everyone.
Welcome to the Relational Technology Network, tiny-times! We're so glad to have you here and can't wait to see what you're building. Check out their repository and follow along as this project grows: https://github.com/The-Relational-Technology-Project/tiny-times
Tiny Times launched a full neighborhood newspaper tool, built from the ground up with a design system, configuration screens, an illustration library, and a print-first two-page layout. This means communities can now produce a real, printable local newspaper complete with coloring images, section icons, and city and world graphics, all through a guided setup flow. Builders working on hyperlocal print or zine projects will find a lot to learn from here.
The Cozy Corner hub for 48th Ave just made its notification system safer by moving personal email addresses out of the code and into protected configuration. This protects the personal information of whoever manages the tool and is a good reminder for any project that notification emails or contact info can accidentally end up visible in public code repositories. A small change with real consequences for the people behind the scenes.
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Outer Sunset Today expanded its community calendar by consolidating existing Sunset events and adding listings from Sunset Commons. Neighbors now have a more complete picture of what's happening in the neighborhood, all in one place. This kind of event aggregation work is a great model for other local calendar projects looking to grow their coverage by pulling in community venues one by one.
The Sunset and Richmond supplies sharing site now lets neighbors search for items across multiple connected communities at once, using a full-text search system that spans a federated network of participating neighborhoods. This means someone looking for a specific tool or supply is no longer limited to what their immediate neighbors have listed, and other community supply projects can now connect to share their inventories too. Builders working on mutual aid or resource-sharing platforms may find the federated search approach here worth exploring for their own networks.
The community supplies sharing site for Sunset and Richmond now has a working search experience, with search and clear buttons wired up so neighbors can actually find what they're looking for in the catalog. This makes it much easier for people to browse available supplies without scrolling through everything, which matters a lot as a sharing inventory grows. Other builders working on resource-sharing or inventory tools may find this a useful pattern for making catalogs more navigable.
We're so excited to welcome **sunset-walking-guide** to the Relational Technology Network! This project is a wonderful addition to our growing community of tools and experiments exploring technology in a more human, connected way. Head over to [the repository](https://github.com/The-Relational-Technology-Project/sunset-walking-guide) to check it out and show some love!
The neighborhood-api project added a Builder contact section to its watcher feed, giving people who follow the project a clear way to reach the humans behind the work. This kind of direct connection helps collaborators, neighbors, and other builders know who to reach out to with questions, ideas, or offers to help.
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The community-supplies project added a Builder contact section to its watcher feed, making it easier for people following the platform to reach the humans behind it. This kind of direct connection between builders and community members helps foster trust and opens the door for feedback, collaboration, and support. Other projects running watcher or update feeds might find this a useful pattern for keeping their communities in the loop.
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Outer Sunset Today has added an MIT License and a Builder contact section for the watcher feed, making the project more open and connectable for other community developers. The license clarifies that others are welcome to reuse and adapt this work, and the contact section gives builders a clear way to reach out and plug in. Small additions like these make the difference between a project that exists and one that can grow a network around it.
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Outer Sunset Today added a Custom Updates feature that lets community members submit their own updates directly through the calendar, with email alerts and CAPTCHA protection built in to keep submissions trustworthy. This opens up the calendar to broader community participation, so neighbors can contribute local information rather than relying on a single maintainer to keep things current. The addition of spam protection and notification emails means the team can stay on top of submissions without being overwhelmed.
Welcome to the network, Outer Sunset Today! 🎉 This community calendar project is a wonderful addition, helping neighbors stay connected and informed about what's happening around them. We're so glad to have you here and can't wait to see it grow!
Outer Sunset Today added a neighborhood news section that pulls in local headlines from RSS feeds and surfaces them alongside the community calendar on a redesigned homepage dashboard. Residents now get a richer at-a-glance view of what's happening in the Outer Sunset, combining events and local news in one place. Other builders working on community information hubs may find the RSS aggregation pipeline and dashboard layout worth a closer look.
Welcome to the network, local-first-auth-simulator! 🎉 This handy development tool makes it easier to test Local First Auth mini-apps by injecting window.localFirstAuth directly into your browser during development. We're thrilled to have this project in the community and can't wait to see how it supports builders working in the local-first space!
Welcome to the network, Local First Auth! 🎉 This project is bringing something exciting to the local-first ecosystem: simple, client-side authentication for web apps using decentralized identity, with no servers, no passwords, and no third-party auth providers required. We're thrilled to have you here and can't wait to see how your work connects with others building toward a more user-controlled web.
The local-first-auth-simulator has been updated to version 1.5.0, renamed to align with the Local First Auth naming convention, and now includes documentation for the Relational Tech Network. This tool helps developers building community apps test authentication flows in their browser without needing a full production environment, making it easier to iterate quickly on local-first neighborhood tools.
Welcome to the network, cozy-corner! 🎉 This neighbor hub for 48th Ave in the Outer Sunset is a wonderful addition to our growing community of relational tech projects. We're so glad to have you here and can't wait to see the connections you help build!
Cozy Corner, the neighbor hub for 48th Ave in the Outer Sunset, now supports SMS reminders alongside its existing notification options, letting residents get street and event reminders sent directly to their phones. This is a meaningful accessibility win for neighbors who rely on text messaging rather than apps or email to stay connected with their block. Builders working on neighborhood tools with mixed communication needs can look to this as a working example of supporting multiple reminder channels in one system.
The community-supplies project for Sunset and Richmond got a significant overhaul, including a redesigned homepage, a new flow for starting a community, and a table for tracking steward requests. These additions make it easier for neighbors to step up as stewards and for new communities to get started with supplies sharing. Builders working on mutual aid or resource-sharing tools may find the steward request and community onboarding patterns here worth a look.
The Cozy Corner hub for 48th Ave got a significant expansion to its bulletin board, including a new footer section and a Community Guide card that surfaces local resources for neighbors. These additions give the hub more surface area for sharing neighborhood context and connecting residents to what matters on their block. Other builders working on hyper-local neighbor hubs may find this a useful reference for how to layer community information into a compact interface.