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The Community page ​

The Community page is where MotherFluxer creations are shared publicly. Open it from Community in the sidebar. It has three tabs:

  • Slop — a woven feed of everything everyone has published. Browse, search, and favorite what other people have made.
  • Co-op — a collaborative, time-boxed building game where the community grows one creation together, round by round.
  • Gigs — paid work. Post a request for something you want made, or take someone else's and get paid for it.

Your Profile isn't a tab — tap Profile in the top bar to open it from anywhere in the community, and select Exit profile to return to the tab you were on. On your Profile, your handle sits at the right of the bar; tap it to view or change it. The Profile has three sections, switched the same way as the tabs:

  • Posts — what you've shared, started and favorited: your Favorites, Your shared work, Your co-ops and Your gigs. The search and type filter narrow your favorites and your shared work.
  • Earnings — what your posts, co-ops and gigs have earned, and what's on the way.
  • Public profile — how other people see you, changed in place.

The top bar also carries the post button for the tab you're on: + Slop on Slop, + Co-op on Co-op, and + Gig on Gigs.

Anything you publish is a public copy that anyone can view without signing in. Your original stays private and editable in your own account, and it stays entirely separate — keep working on it, or delete it, and the post is untouched either way.

Your handle ​

Your handle is your public identity on the Community — something like swift-otter-k3m9. It's created automatically for you, it's the only thing about you that's ever public, and your email and real name are never shown. Attribution is always anonymous by design.

You can change your handle any time from your Profile: tap your handle at the right of the top bar, choose Change, type a new one, and Save. A handle is 3 to 40 lowercase letters, numbers and single hyphens. Handles are unique, so if the one you want is taken you'll be asked to choose another. There's a limit on how often you can change it.

The Slop feed ​

The Slop tab is a borderless, woven feed of every public artifact — tiles of different shapes packed together rather than a uniform grid. Scroll to load more; it keeps fetching as you go.

  • Sort — Trending (the default), Popular, or Recent.
  • Filter by type — All, Productivity (Documents and Apps), or Media (Images, Videos, Audio, and 3D); picking a category reveals its types as pills.
  • Search — find items by name, description, or a tag they were posted with. A search also finds co-ops by their title or tags, across every co-op there is, and weaves the matches into the results.
  • Multi-page images flip through their pages right in the feed, so you can preview every page of an image without opening it. Single-page items stay still.
  • Active co-ops appear right in the feed as live tiles alongside everyone's artifacts — open one to jump into the building game and see its latest combined result. More of them load as you scroll, so no co-op is left out however many there are.
  • Open any tile to read, play, or download it in its full view.

Publish your work ​

Publish using + Slop in the top bar, which opens the Post to Slop panel:

  • Give it a Title (required) and, optionally, a Description and up to five tags.
  • Pick the artifact to post from the reel of your work below.
  • Click Post.

You'll see Posted to Slop, and the item goes live immediately for everyone to browse in Slop. A post shares everything inside the artifact, so there is nothing to tick: its looks, items and groups also appear under Community in the matching editor menus, each a one-tap copy for anyone to place. Only finished artifacts can be published (images, videos, audio, documents, 3D, and Apps). Every post is checked automatically before it appears, so now and then you'll see a note that it's being reviewed instead.

An image is posted exactly as your editor draws it — every page with all its effects, stickers and drawings, at full resolution, the same picture Export saves — and its tile in the feed is cut from that same picture. Posting an image with heavy effects can take a few seconds while it's prepared; if it can't be prepared, you'll see Couldn't prepare your image for posting. Try again. and nothing is posted.

A post is a snapshot in time ​

A post keeps a copy of your work exactly as it was the moment you posted it. Editing your own version afterwards changes nothing that anyone else sees, and nothing you post can change under the people looking at it.

  • You get about five minutes to fix a mistake. Post the same artifact again within that window and it replaces what you posted — the same post, the same address, the same favorites.
  • That window closes the instant anyone engages with it. A favorite, a comment, a download, or someone taking their own copy ends it immediately, even seconds in. After that the post can't be replaced at all — you can only remove it.
  • Posting something again after that makes a new post, starting at zero favorites and zero views, because favorites belong to what people actually saw.
  • You can't post the same thing twice. If you already have it up, you'll be told so instead of getting a duplicate. If you removed it, you'll need to wait about a day before posting the identical item again.

Posts are checked before they appear ​

Everything you post to the community — a Slop post, a co-op, an entry in a co-op, a gig, or a comment — is checked automatically against the Community Standards before anyone else sees it. Most posts go up straight away.

  • Held for review. If the check flags something, your post is saved but not shown to anyone until a person on our team has reviewed it. You'll see Thanks — this is being reviewed and will appear once it's approved., and we email you saying what was held, which Community Standards rule it may break, and how to ask for a review. If the reviewer finds nothing wrong, it appears.
  • Refused. If the check finds it clearly breaks the Community Standards, nothing is posted and you'll see This can't be posted, with a note that you can contact us from Help if you think that's wrong.

Sharing an App: data, secrets, and AI ​

When you share an App to the community — by posting it to Slop or starting a co-op with it — it's prepared so other people can safely use it:

  • Your keys' values never leave you. No one who opens, runs or saves a shared App ever sees a key's value, and a key typed straight into one of its files is redacted. A posted App runs with your keys without showing them; a copy someone saves, and a co-op, start with none of your keys at all.
  • What you told the AI stays private. Your App's brief, its assistant's persona, its installed features' guides, its reference documents, its files whose names start with a dot and the record of how it was made never go with it.
  • Each person pays for their own AI. On a posted App, every visitor who uses its AI pays for what they use, signed in to their own account — never from your credits. A copy someone saves is theirs, so its AI is billed to them, and its assistant stays off until they write their own persona.
  • Posting an App to Slop never shares its data. A posted App starts with empty lists of its own, which collect what its visitors save, and anyone who saves their own copy starts with no data.
  • Starting a co-op with an App, you choose what happens to its data. When you Start a new co-op, you pick one of three options for any data the App has stored:
    • Start empty — the data is cleared and every copy begins fresh. Most private.
    • Keep and share — the data comes along and everyone using the App can both read and add to it, so it grows as one shared, communal dataset. The line under this choice spells it out: anyone using the App can see the data and add to it.
    • Keep, read-only — the data comes along and everyone can read it, but no one can change it.
  • People's personal details are never shared. If any of the App's lists hold sign-ups, emails, phone numbers or other sensitive fields, the co-op can only start empty. Choose either keep option for such an App and you'll see This App's data can't be shared, naming the lists that are the reason.

A posted App runs on its page ​

An App posted to Slop isn't just shown — it runs. Open one and the App fills the top of its page, ready to use, exactly as its author posted it. View code switches to its code, and Use the App switches back. A posted App is frozen: its author's later changes never reach it, and its code can't be edited after posting.

When you post an App, the Post to Slop panel asks What your posted App runs with:

  • Display only — the page alone: no saved data, actions or AI. Free.
  • Interactive — the default. Visitors save data in a shared space, run its actions with your keys, and pay for their own AI. Free while no one uses it.
  • Upgraded — Interactive, on a database or server of its own, on your account: tick Its own database, Its own server, or both. A database takes one of your account's database slots under the same monthly add-on as your Apps' own databases; a server is metered like your Apps' servers and needs an App that runs one. Both need a payment method on your account.

A posted App can only gain services, never lose them. To open a Display only post to visitors, open it and choose Make interactive from the three-line menu beside its heart; you'll see Visitors can now use your App. To give it a database or server of its own later, choose Upgrade… from the same menu. If the App has sign-in, each visitor signs in on the post with one press, as a guest of their own, and joins the groups its poster ticked; a guest account is deleted 30 days after its last visit. A posted App takes no payments. Its AI works for visitors who are signed in, each paying for what they use.

Save a post to your artifacts ​

To keep your own copy of something posted to Slop, open it and choose Save to artifacts from the three-line menu beside its heart. The copy opens straight away in its editor, yours to edit and keep, separate from the post. You need to be signed in; signed out, you'll see Sign in to save this to your artifacts.

A saved App is your own App, not published yet: the same code, files and variables as the post, with none of its author's keys and none of its visitors' data. When it needs keys before it can work, it opens on Equip › Connect, where its Variables list starts with what it needs, each one marked Setup needed; add your own key or connect your own account for each, and it works for you.

Favorite items ​

Favorite published items you want to keep. Hover an item in the Slop feed and use the heart to add it to your favorites; the heart fills in to show it's saved. Open an item and the heart beside its title does the same, with the number of people who have favorited it — liking an item and favoriting it are the same thing, and each person counts once. Your favorites — items and co-ops alike — collect under Favorites in your Profile's Posts section, where you can revisit them or un-favorite with the heart again. The star on a Community card in an editor's menu favorites that card's post the same way. You need to be signed in to favorite; press the heart while signed out and you're taken to sign in, and the favorite is added once you have.

Earn credit when your post gets popular ​

When one of your published posts reaches 10 different people who favorite it, you earn a popularity rebate — half of the biggest single AI charge behind the post, as you posted it, comes back to your balance automatically. It's our way of rewarding work the community loves. A post made without AI has nothing to earn back.

  • Your Profile shows each post's progress. Under Your shared work in Posts, a post of yours that has supporters wears a trophy pill: how many unique supporters it has so far out of 10, or the amount credited once it has earned. Your own public profile shows the same pill on your cards. This progress is only visible to you — no one else sees your post's supporter count.
  • It pays out once per post, the moment the 10th different person favorites it, straight to your balance as credit.
  • Each supporter counts once for you. A person who favorites several of your posts counts toward only one of them, so the rebate rewards genuinely popular work rather than many people favoriting everything you make. Your own favorites of your own posts don't count.
  • Editing your work after posting doesn't change what it can earn. The rebate is worked out from the post as you posted it.

Track what you earn ​

The Earnings section of your Profile lists everything that pays you, one row per item — its picture on the left, what it has earned or stands to earn on the right. Open a row to go to the item. Only you can see this section; money never appears on your public profile.

It has three groups, Slop, Co-op and Gigs. Each heads with what it has paid you so far (Paid $…) and one line on how it pays, so it shows you how to earn even before you have:

  • Slop — each of your posts with its supporters out of 10 and what it would earn, with a bar showing how close it is, or Earned $… once it paid. Posts made without AI are counted in one line beneath, since they have nothing to earn back.
  • Co-op — each running co-op with a prize that you've submitted to, with where you stand: in the lead with your votes, or your votes beside the leader's, and the prize. A prize you won reads Won $….
  • Gigs — each gig you're doing the work on, with its status and the agreed price (or Price not agreed yet), and once paid, Paid $… as credit or Paid $… to your bank. A gig someone proposed directly to you shows here too while it's open, asking you to answer with your price — and once you have, the offer you made while you wait for them to pick.

Your public profile ​

Every handle has a public profile at its own address (for example /@swift-otter-k3m9), attributed only by the handle — never an email or real name, and never a link. It shows, top to bottom:

  • The handle and its followers.
  • Four stats — Popular posts (live posts with at least 10 favorites), Co-op rounds won (submissions that won their round), Gigs completed (as the one doing the work), and Gig rating (the average and how many ratings it's from, or None yet). Stats are achievements only; nothing about money is ever shown.
  • About — the person's own description, when they've written one.
  • Open to gigs — when they take gig work: their Specialty, the types of work they take, and their rating for each type they've been rated in. A signed-in visitor can Propose a gig from here.
  • Featured — up to six posts they chose to show first, in their order.
  • Co-op — the co-ops they started that are still running — then everything they've Shared with the community.

You can open your own from the handle window on your Profile with View your public profile, and share the link so people can see everything you've made public in one place. On your own, below the profile, you also see who you follow and the comments you follow — those lists are only shown to you. A profile address that doesn't match a real handle simply shows nothing, so handles can't be guessed or enumerated.

On someone else's profile, the three-line menu at the top right lets you follow them, Report what they wrote on their profile (with the same three reasons as any report), or block them. You need to be signed in for any of these.

Shape your public profile ​

The Public profile section of your Profile is your public profile as others see it, with the parts you control turned into fields — so what you edit is laid out exactly as it will show:

  • About — who you are, what you make and the experience you bring, up to 1,000 characters.
  • Open to gigs — tick it to let people propose a gig to you directly. It opens two more: Specialty, what you do best in a sentence or two, and Work you take, the types of work you accept.
  • Featured — Choose posts to pick up to six of your own live posts to show first, in the order you pick them. Remove one with the × on its card. Unpublishing a post takes it out of Featured.

Your stats, co-ops and shared work show as they are. Nothing changes until you Save profile; Discard drops your changes. See it as others do opens your profile as a visitor sees it.

What you write is checked against the Community Standards when you save it. If it's held for review you'll see Your words are being reviewed before others can see them., and your About and Specialty words stay off your public profile until a person on our team has looked at them. The same happens if enough people report what you wrote. Profiles can't hold links, so a gig is always agreed and paid inside MotherFluxer, where the payment and the ratings protect both sides.

Comment on items and co-ops ​

You can comment on anything in the community. Open a published item and add a comment on the line under its description; inside a co-op, each stage has its own comments under that round's submissions, and any submission's Comments can be expanded to discuss it. Comments show the author's handle and update live for everyone viewing a co-op. You need to be signed in to comment, and the first time you post you'll be asked to agree to the Community Standards. Anyone can read comments without an account. Comments are checked automatically like every other post, so a comment can occasionally be held for review instead of appearing straight away — you'll see Thanks — this is being reviewed and will appear once it's approved.

Report an item ​

Every published item can be reported if it shouldn't be public: open it and choose Report — the flag icon — from the three-line menu beside its heart, then pick a reason: Offensive, Copyright, or Spam. Reporting an item is anonymous and you don't need an account to do it. Items that gather enough reports are automatically hidden pending a review, and we remove content that violates our Community Standards. If something you posted is hidden after reports or removed by our team, we email you saying which Community Standards rule it falls under and how to ask for a review.

Community Standards and blocking ​

Everything shared in the community is covered by our Community Standards — the rules for what's allowed, with zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive behavior. The first time you publish, post, or submit, you'll be asked to agree to them; they apply to everything you share, including content you make with AI. A post that shows a real person needs their consent, with one exception: parody, satire, commentary or news that the law protects as free expression, which is clearest about a public figure. Label that kind of post as made or altered with AI, in the post or its title or description, and never make it sexual, never show anyone under 18, never use it as an advertisement, never present it as real, and never use it to harass anyone. If you are not sure it is protected, don't post it. Alongside reporting, you can block another member from the three-line menu on their public profile — blocking hides their content from you and yours from them across the community, and neither of you can propose a gig to the other. If you have a question or want to appeal a removal, the contact address is on the Community Standards page.

Unpublish ​

To remove one of your published items, open it from your Profile (under Your shared work in Posts) and choose Unpublish from the three-line menu beside its heart. You'll see Unpublished, and the public copy is removed shortly after. Unpublishing only removes the public listing — your private original and its history are untouched. What was inside the post leaves Community in the editor menus with it, it leaves your Featured posts if it was one, and copies people have already placed or saved stay theirs. Unpublishing an App post also takes its running App off the web for good, along with what its visitors saved in it. Removing a post is permanent: posting the same work again later creates a new post that starts at zero favorites and zero views, and you'll need to wait about a day before you can post the identical item again.

Publishing to the Community is public — anyone can find and view the item, and it shows up in the Slop feed, search, and your public profile. A share link is private — it works only for people you send it to, and it's never listed anywhere. Use the Community for work you want discovered; use a share link for work you want to show to specific people.