How myBackyard works

The feed is chronological, not algorithmic — posts show up in the order people made them, newest first. There's no engagement-maximizing ranking deciding what you see.

Posts come in three flavours: sharing a place you visited, asking the neighbourhood a question, or (for organizations) posting an announcement. You can tag a local place and add up to a handful of photos. Posts are voted on Reddit-style — upvote what's worth seeing, downvote what isn't — and the feed can be sorted by New or Popular. Comments open up a conversation underneath the post.

Anyone signed in can host an event — set a time, a place, and a description, and it shows up on the events page. RSVPing marks you as "going" or "interested", and that count is visible to everyone so people can gauge who else is showing up.

Everyone picks how they show up in the neighbourhood when they join. It shapes your badge and a couple of profile fields, not what you're allowed to do:

• Local — I live here
• New Canadian — Just made this home
• Visitor — Exploring for a while
• Organization — A local club or business

Friending is mutual (both sides confirm), following an organization is one-directional and instant — no approval needed.

myBackyard is intentionally about independent, local spots — no big chains, ever. Posts are transparent by design: only the person who wrote a post can ever delete it, including organizations on their own page, so the record of what was said stays honest.

There's no algorithmic curation deciding what's worth seeing — every post from people and places you follow shows up, in order, every time.

Everything lives in a single Supabase project: your profile (name, handle, bio, neighbourhood, photo), the posts, comments, and votes you make, your event RSVPs, and your friend/follow connections. Photos you upload are stored in Supabase Storage under a folder scoped to your account.

Database rules (row-level security) restrict who can write what — you can only ever edit or delete your own posts, comments, votes, and profile. See Connectors for a live status check on that connection.