Find and join a yard

A yard is a community inside CommonYard: a school, a church or mosque, a family, a team, a group of friends. Each has its own posts, chat and events.

Steps

1. On HOME, tap Explore (Find a yard to join) beside your yards. If you have swiped up to the posts, tap the small arrow beside the yard’s name first to go Back to all your yards.
2. The Find a yard page lists open yards you could join. Narrow the list with Schools, Faith or Other, or search for a yard by name.
3. Tap a yard to look inside before you join: you can read its posts and chat. At the top it says you are looking around.
4. Tap Join on the list, or Join yard inside the yard. If a yard needs approval, you ask to join instead: an owner or admin lets you in, and you get a notification when they do.

Further down, Liveliest this week shows the yards with the most going on. Can’t find yours? The last thing on the page is the way to make one. See Make a yard.

Joining from a link

If a friend sends you a yard’s link, open it and you land in that yard, ready to join.

After you join

• The yard joins your yards on HOME straight away. Tap it to see that yard’s posts. For the whole Yard, swipe up and tap CommonYard, the first tile.
• CommonYard asks whether the yard can reach you with notifications. See Turn on notifications.
• If the yard has sub yards — a class, a club, a hall — they are listed near the top of the yard for you to join too.
• Joining a yard earns 10 points.

Leaving

Open the yard, tap its name at the top, and tap Leave yard at the bottom of its page. CommonYard asks once more: tap Leave, or Stay if you changed your mind.