Make a post

Everything you post starts on one page: your words first, pictures or a video if you want them, and — only if you want it — something for people to do.

Steps

1. Tap the round + at the bottom of the screen, beside the bar.
2. Write what you want to say where it says Say it to the yard. A line is enough.
3. To add a picture or a video, tap the picture or video button. An editor opens where you can crop, add a filter, words, stickers or a drawing. Tap Done — use it when you’re happy. A picture you added has an edit button if you want to change it again.
4. If you want people to do something, tap Ask people to… and pick one: Vote, Weigh in, Sign, Reply, Swipe or Troll. For a game, tap Or start a game for the yard under them. Most posts don’t need any of this.
5. Check where it goes, under your name — to the whole Yard, for example. Tap it to change, and tick every place it should go. See Post to several yards at once.
6. Tap the big button at the bottom. It says where your post goes: Post to the whole Yard, or Post to and your yard’s name.

The screen closes as soon as you post; your post goes up on its own while you carry on.

What each choice does

• Vote — a poll. See Make a poll.
• Weigh in — a hot take, a confession, a question, a prediction and more, that people take sides on — under your name, or anonymously. See Weigh in.
• Swipe — a swipey, where people judge each picture left or right. See Swipe through a swipey.
• Sign — a petition. See Start a petition.
• Reply — a discussion: everyone answers in one thread.
• Troll — put yourself, or a school, a team or a business everybody knows, up for a friendly roast. See Start a troll.
• Or start a game for the yard — a game with a clock. See Make a game.

Two or more pictures

A post shows one picture. If you add more, CommonYard asks: KEEP ONE keeps the first, and SWIPE THEM turns the post into a swipey.

Part of a series

Posting something in parts — a story, a weekly review, a diary? Under PART OF A SERIES, add the post to one of your series, or start one. See Post a series.

Good to know

• A post earns 20 points.
• Your draft saves itself as you write.
• If a post can’t go out — no connection, for example — it is kept as a draft, and HOME offers it back to you.
• A post made in a yard stays in that yard. It can’t be moved later.
• The square button beside the close button opens What you made, where you can edit or delete anything you posted. See What you made.