# HOME opens on your yards

> HOME now opens on your yards, one round shape for each, bigger when more is going on. Swipe up for your feed, and the yards fold into a row of tiles at the top.

Published: 2026-10-12
URL: https://commonyard.app/news/home-opens-on-your-yards/

When you open CommonYard, HOME now starts with your yards, side by side on a plain page. The busier a yard is today, the bigger it is.

## Your yards, one shape each

![The top of HOME: You and a card saying Your poll got busy, then YOUR YARDS with one round shape per yard — Hilltop College biggest, then Accra Runners, Grace Chapel and Osu Book Club, each with how many are here and how many members — Explore and New yard among them, and Swipe up for your feed at the bottom](https://commonyard.app/guides/img/home.webp "HOME opens on your yards. The busier, the bigger.")

- **Tap a yard** to go into it. Its posts come up, newest first.
- Each yard shows its name, how many are here now (by the green dot) and how many members it has. A **+** and a number beside a yard is what your posts there gained.
- In more yards than fit? The last shape says **+** and a number. Tap it for all your yards.
- **Explore** is the way to find a yard to join, and **Start a yard** (or **New yard**, when it is small) the way to make one.

## What happened to your things

Along the top, beside your picture, is a row of small cards, like *Your poll got busy*: new votes or replies on something of yours, a yard you joined this week. Tap one to go to it. When nothing has happened yet, it says *Nothing new on your posts yet*.

## Swipe up for your feed

- **Swipe up** and the yards fold into a row of small tiles under the top bar. The posts come up under them.
- The first tile is **CommonYard**, the whole Yard. Tap a tile to change yard. You can also swipe sideways on the posts.
- Under the tiles, a line says which yard you are reading and what is on there. Tap the small arrow beside it to go **Back to all your yards**. A yard you run has its gear there too, for **Manage yard**.
- At the end of a yard's posts, **NEXT YARD** takes you on to the next one.
- **Your next move** and **Happening now** are still there, at the top of the posts.

See [Get started on CommonYard](/guides/get-started/) and [Find and join a yard](/guides/find-and-join-a-yard/).