Spread the Love

1. Search projects

Projects is the full list. Featured is only a short front page of projects that already have attention. The search box sits above the list, and the button on its left sets the mode.

• Keywords searches titles and about text. Type a word and press Enter. It becomes a chip.
• Themes, Roles, and Mediums search the catalog. Type until a match appears, then choose it.
• Each chip narrows the list. Remove a chip under the box to drop that filter.
• The globe limits results to a project headquarters: country, then state or territory, then city.
• The clipboard switch, “Only show projects with open roles,” is for finding a crew. Leave it off when you are browsing work. Join a crew covers applying.

Open a project to read the about text, see the banner, and follow it if you want its updates. The ▲ beside the follower count is the project’s upvotes.

2. Search creators

Creators uses the same kind of search, pointed at people instead of projects.

• Keywords searches names and bios. Themes, roles, and mediums use the tags on their profiles.
• The globe filters by where a creator is based.
• Open to new projects hides people who have not said they want new work.
• Language limits the list to one language from their profile.

A creator card shows their name, bio, roles, and tags. The arrow at the bottom of the card opens a preview of their portfolio. Open portfolio goes to their profile.

3. Read another person’s portfolio

• On a phone, the preview is a sideways row of their newest pieces. On a larger screen it is the same grid they arranged.
• Their profile is the full portfolio. On a phone the pieces stack full width. Click a piece to open it.
• A piece page is the file, the title, any note, and the project it came from when they attached one.
• The ▲ on that page is the piece’s upvotes. Comments sit under it.

4. How upvotes work

▲ and a number means “this many people currently have this upvoted.” You need to be signed in. If you are not, the control sends you to sign in.

• Click once to add your upvote. Click again to take it back. One person, one vote, and you can change your mind.
• You can upvote a project, an update, a portfolio piece that is not yours, and a comment.
• You cannot upvote your own portfolio pieces. The count is still shown.
• Projects on the front page are ordered by these votes, so an upvote is how work rises into Featured.

5. Upvotes on what you posted

• Each piece on your own portfolio shows ▲ and the count in the corner of the tile. Open the piece and the same count is at the top of the page. It is not a button, because you cannot vote for yourself.
• An update you wrote shows ▲ on the update card in Featured, Following, and the project’s Communication tab, and again on the full update page.
• A project you lead shows ▲ next to its follower count on the project page.
• Comments you leave show their own ▲ beside the comment.