Looking for a plumber recommendation? Need help finding your lost dog? Want to spread the word about a great new local restaurant? Curious what your neighbors think about the proposed school budget? Want to organize a multi-neighbor yard sale?
Front Porch Forum is built for you! FPF is a free community-building service covering every town in Vermont and dozens of communities in upstate New York. FPF features a daily digest of postings from non-anonymous neighbors about everyday topics. Our mission is to help neighbors connect and build community.
Neighbors, local businesses, area nonprofits, and public officials join their local Neighborhood Forum using their real name and address, then post on just about any topic that neighbors might discuss in person. Common issues include lost pets, mechanic recommendations, block parties, break-ins, helping neighbors in need, organizing group buying clubs, discussing local politics, buy/sell/give away items, wildlife sightings, and much more.
Postings are published as a cleanly formatted, easy-to-read digest, typically once a day. Every posting includes the full name and street (but not the exact address) of the author.
Most topics are welcome, although neighbor-vs-neighbor attacks and illegal activities are not. People use FPF in lots of ways, the vast majority of which are civil and constructive. Our goal is to help neighbors connect and open doors for real-world relationships, not to tell them what to talk about.
Our professional online community managers moderate all FPF Neighborhood Forums, reviewing each posting before it is published. For the most part, though, it is our members themselves who set the tone and keep the conversation flowing.
Conversations on FPF are by default private to your Neighborhood Forum and its immediately adjoining forums. FPF does not sell any member data to other entities, and we take seriously our responsibility to protect our members’ information. And unlike many online social networks, we do not build detailed profiles of our members' interests or otherwise invade our members' privacy.
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I wish that in the app you could select and copy things from peoples posts not just the entire post. But the app works great.
Clean, simple app for connecting with neighbors in Vermont
Jvd123
This app doesn't do everything, but that's the point. It works really well for reading updates from neighbors, posting to your forum, and searching the directory in calendar. It's straightforward and useful.
Oh no! Recent updates ruined user experience!
LeonyaSF
I have loved using this app on my iPad for years! But I just updated with the June updates, and the new layout is awful :-(One of the biggest benefits of reading FPF on the iPad has been the wide, clear, uncluttered layout. In this new version, the posts are shoved into a much narrower column on the left, accompanied by a very distracting and “bulbous” column of ads on the right. Ick!Also, I miss being able to see the buttons for other issues all the way across the top. Now they’re both bigger (and “bulbous”), but also don’t reach all the way across the screen. Dear FPF developers, please contact me if you’d like some screenshots. I’m on an iPad mini 5.
Developer Response
Hello LeonyaSF. Thank you for this feedback. I'm sorry about this poor experience. We've made several changes to the app since your comment above. Perhaps some of your concerns have been addressed?We can't contact you through the app store (except through this comment thread). If you'd be willing to talk to one of our team to convey your input, we'd love to hear more. Reach us more directly via https://help.frontporchforum.com/kb-tickets/new
Bias Moderation
MehEhhhMeh
Extremely bias in moderating content and does not adhere to the agreements they set forth with users. Just because it’s local, doesn’t mean it’s better. You can se from their unprofessional response in which they try to blame me for targeted moderation. Unlike the people they referenced, I still have my account. I simply don’t use it because I find them to be purposefully bias as an organization. Thus, I have no interest in furthering the agenda.
Developer Response
Hello MehEhhhMeh. Your statement above is false. Our family-owned small business makes all content moderation decisions based on our nonpartisan Terms of Use. That said, we have had to close some member accounts of people who repeatedly break our simple rules (e.g., no personal attacks, nothing illegal, etc.).
Changes:
- Fixed member account management bug.
Version 2.1.1
The developer, Front Porch Forum Inc, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
