xaround

xaround is user-friendly, fast, extremely smooth, feature-rich, and customizable to match your preferences. It's designed with users in mind and will continue to evolve to be even better. Submit your feedback through the in-app suggestion feature to participate in building the ideal campus app together.

Explore campus feeds
- Each campus has one feed where everyone can post and comment on. Make use of the anonymity feature to post confessions and/or comment your genuine insights comfortably in the post threads.

Browse post threads
- From confessions to seeking advice from fellow students, xaround is built for you to exchange information and socialise with others on your campus. Join the community right now and discover what’s happening. Some say it holds many secrets…

Beautiful iOS design
- xaround is designed to instantly make you feel right at home by following the native iOS app design guidelines.

Get to know others
- Visit other users profile to learn more about them. Share your other social networks in bio for others to connect with you outside xaround.

Features
- Bunch of campus feeds to follow and explore.
- Personalize your home feed to show only posts from the campus communities that you follow.
- Create posts or comments as yourself or anonymously.
- Edit your posts or comments to fix typos, improve readability, etc.
- Save posts or comments that you find interesting.
- Hide posts or comments that you don't wish to see.
- Browse posts with the same hashtag or flair across campuses or for a specific campus.
- Dark mode with an additional pure black dark mode.
- Customizable campus feed to view upon launching, app font sizes, and many others in the settings.
- Personalize your profile to display profile picture, username, name, location, website, and bio.
- Changeable app icons to match your home screen aesthetic.
- Swipe gesture to like or reply to posts and comments.
- Report issues or give suggestions easily through the in-app feedback submission feature.
- Share interesting content using the share feature which converts a post or comment into an image where you can save to your Photos, copy, or send to your friends.
- Push notifications feature which can be enabled or disabled in settings. Get notified when others like your post/comment, comment on your post, and/or mention you in a post/comment.
- And many, many more!

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What inspired me to build xaround?

Campus confessions are typically hosted through Facebook Pages. Fellow students create a page for their campus as a medium to connect students on their campus. Students use these pages to anonymously share their opinions, secrets, relevant news, and many more with others on their campus. However, since Facebook Pages is not meant for hosting confession platforms, the page administrators and its followers both face their own unique problems.

Page administrators’ problems include: (1) risk of accidental reposting of unlawful content, (2) page taken down by the Facebook staff for violating Facebook’s Community Standards, and (3) continuously reposting content submissions. Meanwhile, the page followers' problems include: (1) wait for the page administrators to repost their submission, (2) receive fewer responses from others due to privacy concerns in the comment section, and (3) publish new separate posts in order to respond to a specific post anonymously.

We propose a new platform for hosting campus communities through a mobile app for greater accessibility from anywhere. The main focus is overcoming the problems stated above, making more campuses available, and providing a superior user experience. Users may participate in the app development discussions through an exclusive forum in the app to help designing the ideal platform together. Unlike Facebook Pages, xaround is built to host campus communities optimally – more than just a confession platform.