Month: June 2019

It is easy to create a raft, but the real fun comes from building a community. Rafts can be created by anybody on Raftr. We provide tools to customize, build, and manage your community; this is a big responsibility, but it is very rewarding. It is important to keep your raft vibrant and attract broad membership; we delete rafts that do not achieve this to free up their names for others that wish to take on this responsibility. To create a raft, use the + button on the bottom of the screen, which is used for creating all new content…

Creating content – to share an event or a more general post, message people, or create a raft – is quick and easy with the + sign on the tab bar. When you post an event, you can also “cross-post” it, which is cool because then it can be seen on multiple rafts, reaching more people; and events, posts, and messages all have other fun options to make them more interesting. To create anything, you’ll start with the + button in the center, base of the screen. This button is used for creating any new content in the app –…

Once you find rafts you like, you may join them to become a member. Membership will allow you to participate in its chat, create and comment on posts, and get other members’ posts in your feed. It’s easy to leave if you decide you no longer want to have its posts in your feed or to create content. To leave, go to the information section of the raft (touch the “i” in the upper right corner of its front page) and choose “leave raft”. All the rafts you have joined will appear, for easy access, on your profile. You can…

A raft is a community formed around something you care about. Rafts are places where members can see what events are happening when, find out what others are talking about, connect with people with similar interests, and join in on interesting conversations. There are two types of rafts on Raftr and several different privacy settings for member management and content accessibility. The first type of raft is those that are curated by our team or the colleges we partner with (official) and the second type is those that people in the app create and curate (user-curated). Official rafts are denoted…

To create an account on Raftr, we use your verified .edu email address (and a password) to keep the experience safe and the discussions as authentic as possible. Raftr’s vision is to be the most student-centric social platform on campuses, where students feel a sense of belonging: welcomed, well informed, and connected. Using your verified, .edu email address works well to ensure authenticity, and avoids the commonplace problem of some people setting up multiple accounts, under different pseudonyms, that may be used for spam or harassment.

With Raftr, you can discover events happening on campus, find student groups that share similar interests, and make sure that you're the first to know when there's free food to be found on campus. If it's happening on campus, it's on Raftr. And if you're on Raftr, you'll be there. Our mascot is a sea otter. We chose the otter because sea otters are very social animals that often eat and rest together while floating in connected groups. A group of otters linked together like this is called a “raft”. Rafts can include hundreds of otters connected with one another…