SPOTTERON

Users can earn badges for specific numbers of contributions. These badges encourage long term participation and also give users a feeling of reward for their contributions without additional work for project admins. A certain number of predesigned badges are included for all apps, but custom ones can be designed for projects, and the number of badges can always be extended.

All notifications about community activity are displayed with the project icon & bubble. 

The newsfeed shows your users all activities of their community of people they follow, their friends and push-notifications that were sent out recently.

The project admins can directly send a message to all phones which have the app installed via push message. Thereby they can inform the whole community about important news, give valuable advice, etc.

All spots on the map feature an own comment section just below the observation's data. Users can post comments like questions or feedback and get in contact with each other. The project team itself can use an own registered user account for giving direct feedback to the participants. All comments display an "appriciation button" (heart) for liking. New comments, replies and comment-likes of are displayed in the user's newsfeed in the app to stay informed about new activity.

What's a community without the likes? The hearts right beside all observations and comments allow you and your users to give positive feedback to everyone contributing.

Every user can see which users are following them and which users they follow in their profile. 

Users can also follow or unfollow other users. The activities of others they follow will be displayed in their newsfeed, so they can see what their community is up to in the project.

An important community feature: Users can search for other users or even friends, to stay up-to-date on their contributions, etc. 

It has probably happened to everyone in the past: A forgotten password. So of course, we set up a secure forgotten password/update password function to update a users key to their account.