Forrst is a community for developers and designers. Forrst is all about sharing work and inspiration, getting valuable and constructive feedback, and ultimately getting better at your craft.

Sharing on Forrst is done through posting four kinds of posts: questions, snaps, code, and links. Share anything you find interesting to other developers and designers, or post works in progress you need feedback on.

Public posts allow you to share content with friends via the post’s short URL. Your friends don’t need to have a Forrst account to view your post; just blog, tweet, HackerNews, or share the URL and you’re done.

The best place to submit new ideas and suggestions is at the Forrst UserVoice. UserVoice allows users to vote and comment on suggestions and is also a place for us to keep everything in order.

If you want to hang out in the IRC channel, use webchat.freenode.net/ (or your favorite IRC client) and connect to channel #forrst-chat.

Kenneth and Mike are over at forrstpodcast.com, or on iTunes as ForrstPodcast. Daily Tech and Design news from your Forrst friends.

The key to using Forrst is to interact with other users. Comment on threads and post quality code and design work that needs feedback to improve. Forrst is not a gallery, but rather more of a show and tell at your local hacker group.

They are premium Forrst accounts. They come with advanced Forrst.me features like stats and custom domains, unlimited attachments, a monthly balance of Acorns, and a badge for your profile. The biggest "feature" they offer, however, is that you’ll be helping to keep the Forrst community around for the long run. Learn more here: forrst.com/…

If you chose the monthly plan, you’ll be billed every month on the day you originally signed up. For instance, if you signed up on March 29th, you’ll be billed April 29th, May 29th, and so on. If you chose yearly, you’ll be billed once every 365 days.

A large majority of our users are professional developers and designers. We feel that $5 is extremely reasonable for what we’re offering — advanced functionality and our ability to help keep Forrst around for the long-term.

No, sorry. Invites are only earned by being a great contributor on Forrst.

Supporter features will remain on until the end of the next billing cycle, but unfortunately we cannot offer refunds right now.

Sorry, but Supporter payments are not refundable right now. You will, however, always get the functionality you’ve been billed for, even if you cancel. Thanks for understanding.

Reputation is the way we measure members’ activity and engagement on Forrst. The higher your reputation score, the more active and engaged you have been in the community. Reputation is expressed as a percentile.

The higher your percentile, the better. It reflects what percentage of users your reputation is higher than.

Reputation is affected by numerous factors, including posting, liking, commenting, having your posts and comments liked, flagging content, as well as the behavior of folks you invite.

Yep, you lose reputation for not following the guidelines, inviting folks who are detrimental to the community, as well as other negative behaviors on Forrst.

Yes. Your own reputation will be affected by the reputation of users you invite.

Why, as a matter of fact you can! We use a handful of neat statistical calculations to weigh more thorough comments higher. Just posting longer comments won’t necessarily give you a higher score.

If you find a comment on your post that is especially helpful to you, show your appreciation by rewarding the commenter for their thoughtful answer with some of your Acorns.

Forrst is an Invite only community, and that means the addition of new members is completely in your hands. By sending someone an Invite you are vouching for their dedication and ability to expand the community.

People frequently ask for Invites on Twitter, blogs, and other places, but we have made it easy for you: Anyone can apply for membership on the Forrst homepage, and you as a member have access to these applications at forrst.com/people/list/…. Check out their portfolios, GitHub, Twitter, etc., and invite whom you feel is most deserving and will best represent Forrst.

There are a few ways to earn invites, but the most common way is to simply be very active on the site. The first of every month the most active users are eligible for up to 5 invites depending on the level of your activity the previous month (New Posts, Comments, Likes, Bookmarks, and so forth). Your account must also be at least two weeks old. Read more about invites here.

The Forrst Staff have been known to give out Invites here and there for especially amazing posts or comments that stand out, stories of one user lending a helping hand to others, and just general awesomeness.

Acorns used to promote or add attachments to posts, and become listed in the Forrst.me Directory. In time, other Acorn-powered features will roll out, so stay tuned.

Users can purchase Acorns from forrst.com/… for one dollar each. Sometimes, Acorns may also be awarded to users for amazing posts or comments, and to users that go above and beyond the call of duty in helping the community.

Promoted Posts allow any Forrst member in good standing get their posts in front of thousands of active Forrst members (great for job posts, requests for urgent feedback, or promoting a new product or service).

It takes a minimum of 20 Acorns to create a Promoted Post. Right now, each Acorn is worth 50 impressions.

Promoted Posts must follow all the current post guidelines. If you have questions on the guidelines, please email us: hello@forrst.com

You should flag any posts that are offensive or in violation of the Forrst Guidelines. This is the best way you can help keep Forrst clean and litter free.

If your post is flagged, staff (most likely Mike) will review your post to determine what course of action should be taken. You will receive an email detailing the problem and what can be done to fix it. During this time your post may be hidden from the public view.

We ask that you please refrain from posting "I flagged this Post/Comment" comments in posts. Thanks!

We keep a list of site rules on forrst.com/…

(from Greek: μετά = "after", "beyond", "with", "adjacent", "self"), is a prefix used in English (and other Greek-owing languages) to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept. Forrst is about Design and Development; not about Forrst. Most of the Meta Posts we find are posts that should have been Support Questions or off-topic such as welcome or Hello World posts. We love hearing about ourselves as much as the next guy(probably more) but meta posts about Forrst just don’t belong here.

If you have been working on a Forrst iPhone app or created some Forrst inspired art then by all means please post it. Just because its about Forrst doesn’t mean you can’t get feedback and admiration.

Chances are you need help and lucky for you help is close by! Check out the Forrst UserVoice where we try to keep track of site ideas and improvements. If you crave that extra human interaction you can email our support account hello@forrst.com where you can get that tender loving care that only Forrst staff members can offer.

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