OpenBook

Welcome to OpenBook! New members now get a friendly welcome message and a Get started guide, so it is easy to take your first steps: claim a username, make your first post, invite friends, and more.

You steer what we build. Share an idea in the Suggestions box, everyone votes, and the most-wanted ideas rise to the top of the public roadmap. Every status change is logged in the open.

Messages can now be edited (an "edited" mark then shows) and deleted for everyone, just like you would expect. Your messages, your control.

Fixed: the back button now returns you to the last page you were on instead of dropping you out of the app, and logged-in members no longer see a flash of the login screen.

This is the official OpenBook account. Follow it to see new features and bug fixes the moment they ship, and tell us what you think. We build in the open.

Two new ways to sign in. You can now log in with Google, or set up a passkey and sign in with just your fingerprint, face, or device PIN (Face ID, Touch ID, or Windows Hello). Passkeys are passwordless, and your biometric never leaves your device, we only ever store a public key. Add one any time from Settings. As always, how you sign in is only your identity, it never affects your karma, standing, or reach.

UPDATE: Messages now has a search box, and the OpenBook account stays pinned to the top of your chats so you can always find it. We also labeled the up and down arrows as Vote so they are clear, gave the Get started panel a clear close button, made author avatars clickable to their profile, let you find people by their @username in search, and fixed scrolling in the OpenBook chat. Keep the feedback coming, it shapes what we build.

UPDATE: Added a plain-language Terms of Service page, linked in the footer next to the Privacy Policy. Like everything here it is short, readable, and lives in the open: you own what you post, here are the rules of the road, and money never buys influence.

CHANGE: A small polish to the vote control. The Vote label now sits neatly under the up and down arrows instead of beside them, so the action row under each post stays clean on both desktop and mobile.

UPDATE: You can now @mention people. Type @username in a post or comment and it turns into a clickable link to their profile, and they get notified. Use @friends to ping your friends, or @everyone to reach your friends and followers. Your privacy is respected: a friends-only post never notifies people who cannot see it. Two more: adding a friend now follows them automatically once they accept, and the Add friend and Follow buttons are the same size now.