Community Workspace

Summary

Community is a normal public page route for discovery in Prox OS. It is not an app window, Studio, Runtime, Switcher resource, or temporary overlay above Desktop Runtime or Atlas Studio.

Community is a full workspace route for exploring public OS Homes, builders, apps, spaces and moments.

The canonical route is /community. Opening Community renders the public Community page and leaves Studio switching focused on Desktop Runtime, Atlas, Grid, and Ops.

Product Boundary

Community answers public discovery questions:

• Which public OS Homes are worth exploring?
• Which builders are active?
• Which public apps, spaces, moments, AI Medium essays, collections, and Project Museum entries are trending?
• Can a visitor follow a builder, save a public app idea, or open a public OS Home preview?

Community does not own:

• private user records;
• private Spaces;
• real follow relationships;
• real public profile persistence;
• moderation, abuse, ranking, or recommendation backend logic.

The current implementation is mock UI only.

Workspace Placement

Community is launched from navigation as a page link instead of the primary Studio Engine group. It still owns local page sections:

• community:feed
• community:explore
• community:builders

The primary Studio creation group should stay focused on Desktop Runtime, Atlas, Grid, and Ops. Local-only development engines live under /dev/studios/*. Community is a public discovery page, not a floating overlay and not a temporary card above another Studio.

When the RuntimeCommandStrip is set to top or bottom, RuntimeCommandStrip chrome is rendered inside the workspace column, not underneath the Alma. This keeps Community, Hire Me, Studio modes, dock affordances, and utility buttons aligned with the available workspace width.

Discovery Sections

The Community surface currently includes:

• Feed: public activity across OS Homes, apps, spaces, moments, projects, and AI Medium articles.
• Explore: featured OS Homes, new builders, public app patterns, and project highlights.
• Trending: mock opens, saves, follows, and weekly growth.
• Builders: people-first discovery with public OS Home status and follow actions.
• Public Apps: public app setups, dashboards, templates, and record patterns.
• Open Spaces: public web workspaces and tool collections.
• Moments: public moment cards as one content type.
• Projects: Project Museum highlights.

Builder Detail Drawer

Clicking a builder opens a detail drawer with:

• avatar, display name, handle, location, bio, and roles;
• overview stats for apps, spaces, moments, articles, projects, and followers;
• public OS Home preview;
• public apps, open spaces, moments, Project Museum entries, and AI Medium articles;
• mock actions for Follow, Star OS Home, Open as Visitor, and Copy profile link;
• privacy note that only public data is visible.

Visitor Mode

Visitor Mode is a future read-only public OS Home experience. The current UI only previews the concept.

In Visitor Mode:

• the viewer sees public data only;
• private apps, private records, money, documents, health, hidden windows, private people notes, and private Moments are hidden;
• the local user's Alma stays local;
• Alma may summarize the public OS Home but must not claim access to the other user's private data.

Moments Boundary

Moments is a content type. Community is the discovery surface across people and public OS worlds.

Moments can appear in the Community feed, trending areas, and builder detail drawers. The Moments app should not become the entire community discovery entry.

Future Work

• real public profile objects;
• public OS Home route model;
• visitor desktop renderer;
• follow, save, star, and share persistence;
• moderation and abuse reporting;
• ranking, trending, and recommendation services;
• provenance-aware Alma summaries for public community items.