The Frequencies (Community Hub)
The Frequencies is Civic Radar's shared feed — Guardian alerts from the city sit above neighbour posts, sponsored Beacon offers stay clearly labelled and EKC-vetted, and an inline Q&A composer lets residents ask an alert a direct question instead of waiting on a hotline.
Best on a larger screen: the side-by-side view shows every annotation at once.
Emergency and Important alerts from the city and Civic Radar always lead the feed, collapsed by default into a single full-width card — with a rolled-up summary for anything else waiting behind it.
A Citizen sees the identical feed minus Like and Compose — Comments and Send stay, so they can still help without an account.
Expanding the alert reveals the map, the update text, and a running Q&A with its own attach-and-ask composer — photo, camera, or location — sitting right where the answers already are, so residents can ask a direct question without leaving the card.
When a question falls outside the official update, the alert says so plainly and routes it to the authority instead of guessing.
New Post asks for a category before anything else — Found, Lost, Seen, Searching, Urgent, To sell — plus an Ad Lib option for whatever doesn't fit.
The photo picker accepts up to five items, video included at 30 seconds — empty state sets the ceiling before anything's added.
Each photo can be cropped and adjusted right where it was added, so nothing has to be perfect before it's attached.
Adding a location drops a single required pin on the map — there's no free-text address field hiding underneath it.
Even routine updates — like a heat warning — let you ask a direct question the same way the top emergency alert does, not a stripped-down version.
Comments from your own Blips carry a CONTACT tag; everyone else appears simply as “A neighbour” — reply and like actions sit under every line.
Not yet designed. Placeholder standing in until the Pedigree/Level overlay (opened from an avatar tap) gets built.
Reaching a new EKC tier surfaces a confetti card right in the feed — dismissible, with a lightweight Congrats action instead of a full detail page.
Saved posts open the actual card — photo, pill, comment count, and all three actions — not a stripped-down reference back to the feed.
Sentinel status, Beacon categories, and Guardian alerts can all be filtered from the same screen, organized by who posted rather than what type of post it is.
Scrolling into Blips turns the filter into a people-picker — tap any recent contact to scope the feed to just them.
The bottom of the sheet adds a distance radius, a date range, and a simple “has photo or video” switch before Apply Filters.
Tapping the info icon on a sponsored post opens the EKC ad standard in plain language — what's preferred, what's never allowed, and where ads can never appear.
A Beacon viewing its own post loses the standard action row entirely — Edit reopens the same composer pre-filled, Delete asks for confirmation first.
Even before any neighbour posts exist, city-wide Guardian alerts still show — a first-time Sentinel never opens to a blank screen.