Vermont

A look at Front Porch Forum, which counts nearly half of Vermont's adults as active members and prioritizes careful moderation and civility over engagement

Rumors and body-shaming spread through a Vermont high school after students signed up for Fizz, an anonymous message board app for schools that has raised $40M+

Fizz has to be one of the most irresponsible concepts I've seen, based on this report.  —  The Wall Street Journal …

Rumors and body-shaming spread through a Vermont high school after students signed up for Fizz, an anonymous message board app for schools that has raised $40M+

An anonymous message board meant for school chatter quickly turned toxic in Vermont  —  An app lets high-schoolers post anonymously … Bluesky: @intelwire.bsky.social . X: @pwang , @jonhaidt , @wsj , a...

Profile of Front Porch Forum, a thriving message board community of ~160K members covering towns in Vermont, which has helped create resilience during disasters

Andrew Liptak / The Verge : Tweets: @jomc and @zhoag Tweets: Joanne Mcneil / @jomc : interesting profile of a thriving indie online forum in VT (a quarter of the state are users.) “It's harder to get...

Profile of Front Porch Forum, a thriving message board community of ~160K members covering towns in Vermont, which has helped create resilience during disasters

On August 29th, 2011, Tropical Storm Irene passed over Vermont, the first such storm to hit the state since 1938.