The Splash Club is a public forum built around visibility, NOT virality. At the core, we have our completely transparent sorting method: here, threads are grouped by the day they are posted, and sorted within that day based on the number of ratings, comments, and views. Threads won't resurface later based on comment activity; where a thread lands that day is where it stays—nothing is artificially revived.

From there, we can narrow down the different discussions through communities. Each community is simply a filtered view of the same core feed, limited to threads tagged with topics relevant to that community. It has the same sorting method but a smaller surface area.

You can also narrow things further by tags themselves. Tags are the most granular level and act as direct lanes, showing only threads about a specific topic, still in the same daily order. This lets readers control what they see instead of an algorithm deciding for them.

At the end of the path is the thread itself. Threads are live, chronological conversations. Comments are always sorted from newest to oldest—no ranking, no engagement weighting. You can watch discussions happen in real-time without scrolling past buried replies.

Participation is gated. Reading is public, but posting and commenting require membership. This filters out bots (we only allow Splashbot around here), spam, and drive-by behavior, slowing discussion to a human pace. Creation is intentional. Starting a thread involves a brief back-and-forth with Splashbot to clarify the topic and tags before publishing. This adds friction where it matters without interfering once discussions begin.

In short:

It's a text-first forum designed to feel like reading a conversation, not fighting a feed.