Hey,
I just wanted to give some feedback on this post. I checked out your website, and I'm struggling to recall a time I came away from a site so confused. Your ABOUT US section on the ABOUT US page, is quite frankly, bizarre. It gives no info about you as an organization, and instead reads like a fever dream.
The Games section is as confusing. The existing games, are just text, with auto playing audio audio embedded, all with very weird formatting. The messaging, purpose, and goal of the games is very unclear. To me, they feel like they dont really fit, and I didnt get a clear understanding from your messaging on site, or this post, just why the games exist at all, let alone are something you want to put significant effort in to.
The only universal message I took away from the post and the site is that there is a desire to have a positive impact, but just how these games tie in, and the whole solar energy powering the developers home angle, well, its all just a bit... odd, and disjointed. I dont understand the current implementation of the Dew system, nor do I understand why people would be incentivized to earn point. I dont understand why there is a SHOP tab for things that I cant really understand why people would purchase. I dont understand why on the site you mention hating Google, and not wanting to continue to use BlueSky, while most likely posting from a smart phone.
I understand the general, broad concept, but its presented in such a confusing, disjointed way. If you want to attract some capable developers to drive your mission forward, I would suggest an overhaul of your messaging, and to consider whether needing a carbon neutral developer is as important as having a capable developer. No hate in any of the above, More power to you on your mission, I just found it very hard to understand.
Sure, I think the About Us page probably coloured your view of everything else as a derivative of the 'murky' origins of the project but sure. I am working on making the nature of the website ecosystem clearer for people who are used to websites that do one thing only. The main idea is that the site is a purposeful Facebook type alternative with all you need to work, live and play carbon neutrally in one place. We are doing a makeover of the website, it's already planned out. And yes, we do want someone working on renewables more than we care about them being capable, capability can be learned, solar power is needed now. For anyone overwhelmed, we have an onboarding game we are making at this moment and the homepage will have a more interactive explanation of the site ecosystem.
In the meantime: Post on social, if you do something green post for points, use points to buy stuff in games or on the marketplace, sign up to be a vendor and offer eco rewards to others from the marketplace as well, share information on group Docs to enable better eco action, host gatherings around eco topics and cowork with others to build your reputation and get reviews on your eco work, get better social and IRL rewards from building your reputation. Each thing flows into the other.
I've gone ahead and added this section to the existing About Us:
How Fastfrwrd Works
Fastfrwrd is to be seen as a purposeful Facebook alternative, with 300% renewable hosting (through GreenGeeks.com) where for each unit of dirty energy used to power the site, 3 units of green energy are bought so as to never have to use the dirty energy again eventually. The purpose of the site is to prevent Climate Change. Facebook has a timeline, groups, a marketplace, games, and gatherings. So does Fastfrwrd, but everything here is in the aim of making the planet greener, think of it as an entire environment to facilitate more and more people to work, play and live Carbon Neutrally.
A typical Fastfrwrd flow can look like this: Post on social; if you do something green, post for points; use points to buy stuff in games or on the marketplace; sign up to be a vendor and offer eco rewards to others from the marketplace as well; share information on group Docs to enable better eco action; host gatherings around eco topics and cowork with others to build your reputation and get reviews on your eco work; get better social and IRL (in real life) rewards from building your reputation. Each thing flows into the other.