Feed and friends.

A horror film is better with a witness. The feed is where your friends' rankings land: the film, how scary they found it, a review, and who was on the couch. It is the part of Gasper that turns a private list into a conversation.

What is in the feed

Follow someone and their activity shows in your feed: what they ranked, with their scare score and the review they wrote, and what they added to their watchlist. A post reads "Ranked" or "wants to watch". Each one can be liked, commented on and shared, and a review marked "Contains spoilers" sits under a cover until you choose to read it. A rank tagged with the people they watched with shows those people too, so the post reads as an evening rather than a data point.

The feed has two filters, "Following" and "Trending", and a "My posts" switch for your own.

The review is the heart of it. A score tells you where the film sits for them; the review tells you why. "Second half is a different film" or "the kitchen scene, you know the one" is more useful than any number, and the feed is built to surface that sentence.

Finding people

There are three ways to find someone. Search their name or handle under "Horror fans". Scan their profile code in person, a QR on their profile that opens it when scanned, which is the fastest way to connect at a screening or on a couch; the help entry on scanning a profile code has the steps. Or let Gasper match your contacts: "See which contacts are on Gasper", with an "Invite" button for the ones who are not.

Contact matching is built to leak nothing. If you allow access, your phone hashes the emails and phone numbers in your address book with SHA-256 and sends only those hashes to be matched against members who signed up. Raw contacts never leave the device, and you can revoke access any time in iOS Settings. The help entry on finding friends from contacts covers it in full.

Follow someone and the button reads "Following"; if they follow you first it offers "Follow back". If someone has a private account, following them sends a request, and the button reads "Requested" until they approve or ignore it. Your profile shows your Followers and Following lists.

Posting

Every rank can be a post. Leave Stealth mode off and the rank goes to your followers' feeds and can reach Trending. Turn "Stealth mode" on in the details card and that rank stays off the feed. You choose per rank, so you can rank most films in peace and surface only the ones worth talking about. Lists are never posted to the feed.

Tagging who you watched with credits the company. Each of you ranking the same film separately is how a group ends up with three different scare scores for one night, which is the point. The ranking with friends guide has ideas for making a habit of it.

Built-in tags on a rank give a post shape at a glance: Jump scares, Slow burn, Disturbing, Creepy, Atmospheric, Mind-bending, Tense, Gross, Twist ending, Rewatchable. You can add your own with "Add a tag". A post tagged Slow burn and Disturbing tells a friend what kind of night they are in for before they read a word.

Trending

Trending surfaces posts that are getting attention across Gasper, which makes it a good way to find people worth following. Someone whose review of The Wailing (2016) made you laugh is a better follow than a stranger with a long list. A stealth rank never reaches it.

What it does not do

The feed does not show you everyone. "Following" shows the people you chose to follow. "Trending" is its own filter, built from posts across the whole community.

Following someone does not give them access to anything you put in Stealth mode, and blocking someone removes you from each other's view without telling them. Any post, review, comment, list or profile can be reported, and reports are reviewed within 24 hours. The privacy controls page covers Stealth mode, private accounts and blocking in detail.

A like or a comment does not change a score. The only thing that moves a scare score is a head-to-head, and nobody can run yours for you.

And the feed is not a place to type a score. Your scare score in a post comes from your head-to-heads, the same as everywhere else. What you write is the review, and the review is the part your friends will remember.