Gather app update for the Home Automation Forum

[Alan]

Hi everyone, quick community update for the Home Automation Forum.

A few years back, we offered a dedicated mobile app for the forum and many members really liked it. We ended support once it became clear that the company behind it was not handling user data in a way we could stand behind. Protecting this community and your privacy comes first for us, always.

We have been looking for a better option ever since, and Gather is the next step. It is a new mobile app built specifically for forum communities, with privacy and responsible data handling at the center of it.

If you would like to be notified when it launches, you can join the waitlist here:
https://gather.forum/

If you have questions or concerns you want us to bring up to the Gather team, feel free to reply in this thread and we will collect them.

 

[ChristopherBelmont]

If Gather makes it easier to search and reference old Home Automation Forum threads, that’s a win. My wish list is strong search, easy quoting, clean image handling, and notification controls that don’t get spammy. Dark mode too.

 

[ThunderBolt]

If you’re collecting questions, mine is reliability for media and screenshots. Home Automation Forum troubleshooting lives and dies by logs and screenshots, so easy uploads and clean formatting would be huge.