About camp
Every group needs a camp.
camp is a private home for groups of every kind: study groups, hobby clubs, crews, small teams and communities. Each camp gets boards that don't scroll away, a library everyone can find, paths for anything with steps and a market built on reputation, without ads or anyone watching. Learning is where we started, so the tools for it go deep, and some camps publish their paths for anyone to follow.
Three promises
Every feature is checked against them.
Your group's space is yours
Private by default. No ads, no trackers, nothing sold. Messages are end-to-end encrypted, and you can export or delete everything at any time.
What's published stays open
When a camp publishes a path, it's openly licensed and readable without an account. Decks export to Anki, and your account exports as one file.
Quality is earned, not edited
There's no editorial team to wait on and no wiki to vandalise. People who build something own it, people who use it rank it, and the community answers abuse first.
How it fits together
Three layers, each with rules that suit it.
- The commonsPaths camps have published, public courses and decks, and the community library.Each path is kept by its camp. The commons ranks paths by people actually making progress, not by votes.
- CampsStudy groups, hobby clubs, teams and communities, public, private or hidden, each with its own boards, library and paths.Their owners and moderators run them. Site staff step in only for harm.
- The streamThe public forum and the market.Votes sort it; members' flags hide abuse at once, and a moderator confirms afterwards.
A camp can stay private and still publish a path to the commons: its discussion stays inside, and the path is open to everyone.
Paths: anything with steps
A path is how a camp writes down how something is done: a curriculum, an apprenticeship, an onboarding, a build. It has an outcome you can check, steps in order with a checkpoint each and a suggested timing (never a deadline), the titles to work through, and a toolkit of decks, guides and files for each step. Members keep a log, mark steps done and always know where they are.
New paths start from shapes that already work: a reading list, a language year, a skill track, exam prep, a practice routine. The material lives here, written on camp. Links are citations, never the whole lesson, so a path still works when a website goes away.
Open, without degrading
Only a path's keepers edit it, so there is nothing to vandalise. When a path is ready, its camp publishes it under an open licence (CC BY-SA 4.0 by default), and anyone can follow it without joining. The commons orders paths by the people working through them, so a path nobody finishes sinks on its own. Next on the list: forks that keep the credit, suggestions from followers, and whole paths you can download.
Trust you earn, flags that work
New members can do almost everything from the first day; their links show as plain text and they start a few threads a day until they've been around a little. Trust grows on its own with time and participation. When enough trusted members flag something, it is hidden at once and a moderator decides whether it comes back. That is how a small team looks after a large forum, and how camps look after themselves.
Recognition that means something
Four signals, never mixed. Level is what you have done yourself. Reputation is what others found useful: upvotes and awards. Vouches are members standing behind you after a real dealing, verified when they come from a confirmed market deal. Rank is your upgrade group. Credits (500 to start, more for checking in and for help that gets upvoted) pay for awards, boosts and storage. They can't be cashed out, and nothing can buy XP, a level or reputation.
The market
Members offer and look for work, services and things: commissions, lessons, freelance jobs, gear, a hand with a project. camp never holds or moves money between members: you agree the terms between you, and when it went well, you vouch for each other. Nothing illegal, nothing pirated, and no doing someone's graded work for them.
Privacy and security are features here. The privacy page lists what we keep and what we refuse to.