Amit K.
@amit_cric · 38m
What a finish at the Gabba 🔥 Bumrah's last over was unreal. Who's watching the highlights?
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The deep home behind every circle row in Search, Discover & Trending. Same tokens as the Circles redesign. A circle is a topic forum — so the page leads with what's alive now + the one proof Reddit can't show: "24 near you joined". Public = read-then-join; private = locked preview.
Land here from search. Identity + activity + "near you" proof up top, feed readable below, a sticky Join bar that follows. No wall — see the value first.
Join flips the CTA to Joined ▾ and reveals the composer. Same identity block stays scrollable; the feed is the room. Tabs let you jump to About / Members.
The trust layer. What the circle is, the rules (sets the room's culture), live stats, and who runs it. This is what a thoughtful user checks before joining.
The one list Reddit can't render. Members near you surfaces first — neighbours you can recognise — then admins, then everyone. Turns a faceless 1.2L into "my people are here".
Identity + about stay visible (so it's not a dead end), but the feed is locked behind a Request. Honest gate: you see what it is, not what's inside.
An admin approves who joins. Request to join and you'll get notified when you're in — then the feed unlocks.
After tapping "Request to join" on a private circle: CTA flips to a muted pending state, lock card updates to tell the user they'll be notified, and the blurred feed peek stays. No dead-end — sets clear expectations.
An admin will review your request. You'll get a notification the moment you're approved — then the feed unlocks.
When per-user precise location is unknown, the social-proof line shows state-level count without a face stack — and an inline nudge invites the opt-in. Never fakes precision; the moat is intact when location is real.
The deep home a circle row deep-links into. Forum-first, local-proof, honest gating.
Dependency: "near you joined" needs user primaryLocation sync (currently thin) to be real — until then it degrades to "in your state". Member-count, activity, rules & pinned are all backed by existing circle fields + the moderation spec. Same design system as circles-redesign.html.