A professional network where your conversations are part of your record.
Keep the record you would expect: experience, education, licences, projects, volunteering, awards, and skills that other named professionals endorse. Then stand on it in public, in conversations that run as deep as they need to.
Everything Flarona does, in two minutes.
Rooms anyone can open, the record that follows you into them, the three shapes a room can take, the Oracle, and the morning brief. Sound on.
The square
Anyone can open a room, on anything, and the whole world can read it.
Somebody opens a room on whether their industry is about to disappear. Somebody else wants an honest answer on rent control, or grid failures, or a film nobody else will defend. None of them asked permission and none of them needed a following first.
That half of Flarona works the way an open forum should, and it is free. The rest of this page is the half no forum has ever had, starting with who is standing behind the name.
- Nobody has to let you start oneA title, a category, the interest it belongs to, and it is live. No application, no minimum reputation, no queue for approval.
- Filed where strangers will find itEvery room sits inside an interest, inside a category, and carries up to five tags of your own. That is how somebody on the other side of the world with the same obsession walks in.
- Readable without an accountA public room is genuinely public. Send the link to anyone and they can read the whole thread before deciding whether to join it.
- Under your name or behind an aliasSpeak as yourself and your record follows you into the room. Speak as an alias and it does not. Both are welcome in every room on the platform.
- Nothing to farmNo karma, no upvote score, no leaderboard climbing in the corner. There is nothing here to accumulate, so there is nothing here to game.
- Yours to runYou started it, so you set how it behaves, hand it to somebody else, or close it. It is not on loan from a moderator.
And a feed running beside the rooms.
Posts from the people you are connected to and the organisations you follow, in the same place as the rooms.
- Posts
- A thought at whatever length it needs, with images when they carry the point.
- Polls
- Real options and a real deadline, from one hour to seven days.
- Quote reposts
- Carry somebody else’s post into your own feed with your own view sitting on top of it.
- Moods
- A word for the state you are in, when that is part of what you are saying.
- Reactions and comments
- Six reactions a tap away, any emoji past those, and a comment thread underneath.
- Everyone, or your connections
- Each post carries its own audience, chosen as you write it.
The conversations
Threads that run as deep as the subject does.
No depth limit, no forced collapse, and no cap on replies. You can follow one line of thought all the way down to where it lands, however many people that takes, and every reply on the way carries the record of whoever wrote it.
Capacity payments are the only reason the lights stayed on in February.
They kept plant available that the market would have retired. That is the subsidy working, not the market working.
Available is the whole product. Nobody pays for electricity nobody can dispatch.
Both of you are talking about the auction. The February margin came from interconnector flows.
Four levels in, and still going.
You decide how a conversation behaves before anyone speaks in it.
Most conversations go wrong in the first ten replies, when everybody is reacting to whoever got there first. Two of these three room types exist to stop that happening.
Standard
Costs are falling faster than anyone modelled.
On capital. Not on decommissioning.
Decommissioning is priced in France.
Replies appear as they are written and nest as deep as the conversation goes.
Is nuclear power green? Talk it through in the open, from the first reply.
Time Capsule
Opens in 2 days
Every reply stays sealed until a reveal moment you set, then all of them open at once.
Ask a room to call an election. Nobody sees a single answer until every one of them opens.
Treaty
- Nuclear counts as low carbon9
- Subsidy ends at grid parity7
- Waste is a solved problem3
Sealed, 16 signatures
A mediator keeps a live draft of what the room can genuinely agree on. Reach the signature count and it is sealed permanently.
Two sides of a housing question, drafting the clauses they can both put a name to.
The profile
A full professional record, kept the way a real one is kept.
Not a headline and a job title. The dossier holds what a hiring manager, a client or a collaborator would actually want to read, and you decide who sees which parts of it.
- Experience
- Every role you have held, with the detail somebody deciding whether to hire you actually reads.
- Education
- Schools, degrees, fields of study, and the years you were there.
- Licences and certifications
- What you are qualified to do, who issued it, and when it runs out.
- Projects
- What you built, shipped or ran, whether or not anybody paid you for it.
- Volunteering
- The work that never reached a payslip and still says who you are.
- Honours and awards
- Recognition, with the body that gave it and what it was for.
- Skills and endorsements
- One endorsement per person, from named members and verified companies. Never from an alias, never your own.
- Recommendations
- Written about you by somebody else, and published only once you approve it.
Dana Whitfield
Open to work
Every line of this follows her into the room above.
And what it does once it is there.
An anonymous account carries no dossier, deliberately. A work history nobody can attribute is not a work history, and an alias is still welcome in every room on the platform.
Open to work, or hiring
A verified identity
Who has been reading you
Your own privacy dials
One account
Flarona is two things that normally cancel each other out.
Forums give you depth and take your name. Brilliant points end up made by nobody and gone by the weekend. Professional networks give you a name and take the depth, so everybody performs and nobody says anything true. Flarona refuses to separate them.
In practice it means two things. Whoever just changed your mind is somebody you can look up, with their work, their credentials and the people who vouched for them. And the thinking you do in public becomes part of what you are judged on, alongside the jobs you happen to have held.
Day to day
What the rest of a free account carries.
The profile and the conversations are the two halves. These are the parts that make them work day to day.
Posts, polls and moods
Publish a thought, run a poll, or quote somebody with your own take on top. To everyone, or only to your connections.
Connections both sides agreed to
No follower counts to game. Every suggestion tells you why it appeared, and both people have to say yes.
Following, where a handshake makes no sense
Follow a business or an organisation and its posts reach your feed, with nothing to approve.
A feed ranked on behaviour
Pulse reads who you talk to, how alive a thread is, and how many separate people it moved. It has never been told what a post is about.
Messages only you can read
Direct messages and their attachments are encrypted in your browser. Your private key never leaves your device.
Live presence in the room
Who is reading and who is typing, while the conversation is still happening.
Anything worth returning to, starred
Rooms, posts and threads you want to find again, kept in one place.
All of it on a free account
No trial to expire, no seat count, and nothing held back behind a price.
Where we stand
There is no lever here for quietly turning somebody down.
Most platforms reserve four powers over you. Each one is written into the terms as a safety measure and used, in practice, whenever a decision is unpopular. Flarona never built them, so there is nothing here to switch off and nothing to appeal against.
There is a line. The law draws it, and so do the terms every member agrees to. A pile-on does not, and neither does anybody's politics. Above that line what you say stands or falls in front of everybody, on its merits.
- Nothing is removed for the view it takes
- No reach is quietly throttled to nothing
- No account is closed over an opinion
- Links and honest promotion are welcome
The Oracle, and Rhys
Ask what the platform thinks and hear it answer out loud.
Ask it whether remote work is making cities poorer and it will not give you an essay. It gives you where Flarona has landed, how firmly, and which threads got it there. When the room is split it says so, and quotes the strongest case for the other view.
Rhys reads the answer aloud. Open the microphone once and it runs like a conversation: he speaks, you cut in whenever you like, and neither of you touches a button until it is over.
- Citations to the real threads
- A discussion you can push back on and dig into
- Hands-free: talk, listen, interrupt
- Only public, unsealed material. Never your messages.
You asked
Is remote work making cities poorer?
The position
City centres lost the lunchtime economy, not the tax base.
Confidence
Drawn from
The minority report
Rhys reads this out loud, and you can cut in.
Business Plus
Your customers are already talking about what you sell.
Point Business Plus at your website and it builds your profile and product list from what it reads there. Then it goes looking for the rooms where the thing you sell is already being discussed, drafts a reply in your voice, and waits. You approve every word before anybody sees it.
Saying plainly what you sell is a first-class use of this platform. It is not a rule to be smuggled past.
Create a business profileDrafted for you
We make the heated tube most of this thread is describing. The short answer is that humidity solves the eyes and mask fit solves the leak, and they are different problems.
- Your site, crawled and turned into a profile
- Verified against the company registry, with the badge to show it
- Conversations matched to what you actually sell
- Outreach drafted for you, and you approve every word
- Shareable lead pages with encrypted lead chat
- Analytics on what is working
Start with the record, and see who joins the conversation.
The profile, the rooms, the connections and the encrypted messages are free and stay free. Premium is there when you want the platform working on your behalf.
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