June 22 – June 28, 2026
A lightweight community layer goes live on darminsky.ca
The venture-lab platform shipped its community layer this week. Every project page now has an aggregate like button and a moderated comment thread, plus a no-account notification preference center so visitors can manage what they hear about. It's built email-first, privacy-safe, and behind a moderation queue — nothing public until it's reviewed. Behind the scenes, the admin dashboard also gained AI-suggested newsletter candidates to make weekly updates less manual.
Project updates
Project pages now support likes (aggregate count only — never individual identities) and comments that are held in a pre-moderation queue before they appear. A new tokenized notification preference center lets anyone manage their follow and newsletter settings separately, with no account required. The admin side gained an AI helper that suggests which projects have newsletter-worthy progress, so the updates loop stays sustainable for a solo operator.
Shipped
- Phase 4 — Lightweight Community Layer live (follows, likes, moderated comments)
Decisions
- Likes ship alongside comments — email-keyed and aggregate-only, so the public page never exposes who liked
- Comments go through a pre-moderation queue: nothing renders publicly until it's approved
- Community identity stays email-based — no accounts, no passwords in v1