The Pulse
What your neighbours make and share elsewhere, in one feed.
What it is
Open the Pulse from the The Pulse card on Home: tap a post, or tap See all. If you have hidden the card, bring it back with Edit home. On the phone you can also open it from Settings, under The Pulse.
The Pulse gathers what members of your community post on other sites: videos, music, blogs, photos. It is a way to find out what your neighbours make and do.
- Neighbours: posts from members' channels. The buttons along the top pick a subject, like Food & growing or Repair & reuse. All shows everything.
- Learn: videos about how BeanPool works, and a short daily reflection. See "The Learn lane".
Pull down to refresh.
The buttons along the top slide away as you scroll down. Scroll up a little and they come back.
Opening a post
A YouTube video: tap the picture, with the ▶ on it, and the video plays here in the card. Nothing is loaded from YouTube until you tap — scrolling past a video sends nothing to anyone. Tap the button in the corner of the video to fill the screen.
The video stops when you scroll it out of sight, when you leave the Pulse, and when you start a different one. Only one plays at a time.
Everything else — TikTok, Instagram, a blog, a website: tap the picture or the title and it opens in your browser or in that site's own app.
You can always open a video on YouTube instead: tap the title, or Open on YouTube ↗ underneath it. If a video will not play here — some people do not allow their videos to play outside YouTube, and some phones cannot — the card says so and offers you that button.
Something wrong with a post
- Someone else's post: tap the flag, choose why (Spam or scam, Offensive content, Misleading post or Other) and tap Submit report. The people who run your community's server look at it.
- Your own post: tap Hide, then Hide from feed. It comes off the Pulse for everyone.
You cannot hide someone else's post just for yourself.
Adding your own
Tap + Channels at the top. See "Sharing your channels".
Related
- HomeWhat Home is, which cards it shows on the phone and in the web app, how to reorder or hide them, picking what you're into, and privacy when you sign out.
- The Learn laneShort videos about BeanPool, and the guide pages they go with.
- Sharing your channelsPut your YouTube, blog, Instagram and other channels on the Pulse.
- Reporting a problemTell your community's moderators about a post, an event, a Pulse post or an enterprise.
- This guideWhere to find this guide, how to search it, and how it stays up to date.
The same guide is in the BeanPool app, and works there without a connection: open Settings, then "Help & how it works" under BeanPool. Every other rule, guide and manual is in the Help Centre. Guide version 112.