Photo flagging and moderation

One of the leading concerns we've had since launch is the public posting of inappropriate content on Rotzy. We provide a public feed of the freshest content in hopes of showing users what's happening at the moment, but the drawback is that this opens us up to abuse. This isn't just about the feed though, as we do not want any inappropriate content to be floating around as public posts at all.

With that said, we'd like to announce the ability to flag public photos via the Web (screenshot). Photos that are flagged will be reviewed by the Rotzy team, and will consequently be marked protected or even private if necessary. Once marked, photo owners will have to contact us if they feel it should be set back to public.

Rotzy is a general purpose mobile photo sharing tool, and we encourage all sorts of legal use. At the same time we feel that for certain types of photos, a 'protected' or 'private' setting is more appropriate, and will narrow the audience to only those who are interested.

We encourage everyone to keep sharing their photos, and also to help us moderate our public space!

Thanks
The Rotzy Team

Public photos back in your feed

Hi everyone!

In the past day or so since our launch, the number 1 suggestion that we've been receiving from our users is that they want to see PUBLIC PHOTOS. You see them initially while your feed is empty, but once you make some friends and post some photos, public photos are out of sight forever!

We're working on the next version of our iPhone app which will make the public feed a dedicated and easily accessible view. But before we submit that and wait for the oftentimes lengthy review process, we've modified our service a bit to work with the existing app and provide you with some public items directly in your Home feed.

This is how it works... along with the typical items you're used to seeing in your feed already, we've sprinkled some of the latest public photos throughout, so you can see what's happening in the public domain. We've set these apart with a "[Public Photo]" header, so hopefully they easily stand out from the rest of the items!

We realize that this isn't the best way to handle it, but we thought you'd all appreciate a quick fix while we get the next version out. Let us know what you think!

- The Rotzy Team

Rotzy is now Live!

Rotzy finally went live today when Apple officially released our app onto the App Store. You can get our iPhone app here. So far the response has been great and hopefully we can get lots of people to try it out and give us feedback!

Don't have an iPhone... try us out on the web first. We will be supporting lots more devices in the near future once we get going :-)

We hope you like Rotzy!