What is a circle?
Circles are groups neighbors start for a building, street, school or club, with group chats, a Board of tools and a buy and sell room.
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A circle is a group that neighbors start for themselves: your apartment building or residents' association, your street, a school parents' group, a club or your office. Think of it as the WhatsApp group your block already has, with the extra tools a block actually needs.
What's inside a circle
- Groups. Every circle has General, where everyone in the circle can talk. Admins can add more groups for topics like Maintenance, Parents or Lost & found. See Join, request and leave groups.
- Announcements. An optional group where only admins post. See The Announcements group.
- Buy & sell and Polls & events. Two rooms that collect every listing, poll and event posted in the circle. See The Buy & sell and Polls & events rooms.
- The Board. Tools beyond the chat: trusted helpers, important numbers, circle rules and, for apartments, a help desk and space booking. See What's on a circle's board.
How circles differ from your Home feed
Posts on your Home are public and reach your area. What's said in a circle's groups stays with the people in that group. Even in an Open circle, outsiders can only read General, and only members can write.
Who runs a circle
The person who starts a circle is its owner. The owner can make other members admins to help approve join requests, add groups and keep things tidy. See Roles and handing over a circle.
Common questions
Is a Zinola circle the same as a WhatsApp group?
Can anyone start a circle on Zinola?
Can I be in more than one circle?
Who can read what I write in a circle?
Related articles
- Kinds of circle and the groups they start withThe six kinds of circle, the starter groups each gets, which Board tools come with it, and how apartment circles count one vote per home.
- Open, closed and invite-only circlesWho can find a circle, who can get in and who can read it, for each privacy setting, plus the extra joining rules admins can switch on.
- Join, request and leave groups in a circleGroups are smaller chats inside a circle. Join open ones, ask to join private ones, pin or mute them, and leave without leaving the circle.
- How do I start a circle?Start a circle for your building, street, school or club in four steps, with every field explained: what is required, the limits and what each does.