Signed in, your home page stops being a generic landing page and becomes your feed — your stats for the week, swims from the people you follow, activity at your favourite spots, and any meetups coming up. Two simple actions fill it: following swimmers and favouriting spots.
Follow swimmers from the members directory at /users — search by name or sort by who's most active — then open a profile and hit Follow. Their swims start showing in your feed and in the "Following" tab of the swims page. Like and comment on a swim and that swimmer gets a notification, which is how the community actually talks to itself.
Favourite spots from any spot page. Once a spot is a favourite you get notified whenever someone logs a swim there, adds a photo, or posts a conditions report — so your home lake, or a coast you're planning to visit, quietly keeps you posted without you having to check. It's the easiest way to stay close to the places you care about.
The bell in the nav collects everything aimed at you — likes, comments, new followers, and favourite-spot activity — and /notifications is the full history. Your own profile is the mirror image: other swimmers see your swims, the spots you've added, your stats, your level, and your badges.
The app rewards a little setup. Follow a handful of swimmers whose swims you'd enjoy seeing, favourite the three or four spots you swim most, and the home page becomes something worth opening daily rather than a tool you visit once. Start there and let the feed build itself.