Community Noticeboard Guide
Use the Community Noticeboard to share useful local information, ask for help and connect with travellers around your current location.
Your local traveller noticeboard
The Community Noticeboard is designed for information and conversations that are useful to travellers around a location. It can help you share a local update, ask for assistance, organise something with nearby travellers or pass on information that may help others.
1. How the Community Noticeboard works
Open Community
Use the Community area to see Noticeboard posts relevant to the location you are viewing.
Browse local posts
Read posts from other travellers and official VanLife Connect posts that may be useful to the wider community.
Use Find Around when needed
Where available, use Find Around to look beyond your immediate location and see relevant activity in the surrounding area.
2. Create a Community post
When you have something useful to share or ask, create a post and give other travellers enough information to understand it quickly.
Select Create Post
Open the Community Noticeboard and use the option to create a new post.
Choose the right category
Select the category that best describes what your post is about so other travellers can understand and filter the content more easily.
Add a clear title and description
Say what you need or what you are sharing, include the relevant location or timing, and avoid making other users guess what the post is about.
Add useful supporting information
Where the app allows it, add a relevant image or tag if it genuinely helps other users understand or find the post.
3. Use categories and tags
Categories organise Community posts into broad topics. Tags can add more specific context where they are available.
- Choose the category that most closely matches the purpose of your post.
- Use a relevant tag where available if it helps describe the topic more precisely.
- Do not select unrelated categories or tags simply to make a post more visible.
- Use filters when you want to narrow the Noticeboard to the type of information you are looking for.
4. Interact with Community posts
Community is intended to make it easier for travellers to help and communicate with each other. Keep replies relevant to the original post and useful to the people involved.
- Respond with information that is relevant to the post.
- Be respectful when you disagree or have a different experience.
- Do not publish another person’s private contact information.
- Be cautious about relying on unverified information supplied by another user.
- For emergencies or immediate safety issues, use the appropriate emergency or official service rather than relying on a Community post.
5. Community guidelines
VanLife Connect is built around practical, respectful interaction between travellers. Posts and replies should contribute to that purpose.
- Be respectful and communicate as you would around a real campsite.
- Keep posts genuine, relevant and reasonably accurate.
- Do not harass, threaten, bully or discriminate against other users.
- Do not post unlawful, dangerous, fraudulent or deliberately misleading content.
- Do not publish private or sensitive information about another person without permission.
- Do not spam the Noticeboard or repeatedly post the same content.
- Do not use Community posts to avoid VanLife Connect’s service booking and payment process.
- Follow campground, caravan park and local rules when organising activities or offering assistance.
6. Report inappropriate content or behaviour
If you see a post, reply or user behaviour that appears to breach VanLife Connect’s rules, use the available Report option rather than escalating the situation publicly.
Open the relevant content or profile
Use the Report option associated with the post, content or user where available.
Select the appropriate reason
Choose the reason that most accurately describes the issue and provide useful context if requested.
Let VanLife Connect review it
Reported content may be reviewed against the platform rules and appropriate action may be taken where required.
Community posts and paid services
The Community Noticeboard is not a substitute for the Services Marketplace. If you are offering a paid service, create and manage it through the Services area so bookings, payments, reviews and platform protections remain connected to the transaction.
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