The Feed: Following vs. Discovery

The feed is the first thing you see when you open BeastVault. Every post is a can someone logged: a new flavor they cracked, a variant they finally tracked down, a haul from a store they hadn't visited before. Someone hit 100 unique variants. Someone found a flavor they'd been looking for. That's the texture of the feed on any given day. More ways to post are in the works, but the core of the feed is always the cans people are finding and drinking.

There are two modes, and they serve different purposes.

Following

Following shows you posts from people you've chosen to follow. It's curated in the most literal sense: you built the list, you see the output. If you've followed a handful of active collectors whose taste or location or pace of finding new cans overlaps with yours, this feed becomes genuinely useful. You're not drowning in activity from people you don't care about.

The trade-off is obvious: early on, before you've followed anyone, the Following feed is empty. You have to build it.

Discovery

Discovery is where you find people to follow. It surfaces active community members worth following, people who are actually out there finding cans and posting about it. The idea is that you can build a Following feed worth reading without having to search for people manually.

As you engage with Discovery, your Following feed gets better. The two modes are meant to work together over time.

Interacting with posts

On any post, you can like it, comment, and reply to comments in a thread. Tapping the can in a post takes you to that variant's detail page in the catalog, useful if you want to see ratings, the product line, or who else has logged it. Tapping the user's name goes to their profile, where you can see their wall, stats, and posts. Posts can include photos, so a lot of the best ones have images of the actual can: something rare they tracked down, a lineup from their latest haul.

The community it creates

The feed works because the thing people are posting about is specific enough to matter. This isn't a general interest community where conversations drift. Every post is about Monster Energy in some form. That focus is what makes Discovery useful. The people surfaced there are genuinely active in the same niche.

If you're new to the app, the Add Friends screen offers a hand-picked list of featured active collectors as a starting point. It's there specifically so you don't land on an empty Following feed with no idea who to look for.

For the collection side that feeds most of what people post about, building your wall explains how the wall grows from your logs.