Nearest first if you have shared your location, then a simple score, then a daily shuffle. That is the whole ordering.
The score has only four inputs, and none of them is popularity or money: whether the profile is live and complete, whether it is inside its first 60 days, whether it has been kept up to date, and whether it has gone stale.
The feed also deliberately shows two People for every one Place. If you have not shared your location, distance plays no part at all and the order falls through to score and the daily shuffle.
No. Localsville does not currently sell paid placement, profile boosts, or sponsored ranking. There is nothing to buy.
It is enforced in the code rather than only stated in copy: the ranking refuses paid input, and a profile's score cannot be set by anyone; it is recomputed from the permitted inputs on every save.
Yes, a free 60-day head start. When a profile first goes live it carries extra weight in the ordering for its first sixty days, so a new neighbor is not invisible next to someone who has been here a year.
It is automatic, it is the same for everyone, and it cannot be bought, renewed or extended.
Search looks for people who actually offer what you asked for. It works out what kind of help, thing or experience you mean, then shows people with an offering of that kind. A person's name, short description and offering titles count too.
The people who match best come first. Distance only decides between people who match equally well.
If nobody on Localsville offers it yet, Search says so instead of showing people who don't.
When your words don't name a kind of offering, the app may send just those words to OpenAI to work out what you mean. Older versions of the app only do that if you turned on Search with AI.
Deliberately rough. You see a phrase like "About 2 mi away", never an exact figure.
For a Person, the location behind that label is blurred to a grid roughly 275 meters across, and a Person is never shown as a point on a map.
A Place is different: if its owner confirmed a street address and chose to publish it, that Place does appear on the map. See Is my address ever shown?
Never for a Person. A Person profile cannot hold a street address at all: the server refuses to store one.
A Place can publish a street address, but only when two separate things are true: the address has been confirmed, and the owner has turned on the public-address setting. Otherwise nothing is returned.
A Place appears on the map only under those same conditions.
Because Localsville has not reached your community yet. Discover is scoped to one community at a time, and a community nobody has joined looks empty: that is honest rather than broken.
Localsville is starting on Oʻahu and building out community by community. It is early, and in most places you would be among the first.
A profile appears only once it is live, complete, and its owner's account is active.
Explore is a set of ready-made ways to look around your community: collections such as new around you, neighbors who can help, neighbors making things, local places to visit, and what is available for pickup, alongside a way into each of the six lenses.
The collections are rules, not editorial picks. Nobody chooses who appears in them and nobody can buy a place in one.
You meet the person first, then what they offer. That is built into the ordering rather than only stated in copy: Discover shows two People for every one Place, and the ordering refuses every paid and popularity signal.
In practice a profile starts with a person, their photo and their community, and their services and items sit underneath. People are Localsville.
Places are part of it too. A Place is a real local spot, such as a shop, a studio or a community space, and a Person profile connected to it always stays its owner's own.
