Great Aldous Huxley! Today we open Nonforum to the general public with our Open Beta. Users can create an account with any e-mail address and immediately logi

Great Aldous Huxley! Today we open Nonforum to the general public with our Open Beta. Users can create an account with any e-mail address and immediately login to take the site for a spin. You can share links or even just essays, and users who are logged in can then vote/rate these submissions with the Postage Stamp Rating System, where the top level is a "Doubleplus vote," the middle layer a "Plus vote" and the bottom layer a "Needs Work" or "minus vote." Nonforum is an ambitious project starting from the bottom: With small tidbits like links and user-submitted writings we plan to start indexing and archiving larger and larger swathes of Human Experience. More features are planned: Commenting and Discussions, Archiving of Posts, and a Feature-Rich Tagging System that will help us create an encyclopedic repo of Human Knowledge and Experience. The end goal is to have a reference place as well as a discussion forum, where the discussions fuel the archive and the archive helps keep discussions germane and informed. For the technically inclined, Nonforum is a Single-Page Application (SPA) that is built with Clojure and ClojureScript. The backend is Clojure using Datomic for the database operations (queries and writes), and the frontend is ClojureScript relying on Om.next for React-like UI Rendering. Essentially, there is an application state Atom (the name of atomically mutable structs in Clojure land) that holds all of the application state, and as this is updated with messages from the server, the UI is instantly re-rendered thanks to Om.next. We'd like to give our thanks to everyone who has contributed to Clojure and ClojureScript, and the many friends and developers who have helped hone and guide the formation of this concept. Although still early on, we are eager to get your feedback. You can send feedback to feedback<at>nonforum.com Thrive and Stay Informed!