We’re so excited to announce the next phase of our work. … Read More
Join us in making the internet better
An exciting announcement about the future of The Coral Project … Read More
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The General Data Protection Regulation & Us
How we’re making it easy for you to be GDPR compliant with Talk … Read More
Our First Hack Day
Our team spent a day focusing on side projects that help our work. Here’s what we made. … Read More
Slacking On
A new way to moderate comments … Read More
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A New Advisor
Meet the newest member of our advisory board, Julia B. Chan … Read More
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Preguntas y Respuestas
How Univision used our Ask tool as part of a live TV event … Read More
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Help Us Broaden The Conversation
Announcing our latest research collaboration, an investigation into underserved communities of color … Read More
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It’s time for you to try Ask
Our first product, Ask, is available for you to download and use … Read More
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How To Use Forms With Your Audience
If you don’t ask in the right way, you can alienate the readers with whom you’re trying to connect … Read More
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Our First Hackathon
Earlier this month in Washington, DC, we held a collaborative event around data and visualization. Here’s what everyone made … Read More
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Three new users
We’ve added some new users to our personas list … Read More
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A Change of Focus
Our Project Lead explains why we’ve altered our approach … Read More
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Meet Our Users
We’ve created a fictional group of personas to help us build for real user needs. How can we improve them? … Read More
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Beyond Comments: Our First Event
What would our software look like as a real-world experience? … Read More
This Year In Coral
Here’s what we did and what’s next. … Read More
Our Code of Conduct
We expect everyone contributing to The Coral Project to follow this code. … Read More
The Math Behind the Metrics
Measuring trust is no simple matter. It requires a lot of careful thought – and some math. … Read More
Our First Technology Decisions
It’s hard to code something out of nothing. Here are the first technology decisions we’ve had to make. … Read More
How Can Our Trust Tool Help You?
We want to hear from you. Tell us how you might use our first product. … Read More
What makes us different
There are many existing comment platform vendors out there. We’re not like them. … Read More
Our First Product
We’re building a tool to help publishers better manage their roster of commenters and contributors. It’s the first of many tools to come. … Read More
I’ve done a lot of internet commentary
Comment sections exist because we feel a need to connect around the news. How do we honor that intention while creating a safer space for everyone? … Read More
A problem like the comments
What is the journalistic purpose of engagement and community? … Read More
Introducing Our Community Lead
We’re excited for you to meet the latest member of the team. … Read More
Here we are
What we’ll be doing, how we’ll be doing it, and how you can help us. … Read More
12,000 people have something to say
We’ve just released a study of thousands of commenters, conducted with the Engaging News Project at the University of Texas-Austin … Read More