Campus life, as students tell it

Rate every mess meal. Review the hostel, the labs, the buses and the library. Raise the things that need fixing, and watch whether they get fixed.

Four things students kept asking for

Most of this used to happen in WhatsApp groups, where a good complaint scrolled away by lunch. Here it stays put, and it adds up.

  1. Mess ratings, meal by meal

    One rating per student per meal, so the average means something. You can change yours for a week, and a seven day trend sits on the dashboard.

  2. Reviews with a proper write-up

    Star ratings with room to say what actually happened, replies underneath, and a button to mark the useful ones so they rise to the top.

  3. Complaints that keep a status

    Open, in progress, resolved or rejected. Closing one needs a note the student can read. Anyone with the same problem adds their name, so forty students with a broken cooler count as forty, not one.

  4. Notices you can find again

    Announcements from the site admin, with the important ones pinned to the top instead of lost under two hundred forwards.

Every part of campus, in one place

Each area has its own page with a running score, every review written about it, and the complaints still open.

    Three steps, about a minute

    1. Use your college email

      Sign-up only accepts an address ending in @poornima.org. That's what keeps the site to students and staff.

    2. Type in the code we email you

      Six digits, valid for ten minutes. Then choose a password of ten characters or more, and a username if you want one.

    3. Rate today's lunch

      It's the quickest place to start. Then review something you have an opinion about, or back a complaint someone has already raised.

    What "anonymous" means here

    Any review, reply or complaint can go up without your name. Someone still has to be able to deal with abuse, so if you need to stay anonymous from the college itself, this isn't the right place.

    Fig. 1 An anonymous hostel review, as another student sees it. The numbers match the notes.
    1. What other students see

      "Anonymous student", with no name, username or photo.

    2. What your profile lists

      Only the reviews you posted with your name. Anonymous ones never appear or count.

    3. What the site admin can do

      Find out who wrote anything, when it's needed to deal with a report.

    Your password is kept as an Argon2id hash. Nobody, including the admin, can read it back.

    Read the privacy notice

    Before you sign up

    Something else? Ask the site admin.

    Does raising a complaint here get it fixed?

    It makes the problem visible and countable, with a date and a place. That's harder to ignore than a message in a group chat. It isn't a formal grievance to the college, though, so if you need the college to act, use its own process as well.

    Can a review be taken down?

    Anyone can report a review that breaks the guidelines. The site admin reads the report and can hide the review, and its author sees why. Only the author can change the words.

    What's the community board?

    A board for photos and posts from campus, with reactions and comments, and a live chat with rooms for the hostel, classes, events and memes. Posts are anonymous by default: other students see a made-up name, different in every thread. It's open once you've signed in.

    I've forgotten my password.

    Reset it here. We'll email a code to the address you signed up with, and you choose a new password.

    Are there ads or tracking?

    There are no ads on this site. Google Analytics counts visits, and only stores a cookie if you say yes in the banner; the privacy notice has the details. Signing in sets one cookie of our own, and fonts, icons and pictures are served from this site.