House on Fire Forum

House on Fire is an online forum for people to connect, share and take action for older people’s housing across Australia. It makes use of bbPress and BuddyPress which we’ve modified to simplify the user experience to be as simple as possible for older people to use. Trying to lure people off Facebook we implemented Facebook and Google login to avoid the issue of asking people to save yet another login. While the site functions nicely, forming a thriving online community outside of the major social networks is a real challenge that we have yet to find the key to.