NUMENEON

About the Project

Numeneon is a "neopunk" social media platform built on the belief that feeds should serve people, not harvest attention. At its core is the River Timeline—a three-column chronological feed (Thoughts, Media, Milestones) where each friend gets their own row, capping at 12 posts per category so you can actually finish catching up instead of doom-scrolling forever.

Digital Congestion vs. Traffic Management

Modern social feeds suffer from "Information Congestion"—everything fights for the same narrow vertical space. The River Timeline treats UI as a traffic management system: Horizontal Currents create parallel flows for Thoughts, Media, and Milestones. The "Sluice Gate" limits each row to 12 items, curating the flood before it becomes overwhelming. The result is a "3-lane highway" of visibility instead of a single-lane jam.

The Architecture: "The Chain"

The frontend transforms raw data into the River flow in 4 explicit steps: GROUP → SORT → SPLIT → RENDER Posts are grouped by user, sorted by most recent activity, split at the 12-item limit, then rendered as organized rows.

The bigger vision is the Smart Feed Algorithm—a "boost" system that surfaces underseen posts so every voice gets heard, blending 30% boosted (underexposed creators), 20% hot (high engagement), and 50% chronological. It's anti-viral by design: the more something goes viral, the more it gets throttled, because outrage shouldn't win.

Add real-time messaging via WebSockets, and below the neon-lit main floor, a hidden MyStudio (a MySpace Basement tribute) with Top 8 friends, custom themes, and embedded music players. Built for people who think the internet should work for you, not extract from you.

The platform also includes a Daily Learning page featuring methods, loops, Big O notation, mythology culture curated weekly, plus a word of the day and tech term of the day—because I wanted to build something I would actually use.