You're already listed. Meet Categories.

Browse by what's real, not who's loudest

Discover has always been the heart of Diamour — the curated feed where Spotlight, Today's Introduction and Common Ground bring the right people to you. Today we're adding a second lens to that same home. Categories is a new sub-tab inside Discover, and a pill toggle at the top switches between the two: “For you”, the curated feed you already know, and “Categories”, a new way to browse by who people already are. The header, title and toggle stay put when you switch, so it reads as one home for discovery rather than two separate screens. The idea in a line: find your people by what's already on their profile — work, faith, pets and more.

Instead of endless scrolling, you walk straight into the group you're drawn to. Medicine. Business & Finance. Tech & Engineering. Educators. Care & Community. Law & Order. Alongside the professions sit the lifestyle and values groups that matter in the diaspora — Dog & Cat Lovers, Fitness & Health, and Faith. Each one is a beautifully themed card that shows, at a glance, how many people are inside it. It's less like searching and more like choosing which room to walk into.

From there, you find people, then find your person. Search categories by name. Narrow the grid with filter chips — All · Occupation · Health · Faith — which are generated from the live category set, so they always match what's actually available. And you can browse the way that suits you: a two-column visual mosaic by default, or a clean, full-width list.

Step inside a category and it opens with a full-bleed hero in the category's own artwork and colour. Just beneath it, a provenance line keeps the logic transparent and warm — “Everyone here listed Dog on their profile.” If you belong there, a gentle “You're listed here · edit profile” link lets you know. Then comes the People grid, sortable by Nearby, Active or New, with standout members carrying a Spotlight badge and a simple “Load more people” control when you want to keep looking.

Membership you earn just by being yourself

There's no “join” button anywhere in Categories, and that's the whole point. You appear in a category purely because of what's already on your profile — your work, your faith, your pets, your lifestyle. Nothing new to fill in. Want to change where you show up? Update your profile. It's a deliberate, on-brand choice: it removes friction, and it keeps the platform honest. Every category is a room full of people who genuinely are what the label says.

It also sets the tone we wanted. The copy throughout is deliberately calm — “Find people through what they've already shared — their work, pets, lifestyle and more. Nothing new to fill in.” When a category is still filling up, the empty state reads “As more people list this on their profile, they'll show up here. Take your time.” No FOMO, no “don't miss out.” That measured register is the Diamour promise, not a growth hack — the same intentional pace we bring to every part of the app.

Under the surface, Categories is built to grow quietly. Categories are server-owned, which means the team can add, retire, re-theme or re-colour them — and set the minimum member count before one appears — entirely from the backend, with no app update required. A new category can roll out overnight. The launch set is culture-first by design, spanning real professions and diaspora-relevant values: faith, community, and family-minded lifestyle groups.

And it's built to stay smooth as those rooms fill up. Lazy rendering, right-sized image decoding and per-screen memory cleanup keep the grid fluid even as categories grow. It ships alongside a centralised photo-privacy blur, so private photos stay protected consistently across every surface in the app. Categories is the newest lens on Discover — a way to find your people, not just a face, by starting from who they already are.