UOFT · SMALL TABLES · EVERY WEEK
Meet the rest of UofT.
Small tables around campus, already planned: board games on College, a study night at Robarts, dinner on Spadina. Take a seat, show up, and meet a few UofT students who came for the same thing.
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You'll hear the moment we're live in September, and the first tables open to the waitlist first. Until then we're @tangent.uoft.
WAITLIST · SEPTEMBER · UOFT
Free. Verified UofT email. Coming September.
How it works
The table's booked. Just show up.
PICK A TABLEPick a table. Every one has a set time, a public place and four to eight seats.
TAKE A SEATTake a seat with one tap. You see the activity and the seats left, never who's coming.
SHOW UPShow up. A table card marks the group, and whoever booked first says hi.
Afterward, if you'd sit with someone again, you tap once. If they tap too, you can keep talking, and the same seat is yours next week.
If a table doesn't fill, you get a one-tap alternative instead of a cancelled evening. Nobody organizes anything and nobody chases anyone for a time.
50
HOURS TO A CASUAL FRIEND
200
TO A CLOSE ONE
A friend takes about fifty hours. Here's the first evening.
About two-thirds of students say they're lonely, and on a commuter campus of 61,000 it's easy to see why: you sit near the same strangers in Con Hall all term and never learn a name. Research puts a casual friend at around 50 hours together and a close one at around 200. Nobody gets there from one evening, so the people who click keep getting seated at the same table until the hours add up.
SOURCE · HALL, 2019
Also
Between tables, ten minutes with a stranger.
Wednesday and Sunday nights, if you feel like it, you can get paired with another UofT student for a ten-minute blind conversation: text or voice, no names, no photos, and one thing you have in common to start you off. Afterward you each vote in private. Two yeses and you see who it was. One no and it stays closed for good, and nobody is told who said what.
WED + SUN · 9:00 PM 10:00 TEXT 6:00 VOICE
One no from either side, and it stays covered. Nobody is told who said what.
Seats, never faces.
- Verified, 18 or over
Every account is tied to a UofT email before anything else happens, and everyone is 18 or over.
- Public places, set times
Every table is in a public place at a set time. You always know where you're going and when.
- No list of people
There's nothing to scroll and nobody to message cold. Listings show the activity and the seats left, never who's coming.
- Reports read by a person
Reporting is one tap, during or after anything. Blocking is instant and permanent: you're never seated at the same table or paired again.
Built at UofT.
Tangent is developed by UofT students. The rules we're holding to: nobody browses people, nobody swipes, nothing pushes you past friendship, and every table is in a public place. Questions go to [email protected] and a person answers. We're recruiting, too: same address.
DEVELOPED BY UOFT STUDENTS
Be at the first table.
Coming in September. Sign up and you'll hear the moment we're live, and the first tables open to the waitlist first.
JavaScript is off in your browser. Email [email protected] and we'll add you by hand.
You're on the list.
You'll hear the moment we're live in September, and the first tables open to the waitlist first. Until then we're @tangent.uoft.
WAITLIST · SEPTEMBER · UOFT