The feed & replies.

The Discover feed is the front page: today's prompt up top, then a stream of fresh doodles, replies, and the occasional event. Everything public lands here, so posting your take is all it takes to be seen.

Hearting a work is the basic unit of kindness here, and it does double duty: on daily-prompt entries, reactions are also the votes that decide the day's podium. React freely. It costs nothing and makes someone's day.

The strongest compliment on Bakatako is a drawn reply: answering someone's doodle with a doodle. Add a friend for their character, continue the scene, escalate the bit.

• Replies are full works of their own, timelapse and all, and stay attached to the original, so the whole thread of riffs is browsable.
• Replies can be liked too, and a great reply often out-hearts the post it answers. That's considered an honor for both parties.
• Works also take regular text comments, but around here drawing back is the love language.

• Favorites — Bookmark any work and find it again in favorites. Think of it as your personal museum wing.
• Following — Follow artists you like from their profile, and their new work shows up for you. Follower counts live on profiles, but nobody's keeping score very seriously.

Notifications collect everything aimed at you: new followers, reactions, comments, drawn replies, and likes on your replies. Reactions on the same work bundle into one row with a little avatar stack instead of flooding you, and filters let you view just mentions, reactions, or follows.

Search finds bakas and works. It matches names directly, but it also understands vibes: searching “grumpy frog wizard” will surface doodles of grumpy frog wizards even if nobody titled them that.