In response to social media culture that increasingly calls for people to patrol, police, and instruct users on web etiquette, the Free Emotional Labour Club is a Facebook group that promises to explain the new ground rules of online communication patiently, impartially, and for free.

In a connected world, it doesn’t take much for like-minded groups to develop. But while most are held together by a metaphorical glue, the online community that’s formed around Sugru – a mouldable substance that’s used to fix or customise almost anything – is held together by the real thing.

Nearly three decades since it was launched, the basic and clunky system of Echo, an early-era web forum, remains mostly unchanged, with many of its earliest members – now in their 50s, 60s and 70s – still daily users. How has this bare-bones platform stood the test of time?

People talk about the death of neighbourhoods, but 62% of Britons say they ‘belong’ to their local area in 2017, up from 58% in 2014. That’s not to say that some things haven’t changed though, with Facebook group ‘Buckingham: What matters to you’ showing how community spirit has moved online.