diff --git a/app/About/page.tsx b/app/About/page.tsx
index ba5e9023..b377e811 100644
--- a/app/About/page.tsx
+++ b/app/About/page.tsx
@@ -5,61 +5,129 @@ import {aColor} from "@/lib/client/constants";
 
 export default function About() {
 
-  // const [totalUsers, setTotalUsers] = useState<number>(0);
-  // useEffect(() => {
-  //   const getCount = async () => {
-  //     const countResponse = await fetch('/api/profiles/count');
-  //     if (countResponse.ok) {
-  //       const {count} = await countResponse.json();
-  //       setTotalUsers(count);
-  //     }
-  //   };
-  //
-  //   getCount();
-  // }, []); // <- runs once after initial mount
   return (
     <div className="text-gray-600 dark:text-white min-h-screen p-6">
       {aColor}
-      <div className="max-w-3xl mx-auto">
-        <h1 className="text-3xl font-bold  mb-4 text-center">About Compass</h1>
+      <div className="w-full">
+        <div className="w-screen relative left-1/2 right-1/2 -ml-[50vw] -mr-[50vw] bg-gray-100 dark:bg-gray-800 py-8 mb-8 overflow-hidden">
+          <div className="relative z-10 max-w-3xl mx-auto px-4">
+            <h1 className="text-3xl font-bold mb-4 text-center">Why Choose Compass?</h1>
+            <div className="flex flex-col md:flex-row items-center justify-center mb-8 gap-8">
+              <div className="w-40 h-40 bg-gray-200 rounded-xl flex items-center justify-center overflow-hidden">
+                <img src="/favicon.ico" alt="Compass logo" className="w-full h-full object-cover" />
+              </div>
+              <div className="w-full max-w-2xl mx-auto text-center md:text-left">
+                <h3 className="text-2xl font-bold mb-2">Built for users, by users.</h3>
+                <p className="text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-300 text-lg">Open, transparent, and truly user-first. No paywalls, no addictive algorithms, no venture capital. Just real people, real values, and real connections.</p>
+              </div>
+            </div>
+            <div className="flex justify-center mb-8">
+              <Link
+                href="/register"
+                className="px-8 py-3 text-white text-lg rounded-full font-bold shadow transition bg-gradient-to-r from-red-700 to-red-900 hover:from-red-800 hover:to-red-950"
+              >
+                Join Now
+              </Link>
+            </div>
+          </div>
+        </div>
         <div className="et_pb_text_inner">
-          {/*<h1 id="abstract">Abstract</h1>*/}
-          <p>Forming and maintaining close connections is fundamental for most people’s mental health—and hence overall
-            well-being. However, currently available meeting platforms, lacking transparency and searchability, are
-            deeply failing to bring together thoughtful people. This platform is designed to
-            foster close friendships and relationships for people who prioritize learning, curiosity, and critical
-            thinking. The directory of users is fully transparent and each profile contains extensive
-            information, allowing searches over all users through powerful filtering and sorting methods. To prevent any
-            value drift from this pro-social mission, the platform will always be free, ad-free, not for profit,
-            donation-supported, open source, and democratically governed.</p>
-          <div className="mt-8 flex space-x-4 justify-center">
-            <Link
-              href="/manifesto"
-              className="px-6 py-3 bg-gray-200 dark:bg-gray-600 text-gray-800 dark:text-white text-lg rounded-full hover:bg-gray-300 dark:hover:bg-gray-500 transition"
-            >
-              The Deeper Why
-            </Link>
+          <div className="max-w-3xl mx-auto mt-8 mb-8">
+            <section className="mb-12">
+              <h2 className="text-3xl font-bold mb-4">Search EXACTLY What You're Looking For</h2>
+              <p className="text-lg text-gray-500">Keyword search from our entire database. Meet your introverted rock climbing dream bae who's also into Magic the Gathering and cats. ME-OW!</p>
+            </section>
+            <section className="mb-12">
+              <h2 className="text-3xl font-bold mb-4">Get Notified About Your Searches</h2>
+              <p className="text-lg text-gray-500">When someone joins and meets your search criteria, get notified!</p>
+              <p className="text-lg text-gray-500">Goodbye swipe addiction. Hello precious time!</p>
+            </section>
+            <section className="mb-12">
+              <h2 className="text-3xl font-bold mb-4">Everything is free. Seriously.</h2>
+              <p className="text-lg text-gray-500">No subscriptions. No paywalls. We're designed by regular people who were fed up by inaccessible and extractive dating apps.</p>
+            </section>
+            <section className="mb-12">
+              <h2 className="text-3xl font-bold mb-4">Character is Hot</h2>
+              <p className="text-lg text-gray-500">Personality first, pictures last. Instead of swiping on people based on how hot that six pack looks, let's focus on how he saved that cat from a tree.</p>
+            </section>
+            <section className="mb-12">
+              <h2 className="text-3xl font-bold mb-4">Fully Transparent</h2>
+              <p className="text-lg text-gray-500">You're in the know. Our code is open source, there are clear policies, absolutely no data-selling, and we are community designed.</p>
+            </section>
+          </div>
+        </div>
+        <div className="w-screen relative left-1/2 right-1/2 -ml-[50vw] -mr-[50vw] bg-gray-100 dark:bg-gray-800 py-8 mt-12 overflow-hidden">
+          <div className="relative z-10 max-w-3xl mx-auto px-4">
+            <h3 className="text-4xl font-bold text-center mt-8 mb-8">Help Improve Compass</h3>
+            <div className="grid grid-cols-1 md:grid-cols-2 gap-8 mb-8">
+              <div className="bg-white dark:bg-gray-900 rounded-xl shadow p-6 flex flex-col items-center">
+                <h5 id="give-suggestions-or-contribute" className="font-bold mb-4 text-xl text-center">Give Suggestions or Contribute</h5>
+                <p className="mb-4 text-center">Give suggestions or let us know you want to help through this form!</p>
+                <a
+                  href="https://forms.gle/tKnXUMAbEreMK6FC6"
+                  className="px-6 py-2 rounded-full bg-gray-200 text-gray-800 font-semibold text-lg shadow hover:bg-gray-300 dark:bg-gray-700 dark:text-white dark:hover:bg-gray-600 transition"
+                  target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
+                >
+                  Suggest Here
+                </a>
+              </div>
+              <div className="bg-white dark:bg-gray-900 rounded-xl shadow p-6 flex flex-col items-center">
+                <h5 id="join-chats" className="font-bold mb-4 text-xl text-center">Join Chats</h5>
+                <p className="mb-4 text-center">Join the community to shape the product—or just chat with like-minded people.</p>
+                <a
+                  href="https://discord.gg/8Vd7jzqjun"
+                  className="px-6 py-2 rounded-full bg-gray-200 text-gray-800 font-semibold text-lg shadow hover:bg-gray-300 dark:bg-gray-700 dark:text-white dark:hover:bg-gray-600 transition"
+                  target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
+                >
+                  Join the Discord
+                </a>
+              </div>
+              <div className="bg-white dark:bg-gray-900 rounded-xl shadow p-6 flex flex-col items-center">
+                <h5 id="share" className="font-bold mb-4 text-xl text-center">Tell Your Friends and Family</h5>
+                <p className="mb-4 text-center">We're a new app, and the more people who use it, the more useful it is!</p>
+              </div>
+              <div className="bg-white dark:bg-gray-900 rounded-xl shadow p-6 flex flex-col items-center">
+                <h5 id="donate" className="font-bold mb-4 text-xl text-center">Donate</h5>
+                <p className="mb-4 text-center">We're not-for-profit with no paywalls for the best user experience. Support the infrastructure. (GitHub has increased transparency, but requires an account).</p>
+                <div className="flex flex-col gap-4 w-full items-center">
+                  <a
+                    href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/MartinBraquet"
+                    className="px-6 py-2 rounded-full bg-gray-200 text-gray-800 font-semibold text-lg shadow hover:bg-gray-300 dark:bg-gray-700 dark:text-white dark:hover:bg-gray-600 transition w-full text-center"
+                    target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
+                  >
+                    Donate on PayPal
+                  </a>
+                  <a
+                    href="https://github.com/sponsors/MartinBraquet"
+                    className="px-6 py-2 rounded-full bg-gray-200 text-gray-800 font-semibold text-lg shadow hover:bg-gray-300 dark:bg-gray-700 dark:text-white dark:hover:bg-gray-600 transition w-full text-center"
+                    target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
+                  >
+                    Donate on GitHub
+                  </a>
+                </div>
+              </div>
+              <div className="bg-white dark:bg-gray-900 rounded-xl shadow p-6 flex flex-col items-center md:col-span-2">
+                <h5 id="github-repo" className="font-bold mb-4 text-xl text-center">Help Develop the App</h5>
+                <p className="mb-4 text-center">The source code and instructions for development are available on GitHub.</p>
+                <a
+                  href="https://github.com/BayesBond/BayesBond"
+                  className="px-6 py-2 rounded-full bg-gray-200 text-gray-800 font-semibold text-lg shadow hover:bg-gray-300 dark:bg-gray-700 dark:text-white dark:hover:bg-gray-600 transition"
+                  target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"
+                >
+                  View Code
+                </a>
+              </div>
+            </div>
+            <div className="flex justify-center mt-12 mb-16">
+              <Link
+                href="/register"
+                className="px-8 py-3 text-white text-lg rounded-full font-bold shadow transition bg-gradient-to-r from-red-700 to-red-900 hover:from-red-800 hover:to-red-950"
+              >
+                Join Compass
+              </Link>
+            </div>
           </div>
-          <h3 id="how-to-help">How to Help</h3>
-          <h5 id="give-suggestions-or-contribute">Give Suggestions or Contribute</h5>
-          <p>Give suggestions or let us know you want to help through this <a
-            href="https://forms.gle/tKnXUMAbEreMK6FC6">form</a>!</p>
-          <h5 id="join-chats">Join Chats</h5>
-          <p>Join the community on <a
-            href="https://discord.gg/8Vd7jzqjun">Discord</a> to shape and test the product—or just chat with
-            like-minded people.</p>
-          <h5 id="share">Share</h5>
-          <p>Share the app and article with people who may benefit from the product.</p>
-          <h5 id="donate">Donate</h5>
-          <p>Donate to support the initial infrastructure via <a
-            href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/MartinBraquet">PayPal</a> or <a
-            href="https://github.com/sponsors/MartinBraquet">GitHub</a> (GitHub has increased transparency, but requires
-            an account).</p>
-          <h5 id="github-repo">Source Code</h5>
-          <p>The source code and instructions for development are available on <a href="https://github.com/BayesBond/BayesBond">GitHub</a>.</p>
         </div>
-        {/*<h3 id="how-to-help">Statistics</h3>*/}
-        {/*<p>{totalUsers} total users</p>*/}
       </div>
     </div>
   );