It is a forum for Chinese people in North America who are students and workers to discuss schools, employers, and the visa policy of the United States.

[9] Users in 2020 discussed having the "sword of Damocles" hanging over their heads in response to proposed changes from the United States Department of Homeland Security that would shorten how much time international students could remain in the country.

[9] Forum participants made the hashtags "#IsItTooLateToLearnCoding" and "#HowArtandBizMajorsBecomeProgrammers" trend as many people who had studied majors outside of computer science like education, literature, and finance hoped to find a programming role.

[9] On October 12, 2022, a female Chinese student who had graduated from Olin Business School in 2012 made a pseudonymous allegation of sexual harassment on a 1Point3Acres WeChat post against Philip H. Dybvig after he received the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

[3] The Chinese edition of Scientific American in June 2020 called CovidNet "the world's most real-time, extensive, and geographically differentiated COVID-19 tracking platform".

[3] An article in Cartography and Geographic Information Science said CovidNet "may possess unique advantages in early reporting of data, but for the most part it has lower disagreement coefficients with other datasets to date".