If you only read
Nothing is collected. There are no analytics, no advertising, no third-party scripts and no tracking cookies. Reading a post leaves no record tied to you.
If you sign in
Signing in with Google, Facebook or X tells us three things about you: an account identifier from that provider, your display name, and your profile picture. That is all we ask any of them for.
Google additionally passes us your email address, which is held in the sign-in service. It is not shown anywhere on the site, is not used to contact you, and is not asked for at all when you sign in with Facebook or X.
We never see and never ask for your password. The sign-in happens on the provider's own pages. What they tell us in return is all we get.
If you comment
Your comment, your display name and your profile picture are published on the post. Comments are public: anyone can read them, including people who are not signed in and search engines.
Upvotes are recorded against your account so that the site can show you what you have already voted on, and so that you cannot vote twice. Which comments you upvoted is not shown to anyone else.
A count of how many comments you have posted in the past hour is kept, to stop automated abuse. It deletes itself after a couple of hours.
Automated moderation
Every comment is checked by an AI model before other readers can see it. The text of your comment, and the title of the post it appears on, are sent to Anthropic's Claude running inside Amazon Bedrock in our own AWS account. Amazon states that content sent to Bedrock is not used to train models and is not shared with model providers.
When Tasha replies to a comment, that comment's text is sent to the same service to write her reply. Her replies are AI-generated. They are labelled with a badge so you can tell.
Automated moderation gets things wrong in both directions. If your comment is rejected you are told why, and you can edit it and post it again.
Cookies
There are exactly two, both strictly functional:
- A sign-in cookie, set when you sign in and lasting thirty days. It holds your account identifier, display name and picture. It cannot be read by scripts in your browser.
- A short-lived cookie used only during the sign-in round trip, to confirm the request came back to the same browser that started it. It lasts ten minutes.
There are no analytics or advertising cookies, because there is no analytics or advertising. Signing out removes both.
Who else is involved
- Amazon Web Services hosts the entire site, stores the data, and runs the moderation model. Everything is held in the United States.
- Google, Facebook or X, depending on which you choose to sign in with. Their own privacy policies govern what they do with the fact that you signed in here.
Nobody else. Nothing is sold, rented, or handed to advertisers or data brokers, and there is no arrangement under which that could happen.
How long things are kept
- Comments stay until you delete them or the site stops existing.
- Your account record stays while your account does.
- Sign-in sessions expire after thirty days.
- Anti-abuse counters expire after about two hours.
- Server logs are kept for one month and are not tied to your identity.
What you can do
You can delete any comment of your own from the page it is on. Deleting replaces the text with a placeholder and keeps the empty entry in place, so that replies underneath it still make sense. Your name and picture are removed from it.
Signing out ends your session everywhere, on every device, not just the one you are using.
To have your account and everything attached to it deleted, or to ask what is held about you, use the contact form. Deletion is handled within thirty days of asking.
If you signed in with Facebook, you can also ask from Facebook's side — removing this app under Settings, or deleting your Facebook account, sends us a deletion request directly. Those are carried out the moment they arrive, and Facebook gives you a link and a confirmation code to check what was done.
Deletion, by either route, removes:
- Your account record, your name and your picture.
- Your sign-in itself, so the account cannot be used again. Signing in later makes a new one.
- Every vote you have cast.
- The text of every comment you have written, along with your name and picture on each. Where a comment had replies, the empty entry stays in place, as above, so that other people's replies still make sense.
Children
This site is not intended for children under 13, and accounts are not knowingly created for them.
If this changes
The date at the top changes when this page does. Since the site is open source, the exact change is visible in its history.
Who is responsible
This site is run by David Lai as a personal project. Questions about anything above go through the contact form.