The exchange
- You write a note — up to 768 characters. No sign-up, name or email.
- In return you get someone else's: random, from a stranger. Up to 5 a day. Want more? Give another one of yours and get another one back (up to 5 trades like that a day).
- You decide its fate: “pass it on” gives the note 3 reads more, “enough” takes away 1 read.
A new note starts with 3 reads; every draw uses one. When the reads run out, the note is never drawn again. Authors never see their own note again: the box never hands you your own text.
Survivors
When 50 readers say “pass it on” to a note, it leaves circulation and stays forever among the Survivors — the only place where notes can be read one after another and where they have links. It can't be gamed: notes in circulation have no links or numbers, and only the person who drew a note can vote on it.
Survivors are public: each has its own page, and they appear in the feed, as the note of the day and on the box's social channels. Notes that readers keep passing on may appear there too, even before they survive — unless the author ticked “don't show my note on the box's social channels” when sending it. Always anonymously — no place and no author.
Why you can't reply
There's no way back: no chat, no profile, no way to find the author. That's exactly what keeps the box from turning into a dating site or a spam channel. Authors can follow their note's fate through a private link — whether it's alive and how many hands it has passed through — but they'll never know who read it.
What is stored and what isn't
- The note's text and its counters: reads, votes, reports.
- Approximate location — coordinates rounded to a whole degree (about 100 km), country and region. Readers only see “written about N km from you” or a country, never a point.
- An anonymous cookie — to remember limits and the note you're holding. The database keeps only its hash, and without activity the record is deleted after 365 days.
- An address fingerprint — a keyed hash, not the address itself. It stays with the note for 30 days so a moderator can stop a spammer, then it's erased.
Not stored: your address in service logs, email, phone, accounts. The site has no visitor counters, ads or third-party scripts.
Moderation
Links, phone numbers and other contacts are stopped by an automatic filter. When a note collects 3 reports, it's pulled from circulation until a person reviews it. Moderators see the text, but not who wrote it.
Tell people about the box
The box has no ads and no counters — it lives exactly as long as people tell each other about it. If you liked it here, pass the link on: that's the only way anyone ever finds this place.