A forum nobody can take away.
Every community lives on somebody else's computer — until the rules change, the bill lapses, or the admin quits, and years of it vanish. hostnought lives in your members' browsers instead. No server. No landlord. Close our site tomorrow and your community still has everything.
Open the betaFree · no account, no download · your identity is a passkey or a key made on your device
It just feels like a forum.
Post, reply, vote, search, send private messages. The unusual part is invisible: every open tab carries a small encrypted piece of the archive, and when people leave, the data quietly heals itself onto whoever's around.
👑 this tab took swarm leadership (Web Locks election) 🧩 sealed segment 49eeb3e1 — 30 events → 40 fragments spread to rendezvous holders 🔧 repaired 1 segment — rebuilt from any 8 fragments, re-spread 🧊 evicted 2,500 sealed events from RAM (20,000 resident of 100,000) ⚙️ job verified by hash majority → b3-37a454d0
Nobody can read your DMs. Including us.
There is no "us" to trust. Messages are encrypted on your device, and there are no moderator gods with a delete-everything button — every post is signed, so nothing can be forged or silently edited either.
We'd rather tell you now.
Want to build on it?
Apps here are event schemas plus fold rules plus a UI — no server, no database, no hosting bill, and your users keep the data if you ever walk away. Read the developer docs →
$ curl -fsSL https://hostnought.com/install.sh | sh $ hostnought new myapp && cd myapp $ hostnought dev
Don't take our word for any of this.
The whole design is written up as a paper — how the storage heals itself, what we measured, where it broke, and the parts that are still weak. Read it in the browser → or grab the PDF.
Bring your people.
It's an open beta. Kick the tires, try to break it, tell us what's ugly.
Open the beta