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 beta

Free · no account, no download · your identity is 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.

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.

The fine print, up front.

This is not an anonymity tool: peers can see your IP address, and while nobody can read a private message, the fact that a message was sent is public. And the archive lives as long as your community does — if everyone leaves, the data goes with them. We'd rather tell you now than have you find out.

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

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