local_fire_department While We Here
How it works

A room that only exists
while you're in it.

Start a room, share the code, talk. When the last person leaves, everything is gone: the messages, the code, and any sign the room existed.

  • no_accountsNo accounts, no names
  • public_offIP hidden from the room
  • lockEnd-to-end encrypted
  • visibility_offNo logs
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Start a new room

You'll get a code to share.

People in the room Including you. Set once, when the room starts.
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Have a code?

Rooms hold as many people as their creator chose.

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Anonymous by design

Not a setting you turn on. It's how the whole thing is built. There's nothing to sign up for and nothing that points back to you.

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Nobody knows who you are

No sign-up, phone number, email or name. No cookies, analytics or trackers. In the room you're just "Someone", and a brand-new someone every visit.

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Your IP is hidden from the room

Everything travels through our relay. Nobody in the room ever connects to your device, so nobody in the room can see your IP address or where you are.

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Only the room can read it

Messages are end-to-end encrypted with a key made from the room code, which never leaves your device. Our relay carries scrambled data it can't open.

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Even message length is hidden

Before encryption, every message is padded to a standard size. To the relay, "ok" and a long paragraph look exactly the same.

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No logs in our code

Our relay keeps no IP logs, message logs or access logs, and writes nothing to disk. It sees your IP only while you're connected, because that's how it sends data back to you. The companies hosting this site (GitHub and Render) may keep their own standard connection logs. Tor gets around that.

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Hide your IP from us too

Open While We Here in Tor Browser. It works there because we never use direct browser-to-browser connections (WebRTC), which Tor blocks. Then not even our server knows where you are.

— rooms have existed and vanished today. It's the only number this site keeps.

Like a campfire

It keeps burning as long as someone is sitting by it. When the last person walks away, it goes out.

  1. 1

    Start a room

    Pick a room size and press New room. You're the only one inside, holding a short code.

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    Share the code

    In person, by text, on paper. However you like. We never see it.

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    Come and go

    While one person stays, the chat stays. Open seats can be filled by anyone with the code.

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    The fire goes out

    The last person leaves, and the room is gone forever. Nobody can recover it, including us.

Where the chat lives

Not on our server. Only in the browsers of the people in the room. When the last browser closes, the only copy closes with it.

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What our server knows

  • That a room is active right now, by a scrambled ID. Not the code itself.
  • How many people are inside, and how many the room can hold.
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What it never sees

  • Your messages. They're end-to-end encrypted with a key only the code can unlock.
  • Your IP address, as far as the other person is concerned. Traffic is relayed, never direct.
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What it forgets

  • The room, the instant it empties.
  • No accounts, no names, no logs. The code is open source so anyone can check.

Honest limits

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Screenshots

This site keeps no record. That's the promise. It can't stop someone from photographing their screen.

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Abuse

With zero records, there's nothing we could investigate. Rooms need a code, so strangers can't wander in, and any room can be locked.

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Who you were with

Without Tor, whoever runs the relay could see which connections shared a room and when. Never what was said. Tor Browser hides this too.

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Local law

Anonymous messaging is regulated in some places. Know the rules where you are.