Post a Confession

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Privacy & Safety

  • • Your confession is completely anonymous
  • • Your location is slightly fuzzed for privacy
  • • No personal information is stored
  • • Please be respectful and follow community guidelines

How posting an anonymous confession works

A confession on this board is not a post on a feed. It is left at a place. Once you pin it, it stays at those coordinates and waits — it does not scroll away, and it is not shown to people because they follow you, because there is nobody to follow. The only way anyone reads it is by being near enough to that spot to find it.

That changes what is worth writing. A confession tied to the bench you actually sat on, the office you actually left, or the corner where the conversation actually happened means something to the next person standing there. The same words posted to nowhere in particular do not.

What makes a confession worth finding

  • →Be specific to the place. The confessions people remember are the ones that could only have been left where they were left.
  • →Write it once, honestly. There is no audience to perform for and no profile to maintain. Anonymity is only worth having if you use it to say the true thing.
  • →Leave other people out of it. Your anonymity is not theirs. Do not name people, and do not include details that identify someone who did not choose to be here.
  • →Use the 500 characters. The limit is short on purpose. A confession is a single admission, not an essay.

Where your confession is actually pinned

The coordinates stored with your confession are not the coordinates you posted from. Every confession is offset by a random 10 to 50 metres before it is saved, so the pin lands somewhere on the block rather than on a specific address. Someone searching that area will find it; nobody can read the pin backwards to a doorway.

You do not have to share your location at all. Tapping the map sets the pin manually, which is the better option whenever the place you want to write about is not the place you are sitting in right now.

Questions about posting

Do I need an account to post a confession?
No. Confession Board requires no account, username, email address, or registration of any kind. You can open the page and post immediately. Because there is no account, a confession is tied to the place you pinned it to rather than to any identity.
How exact is the location attached to my confession?
Deliberately inexact. Before your confession is stored, its coordinates are offset by a random 10 to 50 metres. That is close enough that someone standing in the right neighbourhood will find it, and far enough that the pin does not point at a specific doorway, desk, or house.
Can I post to a place I am not standing in?
Yes. Granting location access is optional. You can tap anywhere on the map to set the pin instead, which lets you leave a confession at a place you have left, a place you are going, or a place you would rather not be tracked at right now.
How long is a confession, and can I categorise it?
A confession can be up to 500 characters. You can optionally tag it as Love, Regret, Secret, Hope, Fear, or Other, which helps people browsing a busy area find the kind of thing they came looking for.
What happens after I post?
Your confession is pinned to the map straight away and becomes discoverable to anyone who searches near that spot. Others can reply to it or vote on it anonymously. There is no inbox and no notification — the way you find out it resonated is by going back and looking.

Before you post

Real people read these. Confessions that harass, threaten, or identify someone get removed, and anyone can report one. Beyond that, the board works best when it is used for the thing it is for — saying something true that you have nowhere else to put.

New here? Read how Confession Board works, see what people are leaving behind, or check how your anonymity is protected.