About

Why it exists

A character you write with often ends up in more than one place. A sheet in a document. Pictures in a folder. A detail you agreed three months ago, buried in an old message. None of it is hard to keep. It is just spread out, and it is spread out in a way that makes you rebuild it every time somebody new wants to write with you.

re:plyr is the answer to that and nothing more. Put the pictures, the details and the setup in one place. Send one link when somebody asks. The writing still happens wherever you already do it.

There is a second reason, and it is the one that decided how this is built. The tools this replaces have a habit of closing. One of them went overnight in 2019 and took five years of people's characters with it, with no email and no way to get anything back. People who lost work that way ask the same question first: what happens to my stuff if you stop?

Who runs it

Alex Hunter, on my own, in England and Wales. The address is Suite 2, 68 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JT. You can write to me at privacy@replyr.co.uk.

One person cuts both ways, so here are both halves. There is no support team, so an answer comes when I read it rather than in minutes. And there is nobody to sell this to, no investor asking it to grow, and no board that decides one day that the way to make more money is to put a feed in it.

Why there is no feed

It is the question I am asked most. The places people are leaving are the ones with a crowd in them, and the software is rarely what they complain about. The problem is other people: being ranked, being pushed at, being talked about. Add a feed and you add a place to be harassed. Then you need rules, reports, blocks and somebody to read all of it. That is a different job, and those sites are already doing it badly.

So there is no feed, no comments and no followers. There is one page you can write about yourself, to find someone to write with, and nobody can reply to it here. There is no chat either. You already have somewhere you write, and it is better at chat than I would be. What you get here is a link you can paste into it.

The promises in the terms

These are not a mood. The first four are written into the terms and the last into the Privacy policy, where the exact wording lives and where it binds me.

• If it closes, you will get at least 30 days' notice by email wherever that is possible, and the downloads on your account page, as the terms describe them, keep working throughout. The terms say when it might not be.
• What you have uploaded is never locked to get money out of you. Running out of room stops you adding more. That is all it does.
• You can delete your account yourself, now. No ticket and no queue, and you can take a copy on the way out.
• Your work is not training data. It is never sold, published, licensed on, or used to train a model. There is no AI in this service at all.
• Your IP address is not recorded against what you upload. Nothing here stores it, so nothing here can look it up.

One bound on all of that, and it is fair to say it here. An account left untouched for 9 months may be closed, after an email warning you first. Signing in starts the clock again. Closing an account nobody uses is not the same as holding somebody's work to get paid.

What I am still working out

The roadmap is public, has no dates on it, and takes votes. If you want something that is not on it, ask. It reaches me directly.