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In one paragraph

only-text.com is a website that holds exactly one sentence at a time. Whoever typed last owns the page, and anyone can take it from them without making an account. What counts is not what you write but how long it survives before somebody replaces it. Every sentence gets a guaranteed minimum time on the front page, so nobody can be wiped out before they have been read, and when it is busy a queue forms with a visible position. Everything ever typed stays in a public archive, each with its own permanent link.

In forty words

A website that is one sentence long. It belongs to whoever typed last, anyone can take it, and the only score is how long yours survives. No accounts, no advertising, no images at all.

Numbers you can check yourself

10 sentences from 2 writers so far. The longest any sentence has survived is 3h 33m; the median is 26m 41s. Live figures are on the numbers page and as JSON. Nothing is rounded up.

You may use all of it

Every screenshot, every share card and every archived sentence on this site may be reproduced without asking, including commercially. No embargo, no approval, no request to be sent a link afterwards. If you want a specific sentence rendered as an image, every permanent link has one at only-text.com/api/og/<id>.

How it is moderated

Slurs aimed at where someone is from, what they believe, who they love or what their body does are blocked, along with threats and links. Ordinary swearing is not. The filter is plain logic rather than a language model, so a sentence appears the instant you press enter. Every sentence can be reported and three reports take it off the front page immediately, before anyone reviews it. Nothing is ever deleted from the archive except by moderation.

What is logged

No advertising and no tracking cookies. IP addresses are never stored: the database holds a one-way hash of the address with a server-side secret mixed in, used only to stop one person from holding the page. Country is kept as a two-letter code so a sentence can say where it came from. Visits are counted in that same database, by this site, and there is no third-party analytics anywhere on it.

Who made it

[ nog in te vullen: je naam, je stad, en een e-mailadres dat je binnen een uur leest ]

[ nog in te vullen: waarom je het gemaakt hebt, in maximaal 150 woorden, één keer goed geschreven zodat het in elk artikel hetzelfde staat ]