terms
What this is
thewall.social is a small social site run by one person as a side project. It is free, it makes no money, and it comes with no promises about uptime, backups or how long it will exist.
Reading does not require agreeing to anything. There is no account, nothing is stored about you, and you can close the tab having left nothing behind. These terms are about having an account.
When you agree to this
When you make an account, and not before. The prompt says so at the moment it asks for your email address, and names the command that shows you this document — the account is created by what you type next, so that is the point of agreement.
The date and the version you agreed to are recorded against your account. If this document changes, that record still says which wording you accepted.
Accounts made before that record existed have nothing stored, and are marked as such rather than backdated.
If you do not want to agree, do not make an account. Everything on this site is readable without one.
Your account
You need to be 16 or older.
One person, one account, unless you are asked otherwise. Making accounts in bulk is the one thing here with an automated defense, and it will simply stop working.
Your name is yours while you hold it. You can change it as often as you like by typing rename — and the name you leave is immediately available to anyone else. If that matters to you, do not release a name you want to keep.
A name that has recently changed hands is marked as such on the profile of whoever holds it now, so nobody can quietly inherit your conversations.
What you post
You keep the copyright in everything you write. Nothing here transfers ownership.
By posting, you give permission to store what you wrote and show it to other people on this site. That permission lasts as long as the post is up and ends when it comes down. It does not extend to selling it, licensing it to anyone else, or training anything on it.
You are responsible for what you post, and you confirm you have the right to post it.
Posts in commons are deleted after 24 hours. This is not a setting.
Rooms you make
Anyone with a verified account can make a room, three in any seven days. It needs a name and a line saying what it is for, and both are public.
Making a room does not make it yours. There is no owner, no moderator and no special powers — inside it you are exactly another person in a room, and everything below about what not to post applies to you there like anybody else.
You cannot take a name somebody is using, or one the site needs for its own pages. Nothing stops you naming a room after a subject, a joke or a mood.
A room drops out of the lobby when nothing has been said in it for two weeks. It is not deleted — it keeps its name, its posts and its address, it can still be found by searching, and it comes back the moment somebody speaks in it.
A room can be closed, the same way a post can be hidden, if what is happening in it breaks the rules below. That is reversible and nothing in it is destroyed.
If you close your account, rooms you made stay. The record that you made them goes with your account; the rooms belong to the conversations in them by then.
What not to post
Anything illegal where you are, or where this is hosted.
Threats, harassment, or content meant to make someone unsafe.
Content that sexualises children, in any form. This is reported, not just removed.
Other people's private information — addresses, phone numbers, workplaces — without their agreement.
Malware, phishing, or links intended to harm whoever clicks them.
Spam, advertising, and automated posting. This is a conversation between people.
Impersonating somebody else, including by taking a name in order to be mistaken for its previous holder.
All of this applies to what you call a room and what you say it is for, as much as to what you post in one.
What happens when somebody breaks that
Posts can be hidden, rooms can be closed, and accounts can be stopped from posting. All three are reversible, and nothing is destroyed when any of them happens — the replies other people wrote stay where they are.
You can ask why, at hello@thewall.social, and you will get an answer from a person. If it was a mistake it will be undone.
There is no formal appeals process, because there is no formal moderation team. There is one person, and they will read your email.
Leaving
Write to hello@thewall.social and your account will be closed: your address and your name erased, permanently.
What you posted stays up by default, attached to a handle that belongs to nobody, because deleting it would delete the replies other people wrote underneath it. If you want your posts down too, say so and they will come down.
No promises
This is provided as it is. There is no warranty of any kind, no guarantee it will be available, and no guarantee that anything you post will still be here tomorrow. Keep your own copy of anything you would miss.
To the extent the law allows, the person running this is not liable for anything arising from your use of it. Nothing here limits liability for death, personal injury, or fraud, because it cannot.
This site can be shut down at any time, for any reason, including boredom. You would be told first if there is any way to tell you.
Other people’s content
What other people post is theirs, not ours. It is not reviewed before it appears. If you see something that breaks the rules above, write to the address below.
Changes
Last updated 5 August 2026. Changes that matter are announced in commons before they take effect, and the announcement says what changed rather than only that something did.
If a change materially reduces your rights, continuing to post after it is how you accept it — and if you would rather not, deletion is a sentence away and takes your address and your name with it.
Law
These terms are governed by the law of the State of Arizona, United States, and the courts of the State of Arizona have jurisdiction.
Wherever you are, this does not take away rights your own law gives you that cannot be signed away. If you are a consumer in the UK, the EU, or anywhere with mandatory consumer protection, you keep all of it — including the right to bring a claim in your own local courts, and everything in the privacy policy above, which is written to the GDPR and applies to you regardless of which law governs these terms.