the post about the other posts
How this feed works, and what it refuses to publish
Every post here has the same shape. That is deliberate, and so is everything the site leaves out.
the three wethenorth market addresses
hn2paw7zfvndw3dovycegeqmvvnf4pl67b3g2p7pohjlzavloosh73id.onionhn2paw7zrgujyhnt6mgxlt2q6uhgbke4itpqitxhyfbumq3wtnckbuyd.onionhn2paw7zadwkcra3qzv5e4q547i7e5lvxm62cfxqftuqdu7moiu2ceyd.onionprinted the way they were handed over. no labels, no numbering, nothing here says which one to try first. this feed never opens them, so it has no status light, no percentage and no date of checking to give you.
the shape of a post
A heading that is a plain sentence. An opening line that could stand on its own. The three addresses. Four to six short sections. A few replies. A line saying what the post is not. Three links to nearby posts.
Same order, every time. Once you have read two posts you know where everything is, and you can skip straight to the part you came for.
why the addresses are on every page
Because somebody arriving on a post about disputes may be there because they cannot get in at all. Putting the addresses only on a front page assumes people arrive at the front page, and they do not.
They sit inside the post rather than in a banner above it, because they are part of what the post is offering rather than an advertisement wrapped round it.
why there are no authors
Because there is nobody to name. A social product shape comes with slots for a face, a handle, a follower count and a job title, and filling those in here would mean inventing four things.
So the feed posts as itself. The identity card in the sidebar says what the feed is and nothing about a person, because there is no person to describe.
The same reasoning removes reaction counts, comment counts and read counts. Numbers like those are either measured or invented, and nothing here measures them.
why there are no dates
A date on a post is a claim about when it was written and, implicitly, when it was last checked. This site cannot honestly make that claim about every page, so it makes it about none of them.
You will find no calendar dates anywhere in the copy. Where timing matters, posts say things like a long time ago or several days, which stays true.
why there is no status light
Because this feed never opens the addresses it publishes. A green dot would be a claim about something the site has no information about.
That argument is set out at length in no status light, including why checking properly would not fix the deeper problem.
the full list of what is missing
No accounts, no sign in, no form, no comment box, no newsletter and no cookie, because there is nothing here that needs any of them.
No trackers, no analytics and no requests to anything outside this site. The fonts and the icon are served from here.
No advertising, no sponsorship, no affiliate arrangement and no paid placement. Nothing on this site was bought.
No verdicts, no ratings, no vendor reviews and no recommendations about any market. Other sites do that. This one does not.
what it does claim
That the three addresses are what it was handed, printed unchanged and in the order they arrived. That is the only factual claim on the site, and it is a claim about this site rather than about the market.
Everything else here is description and reasoning, which you are free to disagree with.
replies
a reader askedWhy does it look like a social network if it is not one?
the answerBecause the shape suits the content. A feed of short single subject posts is genuinely what this is. What it does not borrow is the parts that would require inventing people.
a reader askedCan I contact whoever writes this?
the answerThere is no contact form, no address and no inbox anywhere on the site. That is a limitation and it is stated rather than hidden behind a form that goes nowhere.
a reader askedDo the reply blocks come from real readers?
the answerNo, and the site does not claim they do. They are the questions the post would obviously raise, written out with answers, and no username or person is attached to any of them.
what this post is not Not a statement about anybody else's site. It describes the choices made here and the reasons for them, and it names no one.