Rules
freelist.lol is a public list of sites, handles and apps. There are no ads, no API keys and nothing to pay. Rank is when you submitted it, and nothing else.
How ranking works
- Whoever listed most recently is #1. There is no bid, no vote and no score, so there is nothing to game except being last through the door.
- You hold #1 until the next person lists something. Then you are #2, and so on down. Nobody is removed for slipping.
- Past the tenth listing the board becomes the pile. A listing in the pile is still listed and still a link; it just is not on the list any more.
- Submit the same link again to send it back to the top. A listing can only do that once every 6 hours, which is what stops one person holding #1 all day.
- Everyone gets 6 submissions an hour and 20 a day, with 45 seconds between them.
What you can list
- A website, a product, an @handle, or an app on any of the stores. A bare @name is read as X. For anywhere else, use the profile link.
- One listing per address. http://www.thing.com/ and https://thing.com are the same listing, and tracking parameters utm_*, ref, fbclid and the rest are stripped before anything is stored.
- Store and repository links are kept whole, so two apps on the same store are two listings.
- Link shorteners are followed. What gets listed is where the link ends up, not the shortener.
- No porn, no NSFW platforms, no adult content.
- No chat or invite links: Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Signal, Messenger. This is a list of things you made, not of rooms to join.
- No malware, phishing, or anything pretending to be somebody else.
What the site does with your link
- It fetches the page once and reads its Open Graph tags: the title, the description, the image and the icon. Nothing is typed by hand, so what shows up is what your page says about itself. If it looks wrong, fix the tags and submit it again.
- The picture and the icon are copied onto this server and re-encoded. Nothing is hotlinked, so nobody reading the list is announced to a hundred other servers.
- Clicks are counted once per person per day, and shown on the listing.
- Addresses are stored as a one-way hash, only to count submissions against the limits above. No cookies are set and no analytics are loaded.
Taking something down
Anything that breaks the list above gets removed without notice. If something of yours is here and you would rather it were not, or something is here that should not be, say so and it goes.