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Or just tell your crush, without sharing URLs with everyone

Easy as an adult. But as a kid I feel like we jumped through soooo many hoops to de-risk telling someone we had a crush on them.

I remember those reallllly early games like MASH or even early "compatibility" apps. Very coy.

Yes, I can see how -- as a kid -- sharing an URL of your hashed crush with the world is not going to be awkward at all.

Putting links in your tiktok/whatever profile doesn't seem like very unusual nowadays...

Awkward is the name of the game.

There's nothing wrong with only wanting to reveal a crush if it's somewhat returned. If it isn't, you're just putting them in an uncomfortable position for no good reason.

And this hash url absolutely doesn't solve this problem

I feel like this could be a good implementation.

"Find out if your crush fancies you, just choose them from your contacts:"

...

"Message 'hey there, I like you' sent"

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