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http://valleyanon.com/ -- A simple anonymous blogging platform for free speech online. I built it so that people can let their stories be known without fear.

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For the login you ask for an email address. There are plenty of services providing disposable email addresses but I wonder if you need to ask for an email at all. Perhaps an 'Alias' field would be more in keeping with the ethos of the site.

The email field will take any string. Only enter your email if you want access to alerts, updates, and recovery tools -- otherwise you can just use some random handle.

Nice project. Noted that my Ghostery script is blocking both facebook connect and Google Analytics. Even if TOR is used these services are able to easily fingerprint the browser and compare to their own databases (https://panopticlick.eff.org/).

It would be nice if these where opt-in.

Your like/tweet counter is serving as negative social proof. Get rid of the counter until you build up some likes.

done and thanks.

You could have left the buttons there, just without the counter.

Facebook doesn't let you do this easily, though.

http://valleyanon.com/p/2 oh dear...

a(n) (un)fortunate side effect of anonymity online. :)

I don't see a hidden service anywhere..

Good call. I'll look into supporting this next. In the meanwhile I just assumed people could connect through a Tor exit node to post.

when you assume. you make mistakes

clickable: http://valleyanon.com/

this is not anonymous in any way. read: google analytics , ect

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