What This Is
A button you press when work is being work. It records that someone pressed it, never who. The count is shared and resets every day.
The point is not the venting. The point is pressing it on a bad afternoon and finding out that eleven other people pressed it too.
What Is Stored
Three things, and nothing else:
- A room id, meaning which group you are in.
- A date.
- A number, and a scrambled value your browser makes up that changes every day.
To be explicit about what is not there: no names, no email addresses, no BU credentials, no IP addresses, and no times more precise than the day. Press times are left out on purpose, because "who else was online at 9:47pm" is identifying on a small team.
How That Stays Anonymous
Your browser invents a random id once and keeps it. It is never sent. What gets sent is a scrambled version of it mixed with today's date and your group phrase.
Mixing in the date means the value is different every day, so the counter cannot tell that Monday's third presser and Tuesday's fifth are the same person. Mixing in the phrase means the same browser cannot be matched across two different groups.
There is deliberately no sign in. The phrase identifies the group, which is a different thing from identifying you.
What This Does Not Protect Against
Said plainly, because a tool like this is worth nothing if it overclaims.
- Cloudflare sits in front of this as a content network, and sees request information the way any content network does. It is not kept here.
- Supabase hosts the database, so they hold the rows described above.
- Whoever runs this can read the database. That is Jonathan Foerschler. The rows do not identify anyone, which is the protection. It is not that access is impossible.
- Small counts say more than large ones, so nothing is shown until three people have pressed.
- Anyone with the phrase can inflate the number. The headline counts distinct people rather than presses, which makes mashing pointless, but nothing here stops someone from being dishonest.
What It Will Never Be Used For
Assessing any person or any team. There is no manager view, no export, and no per person data to build one from. Everyone with the phrase sees the same number.
This is not an HR instrument and not a complaint channel. Nobody is notified, nothing is escalated, and nothing here reaches anyone who could act on it. It is a counter.
Reading the Code
The page is three files with no build step, so what is published is what runs. You are welcome to check that this page is telling the truth.