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Make it look like you, not us.
Colours, edges, type, spacing, how loud your links are: every bit of it is yours to change, whenever and as often as you like. We keep it looking sharp at any combination, and your design travels with your page, on the chain, not in our stylesheet.
Think of it as a gamertag for the rest of the internet. There is no opntr.ee account to sign up for, because the name is not one we lend you: it already works on sites we have nothing to do with, and your posts, your reputation and whatever you take up next all sit under the same one. Your links are simply the first thing you have pointed it at.
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Your page outlives us.
That is not a promise, it is where it is kept. Your page is saved under your own name rather than in an account of ours, so there is nothing of yours for us to edit, lose or hold hostage.
Your own account
Free
Free, and not a trial of anything
You already have a Hive account, or you are happy to make one yourself.
Unlimited links, published under your own name
Your name, bio and picture come along from your Hive profile
The design system: colours, edges, voice, air, loudness
Not ours to edit, delete or lock you out of
The essentials, nothing more. You look after your own keys, and you sign with Keychain.
Yes, today: with a Hive account, publishing costs nothing. Unlimited links, every design option, no trial and no card. What is permanent is not the price, it is the page: it is published under your own account, so it stays yours whatever we charge for later. There will be paid additions in time, and they will be additions.
As many as you want. Put them in any order, and give any link a short note underneath so people know what they are clicking.
As often as you like. Edit your links, reorder them, restyle the whole page and publish again; the new version replaces the old one on the spot.
Completely. Colours, edges, type, spacing and how loud the links are, all yours to change whenever you want. Your design belongs to your page, not to our stylesheet, so it goes wherever your page goes.
Anywhere a link fits: your bio on any platform, an email signature, a QR code on a poster. Your address is opntr.ee/ followed by your name, short enough to say out loud.
No. Your page belongs to your own account, not to our database, so we could not take it down if we wanted to. It is one signed operation on a public chain, and anybody running a reader can find it whatever happens to this site.
On the surface, barely: links on a page at a short address. The difference is who owns the page. Yours is not a row in our database, so we cannot edit it, lose it or take it down, and readers can check that your page really is yours.
No, though the short version is worth a minute. Hive is a public network that anybody can read from and no company owns. Your name and your page are kept there instead of in a database of ours, and that is the whole reason we cannot edit your page, delete it, or shut you out of it. Using it is no more than signing in and publishing. It is the part nobody thinks about until a company like ours goes away, which is the day it turns out to have been the important part.
It means that website named the account back. Anyone can type any address into a profile, so an address on its own claims nothing. The tick appears only when the domain itself publishes a record naming the account, which only whoever runs that domain can add, and it is the reader’s own browser that checks it rather than us. So it says the page and the website are run by the same people, and nothing at all about who those people are. That is also why it sits against the domain and never against the person: a tick beside somebody’s name asks you to trust something without saying what, and a domain you can read for yourself and judge.
Two things, both yours to do. Put your website in your Hive profile, then add one DNS record at that domain: a TXT record named _openattribute.yourdomain.com, reading hive=yourname. That is all of it. It appears the next time somebody opens your page, and it goes when you remove the record.
Names are first come, first served, and a name nobody has registered is the only kind anybody can take. What a name cannot do, here or anywhere, is prove who is behind it: somebody can register one that looks like yours. That is what the website line is for. A page claiming to be a company shows that company’s domain vouching for the account only if the company itself wrote that record, and nobody outside it can. Two other things on a page are worth more than a name as well, and neither can be bought: how long the account has existed, and the reputation other accounts have voted onto it.