Questions people actually ask

Yes. Signing a day and lighting candles are free in Season 0 and stay free. Dates themselves go on sale later in the season; that never touches anything a free signer made.

No, and you never will. When you sign, you get a private link on the spot. That link is how you edit or remove your signature — keep it, because there is no password anywhere in this product and no other way back in.

The order you signed that particular day. If you are the 841st person to sign June 12, you are #841 on June 12, permanently, even if you later edit or remove your message.

Every date page has one champion: the entry with the most candles in the last 7 days. It is a rolling window, not an all-time total, so a day can change hands any week and nobody holds anything by having arrived first. Ties go to whoever signed earlier. If nobody on a date has a candle in the window, that date has no champion and we say so — we never show an invented one.

No, and there is no version of this where it can. Candles are free, capped at five per visitor per day, and cannot be bought, sold, gifted, or topped up — there is no paid candle anywhere in this product. A deed is a separate, clearly labelled paid box at the top of a page: it buys no candles, cannot take the crown, and moves nobody in the guestbook. The two systems share a page and nothing else.

Yes. Every entry can carry one optional link — https only, with the query string stripped so it cannot carry an affiliate or tracking tag. A person reads every link before it becomes clickable, links are marked nofollow, and the number of clicks each one actually received is shown on the page next to it. Real clicks or an honest zero; we do not make that number up.

One owner per date. A deed puts a name, a short message, an optional photo and one link at the top of a date page, and puts that name on the homepage on the actual day. Deeds open at $10; taking a date over from its current owner costs $5 more than they paid, and only $5 more.

Yes — a gift deed is bought in someone else's name and comes with a reveal card you can send them. Birthdays come back every year, which is the entire point.

Because a person is reading it. Clean, text-only signatures publish immediately; anything containing a link, a phone number, or wording the filter cannot score waits for a human. Every deed is read by a human before it appears, without exception.

A number of dates on this calendar are remembered for something terrible. Those pages stay open for signing and candles, but ownership of them is either disabled entirely or reviewed by hand before anything appears. That list is maintained, and it is not up for debate.

We commit to hosting what you sign for ten years. Nobody honest can promise 'forever', and we will not pretend otherwise while money is involved. If this ever shuts down, everything on it gets published as a downloadable archive first.

Offensive deeds are removed without a refund, and the ownership ledger of every date stays public either way. All sales are final.

Today's, rolling over at midnight UTC. Every page shows a countdown in your local time so you know exactly when that happens where you are.