FAQ

How Are We All? is an anonymous daily reflection site created to help people feel less alone in hard days by showing that other people carry difficult feelings too.

The site was created after seeing how easy it is for someone to feel alone in a hard day. It exists to remind people that struggle, stress, uncertainty, and overwhelm are shared human experiences.

Yes. A new question is published each day, and responses are tied to that date.

Yes. Responses are stored without personal profile data and shown only in aggregate summaries or same-day perspective features when available. Some responses may also receive a broad derived theme label so the site can power anonymous aggregate insight features, but that does not attach the response to your identity.

Yes, but only if you want to save a streak. Daily responses can still be submitted anonymously without signing in.

No. The streak is tied to a generated site username from your Google sign-in, but the response itself remains stored anonymously without that username attached to it.

The app is designed to encourage one response per day per browser to keep participation fair and reduce spam.

After you submit, the site may use simple automated rules to match anonymous responses to broad themes and show rounded same-day perspective estimates. The display is approximate, privacy-protective, and may group low-volume themes into Other or generalize part of the theme mix instead of exposing thin counts directly. The same same-day aggregate system also powers the public Live board.

The Live board is a public same-day view of anonymous aggregate patterns from current responses. It can show ranked themes, percentages, trend lines, and short recent pulse summaries. It is designed to show broad shared perspective, not exact counts about any one person, not a personal profile, and not a verbatim feed of individual answers.

Yes. After you answer for the day, the site can let you send today's question to someone else by email without revealing your identity to them. The invite does not include your answer, and invite emails include a link to stop future invite emails.

Yes. Invite emails include a link that stops future invite emails to that address. The site may also keep suppression records derived from the address so that opt-out requests continue to be honored.

reCAPTCHA helps protect both daily responses and summary discussion messages from bots and spam so real participation stays meaningful.

Yes. The For sites page includes a hosted iframe embed generator so you can place a random but relevant anonymous question card on your site. The question card, answer flow, reCAPTCHA, and storage stay hosted on How Are We All?.

Read the Community FAQ for answers about creating communities, custom questions, community streams, pulse summaries, and how community submissions relate to the main daily question.

Yes. The site uses necessary cookies and similar technologies for security, sign-in, spam prevention, one-response-per-day browser protection, and remembering your cookie choice. If advertising is enabled in the future, advertising cookies will be used only if you allow ads.

Google sign-in is optional and is used only for features that need abuse protection or saved progress, such as posting summary discussion messages or saving a streak. Reading summaries and discussions remains public, and daily responses can still be submitted anonymously.

No. Optional Google sign-in opens through Google and Azure App Service authentication. The site itself should not ask you to type your Google password into a site form.

No. The site gives your Google sign-in the same unique username each time you post, but that displayed username does not reveal your Google identity, name, or email to other users. No additional Google profile information is stored with the post.

Not at the moment. If advertising is enabled in the future, advertising cookies will remain optional and the site will still be usable without allowing ads.

Use [email protected] for general contact, [email protected] for help, [email protected] for feature requests, [email protected] for safety and trust concerns, and [email protected] for privacy questions.

Summaries are published at 1:00 AM UTC on the following day. Some dates may still show limited or unavailable summary data.

We intentionally do not segment summaries by region or other comparison metrics. Our approach is to treat everyone's thoughts across the world as equally important and keep the focus on shared human perspectives.

Not currently. After submission, responses are treated as final.

The system uses UTC for date handling to keep daily questions and summaries consistent.