How Still Miss You works

How a letter travels

A letter describes a shared time and place, called a coordinate: a school and year, a building on a street, a train, an online forum. Its public part holds only clues. The full name, the birth year and the answers to its secret questions are encrypted and never shown.

Every time someone leaves their life trajectory or lights a lamp, all open letters are matched again, so a letter never sinks. Friends can pass it on with a personal link; we count how far it travels, and when it leads to a reunion, everyone on the way is told.

Whoever says “it's me” must answer the writer's secret questions. The writer decides. Only then does a private channel open, where you can agree on any way to stay in touch.

Safety

• We never hand anyone over.No one can get someone's details through us. Contact happens only when both people choose it.
• Saying no is final.If someone says “please don't disturb me”, they stop hearing from that writer, and the writer isn't told. Whether a letter ends is the writer's call.
• Do-not-find protection.Anyone can ask never to be matched. We hold any letter that seems to be looking for them, and we never confirm they exist.
• No children.Users must be adults, and we don't publish letters looking for anyone who is under 18 today. If a child is missing, contact the police.
• No public comments.There's nowhere to post someone else's name, address or phone number.
• Warnings, not surveillance.In channels we warn you about messages that look like scams (money, investments, codes, links). Messages are deleted 90 days after a reunion.

What this is not for

Not for finding missing children or missing persons (please contact the police), collecting debts, tracking anyone, reaching celebrities, or dating.

A nonprofit project

Still Miss You is a nonprofit. There are no ads, no paid boosts and no paid searches, and your data is never sold.