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What changed and why. WLP chat has no social accounts yet, so updates land here first.
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Privacy page updated, accessibility statement published
The privacy page now names Vercel as the company that hosts this site, and says that Vercel and Resend, which delivers the pilot and support forms, are based in the United States, so form messages and request logs may be processed there. It also adds your right to ask us to restrict how we use your data.
One summary card on that page said WLP chat never asks for your phone number or email. That is true of the app, and the card now says so: the forms on this site do ask for an email address, because we need one to reply.
There is a new accessibility statement: what the site aims for, how it is tested, where it falls short, and how to tell us about a barrier. News also has a feed now, so you can follow updates in a feed reader without an account.
Pilot requests are open
Organisers of adult associations, alumni networks and clubs with 50 to 500 members can now ask for a room in the first live pilot. It runs in 3 rooms. The request is three questions, and the study team replies within two working days.
Before any pilot room goes live, the app moves from the local research build to a reviewed encrypted messaging layer. Until then the build stays what it says it is: a local demo, not audited end-to-end encryption.
We also published a guide for organisers who want to move a group chat off WhatsApp, with or without us.
The first research build is ready
Build 0.1.0 of WLP chat runs on a phone or in a browser and talks to nothing. It exists to answer one question: can an organiser and the adults they invite finish the Passport, identity, safety and sponsor flows, and then explain who can see what?
You can join a room from a Passport link, read the organiser’s announcement, reply, record a voice note, attach a file up to 10 MB, block someone, report a message with the evidence you choose, and leave. Organisers can create a room, issue Passports, watch the invitation chain, revoke a leaked link and work a moderation queue.
The build admits what it simulates: the call lobby, the network, push, multi-device approval, sponsor counts and prices. It has no encryption, and every security screen says so.
Ten decisions before a line of code
Before the first build we wrote down ten locked decisions. Two of them shape everything else: rooms are for adults in established groups of 50 to 500, and the research build makes no security claim.
The rest set what stays out. No direct messages between members, no public channels or directory, no contact upload, no wallet, no live calls until each passes its own review. Every one is written down with the reason, so nobody re-argues it in a hurry.