About
There is more good going on than anyone can see.
Kindness is usually quiet. It happens between two people, it is not written down anywhere, and by the end of the week nobody remembers it happened. RippleCore is a place to put it — and then to see what it starts.
Inspired
The one action that links a moment to the moment it set off. Everything else on this site follows from it.
Private by default
Where something happened is chosen per act, and coarsened before it is stored.
No comment box
No replies and no direct messages either — there is nowhere here to say something cruel.
Your score is yours
The ripple count is drawn on your own screen and nobody else sees a number to compare you by.
How it works in one line
How one good moment becomes a chain.
The problem
Good things happen, and nothing records them.
Somebody helped. Somebody noticed. Nobody wrote it down — so the only thing a programme can report later is what it did, never what it started.
The mechanic
“I was inspired” links one moment to the next.
Anybody who reads your moment can log one of their own, pointing back at the one that set them off. That single link is the whole idea, and it is the only action here allowed to feel like an event.
The chain
A chain, not a raw count.
A moment keeps the chain of moments it inspired, so the story leads and the number supports it. That is what a Ripple Count is, and it is the number the homepage draws.
How it works goes through each piece in detail — the two kinds of act, the score, and the four map levels.
Why it is built this way.
Warm and low-pressure
Writing down something good should not feel like performing it. There is no reply to compose, no audience score to watch, and nothing counting the days you did not join in.
Safety as a felt feature
Coarsening happens when the act is written, not when it is read, so the precise point of a town-level act was never kept for a search, an export or a backup to find.
No engagement-maximising patterns
No algorithm picks what you see, no ad network profiles you, and the feed is your Circles, newest first. A number on this site has to mean something measurable.
There is one more audience — universities, schools, charities, clubs and the people who run a Circle — and they get their own page rather than half of this one: for institutions, where the reporting a Circle's officers use is described.
Start with one thing you noticed today.
It takes a minute to write down, and then you can watch what happens next.