Personals are back. No account, no profile, no swiping.
Craigslist killed its personals in 2018 and nothing decent replaced them. This is a plain, anonymous personals board — you post with an email address and nothing else, and people reply straight to it. Extra ads are $2 in Litecoin: no card on file, ever.
Save my city1 people waiting · 1 say they'll post. Founding posters are capped at 100 per city. A city opens at 25 ads so it never looks empty.
What we lost in 2018
For twenty-three years Craigslist ran the internet's biggest personals section. Not a dating app — a board. You picked your city, wrote a few lines, attached a photo, and waited. Replies came through an anonymised relay so nobody had your real address until you chose to give it.
Then Congress passed FOSTA/SESTA, which stripped websites of their protection from liability for what users posted. On 22 March 2018, rather than carry the risk, Craigslist deleted the entire section. Strictly Platonic, Missed Connections' raunchier cousin, Casual Encounters — all of it, overnight. What replaced it is ad-stuffed, scam-riddled, or a swipe app that answers a different question.
What people still say about it
“I could post a W4M and within an hour have 300+ options to choose from.”
“I met my husband in Strictly Platonic almost 17 years ago! Still going strong.”
“My last Craigslist hookup: I got nothing but time wasters on Grindr. I put an ad on Craigslist, got multiple quality responses and had a compatible match over within the hour.”
“I met a woman for a casual encounter, and as I was leaving she slipped something into my hand that I thought was a note. When I read it at home, it was a $100 bill.”
“You never knew what you were going to get, but each encounter was exciting and unique. Smartphone apps gained convenience but lost the identity.”
“The advantage was that curious guys didn't have to commit to downloading a potentially revealing app.”
Why the replacements annoy people
The big successor board is full of the same two complaints, over and over, in its own reviews: bots, and a wall in front of the basics.
“It's mostly spam and scammers that the platform does nothing to block.”
“I just wish you didn't have to pay in order to use the full site.”
“How am I supposed to know who I'm talking to?”
What we do about it
- Post with an email and nothing else. No account, no password, no profile. The link we email you is how you edit, bump or delete your ad. Reply to others the same way.
- Dead ads get killed. Every ad gets a one-tap “still available?” at 48 hours and again at a week. Ignore both and it expires. Nothing is more corrosive than a board full of ghosts.
- Verification, but optional. A selfie check earns a badge and ranks you higher. Nobody is forced through it, and your face never goes public.
- Scam patterns auto-flagged. Ads that are only a Telegram link, an age-check redirect or a gift-card opener get marked so you can see them coming.
- Free to read, free to reply, first ad free forever. No wall in front of the board.
Why it costs $2 — in Litecoin
The price isn't there to make a living. It's the anti-spam mechanism, and the currency is there because a card is the least anonymous thing about every other site.
No card, no name on file
Every other board wants a debit or credit card. That's a name, a billing address and a chargeback trail kept by a company that decided you were adult enough to allow. Litecoin is a payment and nothing else — we never learn your name, and no processor can reject you or freeze the account.
$2 is what makes farms expensive
Free boards rot because posting costs a bot nothing. One or two dollars a go means a thousand junk ads is real money. It's the cheapest spam filter that also doesn't tax you when you're just reading.
The first ad is still free
Nobody is turned away at the door. You only ever pay for a second ad, and $10 buys six of them — so the price bites on volume, not on trying it.
What this is not
Not a dating app. No swiping, no “it's a match”, no algorithm. No profile to maintain. Not city-locked either — but a city only goes public once it has 25 ads, so you never land on a blank page. If yours isn't open, joining the list is what opens it.
Save your spot
What it costs
Free — first ad
Always free. Every city, forever.
Founding poster — $10 once
First 100 per city only. Unlimited posting, permanent badge, your name on the city's founders page. Never charged again.
After that — $2 an ad
Payable in Litecoin, no card on file. $10 buys six, $30 buys twenty. Paid ads skip review and go live instantly. No refunds. Why this is what keeps it clean.
Cities filling up
- Toronto CA 1 waiting
- Amsterdam NL 0 waiting
- Berlin DE 0 waiting
- Chicago US 0 waiting
- London GB 0 waiting
- Los Angeles US 0 waiting
- Manchester GB 0 waiting
- Melbourne AU 0 waiting
- Montreal CA 0 waiting
- New York US 0 waiting
- Oshawa CA 0 waiting
- Ottawa CA 0 waiting
- Sydney AU 0 waiting
- Vancouver CA 0 waiting
- Whitby CA 0 waiting
Already open? Browse the boards.
Questions
Do I need an account?
No. An email address, confirmed by a link we send you. That's the whole signup, and it happens when you post.
Is my email shown on my ad?
Never. Replies reach you through us and only see the relay. You hand over your real address when you choose to.
What does it cost?
Reading and replying are free. Your first ad is free, forever. After that $2 an ad or $2 a boost, in Litecoin. Founding posters pay $10 once and never again.
Why Litecoin and not a card?
Card processors treat adult sites badly and charge for it. Crypto means no rejected payments, no chargebacks, and no fee on a $2 sale.
Can I advertise services, or just myself?
Both. Cash-for-time ads are allowed — if you quote a rate, declare it in the ad so the reader knows which they're getting.
Is there an app?
No, and deliberately. It works in a browser on any phone, and skipping the app stores means no one can decide we're too explicit and remove us.
How do you stop bots?
Mostly the price. The first ad from an address is free, but everything after it costs $2, so a farm has to spend real money to flood a board. On top of that: one live ad per address per city per day, a honeypot, and pattern flags on the classic scam shapes — Telegram-only ads, fake age-check redirects, gift-card openers.
What happened to the old ads?
Nothing. Craigslist deleted the section on 22 March 2018 and never brought it back. This is a new board with the same shape.
What do you do with my email?
Send your launch notice and your ad's manage link. No newsletter unless you ask, no selling it.