No IP address is ever written down

An address exists only while somebody is connecting, and what the server records instead is a place: a one-way token under a key that server made for itself and keeps to itself. The same machine still reads as the same machine — which is all anything ever asked — and nobody, us included, can turn a place back into an address. It also makes the warning better: "somebody is joining as you, from somewhere you have never connected from" is a question a player can actually answer, where four numbers about their own house is not.

Added

5 September 2026

Finished

5 September 2026