About

We are not a secret organisation, our friends know that we are involved in this portal, yet we decided not to disclose our identities here. We might be a group of professors, we might be a department of Russian intelligence agency, we might be a pair of bored American teenagers. This should not make any difference. On this portal, we will never encourage you to trust in our authority. We would like to give you food for thought and possibly at the same time learn your point of view thanks to your comments.

Our mission is to deepen the understanding of problems, especially those which are highly opinionated and for this reason often avoided in discussion and thus neglected.

We promise not to twist our opinions under the external pressure. This is why we do not show ads, use product placement, or enter into any paid contracts. This portal is a not-for-profit project.

The only piece of data that we collect is your IP address, which is used to help us fight with spam and to inform us which part of the world the readers are coming from. This piece of information is only kept for a short time (no longer than 3 months) after which it is deleted. We do not track you or sell your data. We do not use cookies.

How to Help Us

Here are a few ideas:

1. We encourage you to further exploration, to thinking and discussing the topics that interest you.

2. We will be grateful if you share these thoughts also with us via comments.

3. We encourage you to share a link to this website with your friends.

Technical Information

Banner background was made from NASA's pictures taken during space missions.

Picture editing was done with Inkscape.

Skeleton of the website is done in React (Create React App).

Visual side largely uses Bootstrap components.

Timeline is made with the Vertical Timeline Component For React library.

Server foundation is Flask (Python) on WSGI server Gunicorn, na HTTP server Nginx. Website is fully transformed into static content, while the WSGI server is only used for the interactive parts: comments, subscription, etc.

RSS feed is generated by FeedGenerator library.

Database is (maybe temporarily?) SQLite.

Infrastructure is provided by AWS (EC2 and Route 53).

Operating system of the production server is Linux Ubuntu.

We are wholeheartedly grateful to the authors of all of the above, especially that these tools (except AWS) are free, publicly available, and on friendly licences.