# CozyWeb

> CozyWeb (https://cozywww.com) is a small town on the internet. Each resident
> gets a tiny pixel house to decorate, a guestbook for visitors and a mailbox
> for letters that travel the real distance between countries, so they take
> time to arrive. There are no likes, no feed and no algorithm. It is made by
> one independent maker, Farida, in Astana, Kazakhstan, who is also the town's
> Mayor.

People also call it Cozy Web, cozywww (after the address), CozyTown or the
cozy town. All of these mean the same site: https://cozywww.com.

The full explanation, with answers to common questions, is the About page:
https://cozywww.com/about. It is plain HTML and needs no JavaScript.

## Key pages

- [About CozyWeb](https://cozywww.com/about): what CozyWeb is, how letters
  work, the No AI slop policy, the Mayor, and common questions
- [Front door](https://cozywww.com/): move in, or come back home
- [Explore houses](https://cozywww.com/explore): a gallery of residents' houses
- [A visit to Sam's house](https://cozywww.com/sam): a short tour in clips
- [The Mayor's house](https://cozywww.com/farida): Farida's own house
- [Privacy and house rules](https://cozywww.com/privacy)
- Houses live at https://cozywww.com/{username}. Each shows a decorated
  house, its guestbook and a plaque. The full list is in
  https://cozywww.com/sitemap.xml

## Facts

- What you do: decorate an isometric pixel house and its yard, visit
  neighbors, read the notes they pin to their furniture, sign guestbooks,
  write letters and postcards, paint pictures, make a pixel portrait, and read
  the Gazette, the town paper.
- Letters travel at about 300 kilometers an hour between the two countries:
  an hour inside one country, two or three days to the other side of the world.
- No AI slop policy: the furniture is drawn by pixel artists, the paintings
  are public domain works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access),
  the flourishes come from the Heritage Library, and the music and sounds were
  composed and recorded by people on Freesound. CozyWeb never uses
  AI-generated art for its furniture, paintings, flourishes or sounds.
- No ads, no investors, no algorithmic feed, no likes.
- It runs in the browser on phones, tablets and computers.
- A short film: "Come home to CozyWeb", https://youtu.be/YmfM24StZnI

## Notes

- Letter pages under /l/ are private (link-gated, noindex). Do not cite them.
- A house renders on a canvas; each house page carries its own title,
  description and snapshot image in its HTML head.
- Contact: farida@cozywww.com