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Like a bulletin board in a cafe, or at the corner store, or like on the light post outside, where people could stick fliers about their show, or how they're looking for their lost cat or are offering violin lessons - whatever it was, they stuck it up there for everyone to notice. That's the BB part. I always wanted to be able to peel away and browse the pasted, stapled layers of crusty paper, and look at past events too, save them, print them, share them- So here it is. That's the KB part.

BBKB = Bulletin Board Knowledge Base!

BBKBs can be local only (static to a particular device) or they can be shared across many devices by groups of one or many users.

BBKB has two (2) flavors: BBKB-local or BBKB-groups

Both are perfect for pasting screen shots or memes or text or links or embeds or uploading images that you want to save and maybe forget about later, but might want to see again later, because reasons, or whatever. Share with yourself or your group or the world. That's one thing it does. Post messages to multiple places, for indefinite display or set rotation- BBKB is open to lots of possibility.

I wanted to build it ever since one night in ~2000ish, before I could even code, while stumbling down the street, marveling at a half-inch thick mess of event fliers stapled to a utility pole, there on the curb as we passed by. I only just started recently putting it together during the pandemic because i wanted such a tool. But also because it seemed time, tech wise. It's always in progress. I hope you like it. I use it everyday, either online or offline, on my phone, tablet, and PC. Especially PC. But yes, phone, too, when I see something on the road I want to investigate at my desk later on. My bbkbs are ever evolving table tops of activity.

This page, https://bbkb.app/me, in particular, is intended to work 100% client side- locally- so once you open it up it should just work, internet or no. The bigger screen the better but it can also be used on tablets, phones and smaller devices. It's meant to be lightweight- a lot of times you won't require a refresh. But yeah, if you do, connect to the internet first. There may be an update or something anyways.

The cards created here are never accessed by any inside or outside server. No info, no stats, no ai... nothing.

BBKB-local (this page) uses your browser's localStorage (indexDB) to store what you post in your cards. It stays there in your localStorage, on the device you're using, until it's deleted or cleared. Go offline and see for yourself. Only if you use the BBKB network version does the server store the stuff you post- but you can always decide at any time what stays local, what gets distributed, and what gets deleted.

It's your data. I'm only interested in making it highly available, in or out- it's what I do.

When you trash a card, you delete it There's no recover. It doesn't first ask if you're sure.
When you make a card it's stored on your device. When you delete a card, it's removed from your device.
And delete means delete here. It's gone.
I don't know - maybe unless you restore your data from your own previous backup or something perhaps then-
That said, measure well what data you handle when using BBKB. Browsers can be touchy. I've seen upgrades wipe the localStorage. But then I've seen localStorage last for years. BBKB is built using Firefox and it's been an amazing experience. BBKB also works in Chrome and Safari. Android. Ipad. ... All to some level of "well, it's close enough for now-" (the idea being it's about the same no matter what) - for additional reliability for your data use the online version. A backup and some copy functions are coming

As far as your privacy, BBKB-local doesn't count visitors, doesn't share anything and in fact strives to know as little to nothing about you as possible. Ideally this makes it difficult for the bots as well.
Your IP address might be temporarily recorded somewhere, as a visit, in some default logs but BBKB-local (this page) doesn't rely on BBKB cookies. If you find one, get rid of it if you want. Any third-party cookies you manage to attract would occur from embedded or pasted content from external sources, which, well, may be required, actually. You'll figure it out. If you get cookies because you copy and paste external content or use an embed from somewhere like soundcloud or facebook or x or twitter or tiktok whatever, then that's them.
Be wary anyways because those things external are not often in their place forever: maybe screenshot those and keep a paired record in BBKB!

It's about doing something oldish, in a newish way.