privacy

MNLN collects the minimum data needed to run accounts, moderation, voting, and abuse controls.

stored data

• Account data: username, optional short bio, password hash, creation time, karma, admin/ban status, and session revocation timestamps.
• Community data: submitted links, tags, comments, votes, and moderation records.
• Abuse controls: IP-derived rate-limit keys and moderation reasons. Raw passwords are never stored.

cookies

• Signed HTTP-only session cookies keep users logged in.
• Signed CSRF cookies protect forms.

third parties

• Turnstile may be used for login and registration abuse prevention.
• Public ticker tag pages may request a simple quote from Yahoo Finance. Failures are ignored.