What belongs here

Last updated 4 September 2026

Orphix is a public map of places that matter to someone. That is the whole idea, and almost everything here follows from it.

Everything you post is public. A place you mark as public — its name, your words, your photographs, its location on the map and the name on your account — can be seen by anyone at all, signed in or not, and by search engines. Write it as something you are content for a stranger to find.

Post this

A place that means something to you, and honestly why.
Natural or made: a stream, an old oak, a shore, a shrine, a bench, a thing built by hand.
A moment on someone else's place — a sighting, a memory, litter cleared, an old photograph, a change in the water.
Your own photographs, or ones you have the right to share.

Not this

Anything hateful. Slurs or abuse aimed at anyone for their race, religion, nationality, disability, sex, gender identity or sexuality. There is no version of this that is a joke, and none that is welcome here.
Anything that puts a person at risk. Do not identify where someone lives, works or walks. Do not mark a place to follow, expose or frighten a particular person.
Anything that puts a place at risk. A nest, a den, a rare plant, an unguarded ruin — if being found would damage it, use "Show this place approximately" so people find the area and not the exact spot.
Threats, harassment, or sexual content.
Somewhere people are not allowed to be, or somewhere unsafe, presented as somewhere to go.
Another person's private information, or their photographs used without permission.
Advertising, spam, or anything unlawful.

Two things worth remembering

A place is shared. Anyone signed in can add a moment to a public place — that is the point of it. So the place you marked will gather other people's words and photographs over time. If you delete the place, you delete their moments with it.

Nothing here is a competition. Care and the small emoji are plain public counts — there are no followers, nothing is ranked by how popular it is, and there is no feed of people. Treat a place someone marked as something they cared enough to write down. If something is wrong, flag it rather than arguing on it.

What happens if something crosses the line

Some words are refused outright when you try to post — you will see a message rather than a place. That check is narrow and mechanical, so it catches slurs thrown in plain text and nothing subtler. It is a floor, not a filter.

Everything else relies on people. Use Report on a place, or the ⚑ on a moment, and it goes to a queue a person reads. Anything breaking these guidelines may be hidden or removed, and an account may be closed. The person who marked a place can also remove any moment on it — that is meant for tidying, not for silencing people who disagree.

You can go back and edit a moment you wrote — its words, what kind it was, and when it happened. Only you can, and the moment says edited afterwards: a shared timeline that quietly rewrites itself would be worth less than one that admits to it.

If you think something was removed wrongly, get in touch. A real person will read it.

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