Frequently Asked Questions

About Us

What is A Strangers Diary?

StrangersDiary.com is a completely anonymous and free online journal diary. Read our privacy policy to learn how much we care about your privacy.

Why should I get an account?

The most obvious would be to post your secrets online. But if you enjoy reading paticular strangers diaries you can stalk them. Also, when you vote on entries while logged in the entry is added to your favorites.

Why would I want to post my secrets online?

Everyone has secrets that they need to get off their chest, but sometimes friends and family do not take secrets lightly and can react in ways that may ruin your relationship with them. We want to help you get things off your chest without fear of losing friends or family. But we also want to read your most private thoughts. Why? Because what you have to say may be funny, horrible, or weird. Yes we will judge you.

My Account

How do I retrieve a lost password?

If you do have access to your email go to the forgot my password page and type in your email and click submit. This will send an email that will help you.

If you no longer have access to your email that you signed up with or you used a fake email, we are sorry we can not help you.

I forgot my security questions

Security questions get reset when you complete the steps in "forgot my password".

Entries

How do I post an entry?

To post an entry, you can either login and post on the My Diary page or post on the write page. The only required field is the body field.

What does all this stuff on the entry form mean?

  • Title is not required but must not exceed 40 characters.
  • Body is the main blank area of the entry. This is where you write your entry.
  • There are two types of entries on this website, short and long. Some people feel the need to write short entries, where as others want to express in detail. Either way is fine but we wanted to make it simple for you to be able to figure out which length category your entry may show up under.
    • Short diary entries are less or equal to 140 characters.
    • Long diary entries are greater than 140 characters.
  • Category is optional, it allows you to search your posts by catgory.
  • Comments is a setting which allows you to set how strangers interact with your entry. Learn more about comments.

How do I delete an entry?

To delete an entry you must view your diary and select the delete button. Then click Yes on the confirmation question.

How do I edit an entry?

You may edit an entry at any time. You must view your diary and find the entry you wish to edit and . Then click it and your entry will be populated in the form at the top of the page. Edit the entry and submit the form.

Comments

How do I delete a comment?

You can delete comments posted on your entries or comments posted by you. To delete a comment log in and turn on private mode. Thens find thecomment you wish to delete and click "Delete Comment" at the bottom of the comment.

Privacy Settings

Accounts and Entries have a privacy settings. These settings allows you to change how other strangers view or comment on your entries.

How do I change my default privacy settings?

Simply go into the settings page and in the privacy settings section you can change the default settings.

Whats with all these entry settings?

  • Public allows everyone to view the entry.
  • Anonymous allows everyone to view the entry but sees it posted by the anonymous stranger.
  • Private allows only you to view the entry.
  • My Default bases your entry settings on what your default entry setting is set to and will automatically change when you change your default entry setting.

Whats with all these comment settings?

  • Enabled allows everyone to view the comments posted on your entry.
  • Disabled will not allow anybody to post or view comments.
  • Enabled, not shared is a mode where strangers can comment on your entries and other strangers cannot see their comments. If you respond to a strangers comment that stranger will be able to view your response.
  • My Default bases your comment settings on what your default comment setting is set to and will automatically change when you change your default comment setting.

Private Mode

When private mode is turned on you can: post comments, delete comments, view your diary, post to your diary, and change your account settings. This feature enables you to easily show friends your favorite diary entries without giving away your secret identity.

Private mode is automatically is disabled after a short time of your account being inactive or you can turn it off yourself.

How do I turn on private mode?

To turn private mode on and off click the "Turn on private mode" button in the bottom right of the website when you are logged in.

How do I disable private mode?

Login and go to the account settings page and uncheck the box next to "Enable Private Mode"

Other Questions

How do I stalk or stop stalking someone?

While we do not actually condone stalking people, we do allow users to "follow" others. To do this, simply click the "stalk" button on one of their entries. To stop stalking a stranger click the "stalking" button on one of their entries.

Why do some entry pages not have an rss feed?

Do to the nature of how the page functions, an RSS feed is not appropriate. For example, the random entries page does not have RSS feeds because if it did- it would always be generating new entries for your rss reader and would never stop. You would recieve duplicate entries and that is not a healthy RSS feed.

Search features present a similar problem. Because votes and relavency is an every changing variable entries shift constantly causing poor RSS updates. You can however arrange by most recent and get an rss feed for that!

We also do not support feeds for entries ("Favorites", "Stalkees", and "My Diary") since you can only accessed these pages while logged in.

Entry moderation notice

If your entry has been put into moderation, the entry will be saved into your diary but will not be viewable to anyone else. If you are not logged in, it will still be saved and reviewed before it is displayed on the website. This is because we suspect the entry may contain spam. We apologize, but we believe this system is better than a captcha (type in an unreadable word).

Who made this website?

Well it was a massive combination of people from suggestions to actual work being done.

Have a question?

Send us an email by using the contact us page.