Verus shows what it carries, live, without showing who
The verusapp.co.uk homepage now shows a live running total of message deliveries to devices, updating as it happens, using totals only.
What I tried
A messaging service can prove it is in use by publishing figures, but most such figures are built from records of who talked to whom.
Why I chose differently
Verus is designed to keep no such record, so any public figure had to come from totals that never existed per person.
What I chose
The homepage reads a running total of every message delivered to a device, updating every few seconds while it is on screen, with today's count underneath. Every visitor shares one answer from the server, so the figure costs the same however many people are watching.
The principle
You can be open about scale without being open about people. Count the totals and never build the list.
- Verus
- Transparency
- Privacy
- Live data