The addresses

About the addresses on this site

Three addresses sit above every page here. This explains exactly what that list is, what it is not, and why it is shorter and quieter than most lists you will find.

The list contains three strings and nothing else. They were supplied to this site and they are printed the way they arrived, in the order they arrived. No name is attached to any of them, none is numbered, and none is described as the main one, the fast one or the official one. That is not modesty. It is that any of those labels would be a claim, and this site has no way to back a single one of them.

Every page carries the same three, near the top, rather than tucking them into a footer or onto one page of their own. A reader who wants a mars market link should not have to navigate for it, and a reader who is here for the habits should be able to ignore the panel entirely.

What this site will not tell you about them

• Whether any of them opens. Nothing on this site connects to any address, at any time, for any reason. There is no monitor, no scheduled job, no probe and no history of attempts. So there is no light, no percentage, and no date of last checking on any page here, and there never will be.
• Which one to use. Ordering them would mean claiming to know something about their relative behaviour, and this site does not look, so it does not know.
• Whether any of them is genuine. A clearnet page is a weak place to settle that question, and a reader who takes a clearnet page as proof has learned exactly the wrong lesson from it.
• Whether the set is complete or current. Three is what was supplied. It is not a count of everything that exists and it is not a promise that nothing has changed since.

Being told this plainly is more useful than it sounds. A list that quietly implies more than it knows teaches its readers to trust lists, and trusting lists is the habit that most reliably gets people caught out. The reason this list is boring is that a boring list is the only honest kind.

Why it sits above the article rather than inside it

The panel is site furniture, in the same category as the header and the footer, so it lives outside the article on every page. That is partly a matter of structure and partly a matter of honesty: the addresses are not part of the argument any given page is making, and the two should not be tangled together. It also means the text of a page is the page, rather than the page plus the same block of boilerplate forty times over.

The copy button next to each one is there for a practical reason. Long random strings are exactly the kind of thing hands get wrong, and a hand typed string that is wrong by one character does not fail loudly, it goes somewhere else. Several habits on this site are about what happens to a string between reading it and using it, including what a phone keyboard does to one and what a clipboard keeps afterwards.

The habits that attach themselves to an address

A surprising number of the forty pages here are not about the market at all. They are about what people do with a string once they have it. They save it. They bookmark it. They put it in a note. They send it to themselves. They screenshot it. They read it out loud while typing it. They paste it to a friend who asks. Every one of those is the correct thing to do with an important piece of text on any ordinary day.

If you came here for a mars market url and are about to do one of those things with it, the pages worth reading first are the bookmark page, the one about sending yourself a note, and the screenshot page. Between them they cover most of what people do in the first thirty seconds after finding a working address.

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