Why Avelune exists

I built Avelune because of something I went through myself. For a while I genuinely wasn't okay, but I kept telling people I was fine. Not to deceive anyone, it just felt like too much to say out loud. I didn't want to be the person with problems, and the gap between "I should talk to someone" and actually doing it felt impossibly wide.

What actually helped wasn't a hotline or a therapist, at least not right away. It was stumbling across people online who described exactly what I was feeling before I even had words for it. That quiet "oh, me too" is what started to shift things for me. Avelune is built around that feeling: somewhere to say the thing without your name attached, where someone else going through something similar might feel a little less alone because of it.

I'm not a mental health professional, just someone who felt like this space should exist and happened to know how to build it. So I did. Use it however it's useful to you: vent, listen, connect, or just read and know you're not the only one.

A lot of peer support happens in general-purpose spaces: support servers bolted onto chat software, or threads on a platform built for everything else. Avelune is built for one thing, and that shows up in three concrete ways.

Your identity here doesn't travel. On platforms tied to the rest of your life, someone from your school or friend group can end up in the same space and recognise you. On Avelune your account only exists on Avelune. No shared history, no mutual server, nothing that connects the username back to you.

Posts are typed, and replies follow the type. A post marked "vent" gets a reply box that reminds people not to jump straight to fixing it. A post marked "advice needed" doesn't. Most feeds treat every post the same way, so someone who just wants to be heard ends up buried in advice nobody asked for.

Crisis language gets caught while you're typing, not after you post. If what you're writing matches known crisis language, resources show up before the post even goes out. It's not a moderation action after the fact, it happens in the moment.

You sign up with an email and pick a username, and that's all anyone ever sees. There's a shared feed where people post honestly about what they're going through, organised by topic. You can comment, message someone privately if a post resonates with you, or search by keyword or topic.

If posting isn't your thing, Talk lets you put up a card saying you want someone to talk to. Other members can say hi, and you pick who to answer. No post required.

There's also a private wellness space: daily mood check-ins, a personal journal, weekly patterns. Other members never see any of it, and I never read it.

No real names. Always free.