DeadYet
A verdict, a watch, and a game.
The core is simple: a page per person and a big answer. Everything else exists to make that answer worth coming back for.
One question, one answer
Every person page asks “Is ___ dead?” and answers in the largest type on the page: YES in red, NO in green, or UNKNOWN when nobody can say. Below it: the photo, with its Wikimedia Commons credit and licence, the date of the last check, and how many people are watching.
Pages can carry their own colours, and a status change can fire a confetti effect: realistic, fireworks, stars, or a quiet “pray”. Most pages use none. Some people get fireworks.
Death Watch
One button on every page. Press it and you hear the moment that person’s status changes, by web push or by a verified email, whichever you opted into. Anonymous visitors can watch up to ten people; an account lifts the cap and keeps the list across devices.
The watch count is public, so the homepage’s Most Watched list is a live poll of who the internet is nervous about this week.
Death Pools
A free prediction game. Pick ten people and three alternates before a quarter opens, then score as the year unfolds. Two scoring rules run side by side: Alpha gives one point per death, simple and cold; Omega gives 150 minus the age at death, so younger picks score more, with bonuses for the first, the last and the lonely.
Games run on a rolling quarterly calendar and last twelve months. House bots play every game, so there is always someone to beat. Players must be over eighteen, there is no money involved, and the rules say so on every page.
Badges
Pool badges reward play; site badges reward showing up. Every badge shows how many players have earned it, so a rare one means something. A few of them:
- First Kill
- Held the first death of a Death Pool game.
- Double Kill
- Two of your picks died on the same day.
- Beat the Bots
- Out-scored every house bot.
- Clean Sheet
- Finished a game with no deaths while someone else scored.
- Death Watcher
- Watching more than eleven people.
- Founding Member
- Joined before launch.
Search, Most Watched, A to Z
Name search from every page, the twelve most-watched people and the most recently updated on the homepage, and an A-to-Z of everyone tracked. Can’t find someone? Suggest them, and the suggestion lands in a review queue. Think a status is wrong? Report it, with a link.
Accounts, done properly
Sign in with a password, with Google, GitHub or Discord, or with a passkey. Add a TOTP authenticator for a second factor. Registration sits behind Cloudflare Turnstile, and the sign-in routes are rate limited, so the account that holds your watch list is as careful as a site about death ought to be.
