Time&Again
Manifesto
People leave data wherever they gather. An online room keeps every post and comment. The words a city coins pass through its comments, songs and signs. Earlier groups kept tallies, ledgers and calendars.
Together these record how groups of people run: who speaks, what gets repeated, how a word spreads and who belongs. We call this cultural exhaust, and we study it with numbers.
Our mission is to show what it means to be human through the patterns people leave, past and present. These are the rules we keep while doing it.
We count first.
Each study starts from numbers someone else could recount: how many rooms, how many posts, what share, what median.
We measure every group the same way.
The same measures run on a room of 69 thousand people and a room of 15 million, so the two can be read side by side.
We date every number.
Online rooms change by the week. Each figure carries the date its data was built.
We check our own reading.
A sample is read a second time with its source hidden, and the report says how often the two readings agree.
We state the limits.
Public data leaves out the people who read and never post. Each report lists what its evidence can’t answer next to what it found.
We publish counts and protect people.
We report counts, shares and medians. No post or comment is quoted, and no one in our data is named.
We keep the reports free.
Every report and its method are free to read and share under CC BY 4.0.
We share what the data says about working together.
Most people spend their days in groups at work. When a study shows something about how people work and how they work with one another, we publish it for the people doing the work.
Rafael AbbariaoFounder, 12 November 2026