A mews is the lane round the back where the stables were: narrow, quiet, not on the way to anywhere. Small sites, plain words, nothing watching.
Gemini, Spartan, the IndieWeb and the small web got there first, and they are right about the problem. But a calmer web doesn't really need a new protocol and a client nobody has.
There was already a standard cut back on purpose: XHTML Mobile Profile 1.2 aka. WAP 2.0 is strict XML with no frames and basic tables, because a 2008 phone couldn't afford more. Mews takes out the scripts and styling too. The phones are still the excuse but this time the quiet is the point.
Authors provide structure. Readers control presentation.
For viewing Mews pages in regular web browsers there is exactly one stylesheet, thirty-two colours and all, and you don't write it: copy mews-0.1.css onto your own site, link it, and leave it alone. Host your own copy rather than linking this one.
Anyone can submit an address. The page is fetched, put through both of the spec's checks, and listed at once if it passes. Nobody reviews it.
Listed sites are checked again every week, and one whose page stops conforming is dropped. Submit the fixed page and it goes straight back in. Being unreachable buys a few days first.
The checks say nothing about what a site publishes. Write to the address below and a listing comes out.
A submission stores the address you gave, its domain, the findings, and a salted hash of your IP address for the rate limits, resalted monthly. Raw addresses are never stored.
Everything is deleted after ninety days. No cookies, nothing loaded from anywhere else, and no analytics, which given the subject matter would have been embarrassing.
So: write something. Link to a neighbour. Leave the light on.
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