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No. Every story on PicaLook is free to read, with nothing to sign up for and no app to install. Open a link and start looking.

Use RSS. Every writer’s profile has an RSS link (it lives at /their-handle/feed.xml), and the whole site has a feed at /feed.xml. Add either one to a feed reader and new posts will come to you.

Tap one of the topic chips under a post to see stories on that topic from every writer. On a writer’s profile, the round rings at the top are their categories.

Not every story comes with a picture. When a post has no cover photo, PicaLook gives it a pastel typographic cover with the title in large type, so it still looks at home in the grid.

Writers publish in their own language, and many of them write in Vietnamese. The PicaLook interface is in English, and accented text is fully supported throughout.

Scroll to the end of a story, type the name you would like to appear and your comment, then press Post comment. There is no account and no email address to enter.

Guest comments are held for review and appear only after our moderators approve them. Comments that are not approved are deleted automatically after 30 days.

Because comments do not need an account, there is no way to edit them yourself. Send us a message through the contact page with the topic “Privacy request”, the link to the post and the name you used, and we will take care of it.

Writer accounts are by invitation only and there is no public sign-up. If you would like to write here, tell us about your stories through the contact page and choose “Writing here”.

A cover is shown wide on the post itself and cropped into tiles and rings elsewhere, so keep the subject near the centre and leave a little breathing room around it. Use photos you took yourself or have permission to use, and choose one that tells readers what the story is about at a glance.

You do. By publishing, you give PicaLook permission to host, display and distribute your posts (for example through RSS). You can ask us to remove a single post or your whole blog at any time. The terms explain the details.

Yes. Your profile can include a link to your website, and links inside posts are ordinary links, so you can point readers to your own site and your sources. Please keep them honest, as described in the guidelines.

Use the contact page, choose “Report a post or comment”, and include the link and a short note about what is wrong. For your own work published without permission, choose “Copyright”.

Choose “Privacy request” on the contact page. Our privacy policy explains exactly what the site keeps and for how long.