196 Free Humans: I completely rebuilt the site to better tell what we are trying to create

We are now 196 Free Humans in 13 countries.

Since the previous chronicle of July 10, six people have taken their place. That is few compared to previous weeks. It is even the quietest period since the site opened.

But these last few days have probably been among the most important since the start of the project.

Not because the number has increased significantly. It hasn't.

But because I stopped to honestly look at what wasn't working.

With nearly 200 registered people, no new registration had yet been attributed to a member's invitation. A few people had clicked on invitation links, but none had gone all the way.

The observation was simple: almost 200 humans had joined FreeWillWave, but the Wave was not yet being transmitted from human to human.

And I couldn't just consider that members weren't doing what they should have done.

First, I had to look at what I had built.

I was satisfied with the site at about 60%

I have to be honest: before this redesign, my level of confidence in how FreeWillWave was presented was quite low.

I would say I was satisfied at 60%.

The site worked. It allowed registration, receiving a number, seeing countries, sending energy, viewing the map, and tracking progress.

But I wasn't sure it correctly explained why all of this existed.

And if I myself, after working for nearly fifteen years on the ideas that led to this project, felt that the message remained incomplete, I couldn't ask others to explain it to their loved ones.

FreeWillWave is difficult to tell because the site only represents the simplest part of a much broader reflection.

For years, I searched for a solution to a huge question: how to allow humans to live more according to their own choices, without having to wait for a government, a company, an institution, or a majority to transform the world for them?

The answer I am developing today has become much simpler.

It is not about immediately creating an entire society, a parallel economy, or an organization that claims to solve all problems.

We must start with the main thing: create a group of humans who choose for themselves and respect the same right in others.

A group in which a person can turn to others to reassure themselves, to see that they are not alone, to meet people who share certain values, to ask for help, or to create something with them.

Counting ourselves is just the beginning.

The real goal is to make this group sufficiently visible, alive, and numerous so that it becomes a reality in the experience of each person who joins.

Joining a space of 200 humans does not feel the same as joining a space of two million humans.

Each new person therefore does not represent just an additional unit in a database.

They represent a presence, a possibility of relationship, a skill, an idea, a place, a future meeting, a possible creation, and additional proof that we are not alone.

That is what the site needed to explain better.

Four days without any arrivals

From July 11 to 14 inclusive, no one registered.

Four full days at zero.

That had never happened before since registrations opened.

The ads were paused, and on my side, I was rebuilding almost the entire site. The slowdown therefore had an explanation. But these four days of silence also created a special moment.

The Wave was no longer growing.

During this time, I looked at each page and asked myself:

Does this page really explain what we are doing?
Does a newcomer understand why they should take their place?
Do they understand that their registration is not the end of the experience?
Do they see what the group can bring them?
Do they understand why inviting a person strengthens everyone's experience?
Does the whole thing seem human, bright, and welcoming enough?

The answer was too often no.

So I decided not to make a few small corrections.

I completely rebuilt the site.

FreeWillWave went from dark to light

The most immediately visible change is the color.

FreeWillWave previously used a very dark identity, built around black and deep blue. This version could be elegant, but it no longer sufficiently matched the space I wanted to offer.

The project is about freedom, presence, relationships, hope, and creation.

The site also had to breathe more.

So we switched to a light version: white background, blue, gold, new images, and new typography.

But it's not just a decorative change.

The entire structure has been revised so that the site is simpler to navigate and each page answers a question more clearly.

The top menu has been simplified. The bottom menu is now much more complete. It allows access to the different dimensions of the project without overwhelming the first impression.

The main pages have been rebuilt:

the home page, with live statistics, the map, and the latest arrivals;
the Principle page, which presents the essential ideas of the project;
the Participate page, which shows the different ways to keep the Wave alive;
the Help page, with frequently asked questions and a "where to start" path;
the Wave page, with the map, data, and energies;
the Story, where the adventure is told;
the Support page;
the registration page, now centered on the question: "Do you remember that you are the one who decides?"

All of this exists in the 15 languages of the site.

The new site was prepared in parallel with the old one, then put online all at once, without interruption.

I don't yet know exactly what percentage I am satisfied with today. A site like this can always be improved.

But I would say I went from about 60% to 85% satisfaction.

It's not finished, but it's already much, much better.

The central message has become clearer

The new presentation returns to something very simple.

A human only lives one present moment.

Their attention, time, thoughts, actions, work, and money give energy to what they choose to live.

FreeWillWave does not tell them what to choose.

The project only reminds them: your present moment belongs to you. You are the one who decides.

Then it shows them that other humans also remember this.

We count ourselves to become visible, recognize each other, and gradually create a common space.

The goal is not to replace one authority with another. I build the tool, but I am not the leader of the Free Humans.

A group can propose. A human chooses.

The power of this group should never be measured by what it imposes on its members, but by everything it makes possible for them: relationships, meetings, events, creations, products, services, collaborations, and perhaps one day, real solutions to human needs.

The site had to make this clear before presenting its mechanisms.

Registration must become the beginning of action

The lack of transmission after nearly 200 registrations made me understand another problem.

Until now, a person could register, receive their number, and naturally consider the experience over.

They had answered the question. They had taken their place. They had obtained their number.

Then they left the site.

But registration is not the end of FreeWillWave.

It is the beginning.

Right after the revelation of their number, the new Free Human now sees a question: who would you like to pass the Wave to?

A message is prepared, but it can be modified. Large buttons allow sending it via WhatsApp, Telegram, or copying it.

The message notably uses curiosity about the personal number: "I would like to know your number."

The person can obviously choose to do it later. Nothing is blocked and no one is forced.

In their personal space, they also see a very simple first goal: 0/1 — Invite your first Free Human.

The idea is not to turn the invitation into an obligation.

The idea is to show that the natural follow-up to registration is to help a person you would like to have by your side discover the space.

A registration strengthens the Wave once.

A transmission can continue to strengthen it far beyond.

A new directory to find others

The project's message could not be: "We gather together," if the site did not actually allow finding others.

The messaging already allowed searching for a person. But it did not answer an important question: who accepts or appreciates being contacted?

A new directory has therefore been created.

Logged-in members can now browse the Free Humans who have agreed to appear and search them by:

name;
number;
country;
language;
contact preference.

As of July 16, 188 contactable members are listed.

People who have chosen not to be contacted simply do not appear.

The order of the directory changes every day. It is not a ranking: the rotation allows everyone to regularly appear higher in the list.

The directory is accessible here for logged-in members: Discover the Free Humans

This feature seems simple, but it represents an important evolution.

FreeWillWave should not only answer the question "how many are we?"

It must gradually allow answering another question: who are the humans I can meet, contact, or create something with?

The messaging has also been improved

The search in the messaging previously mixed several needs.

It now clearly distinguishes:

searching within one's own conversations;
searching among all members;
accessing the directory of contactable people.

The search also handles accents better. Typing "jose" for example allows finding "José".

A search started in the messaging can be kept when switching to the directory.

The messaging is accessible here: Open messages

A little note sent with energy is now a real message

On July 10, I sent energy to Yannick, Free Human #194, who had just joined the site.

I had added a little personal note.

The energy had been sent, but I couldn't find the message in my conversation. From my point of view, it had disappeared.

This allowed me to see an obvious flaw: when energy is accompanied by a note, that note is no longer just a decorative element attached to an animation.

It is a human message.

Now, when a person sends energy with text, it appears in the messaging under the recipient's name and opens a real conversation.

Similarly, the Resend energy function has been improved.

Previously, the button resend energy without letting the user choose the clip and without producing a sufficiently visible confirmation. This gave the impression that nothing had happened.

Now, the person chooses the clip they want to send and sees it play in full screen.

The gesture becomes visible, understandable, and much more alive.

Energy continues, even when registrations slow down

While arrivals almost stopped, energy-related activity continued.

Since the site opened, 653 energies have been sent by 44 different members.

Among them, 51 have been sent since July 10, including during the four days without new registrations.

This is important.

It shows that some people did not just register and then forget the site. They come back. They perform the gesture. They participate in the collective presence.

Alistair A, Free Human #40, in New Zealand, became the first member to cross the 100-energy mark. He currently has 101.

The energy ranking, presented as a tool for transparency and recognition rather than a competition, is currently as follows:

Alistair A — #40 — New Zealand: 101 energies
Lionel — #2 — Belgium: 64 energies
Samantha Read — #87 — United Kingdom: 61 energies

Then come:

Apolline — #3 — France: 23
Rachel Smith — #42 — United States: 11

The map and information about energy are visible on the page: See the Wave

We must now create a true group energy

Energy is probably one of the dimensions that most deserves to be developed in the coming days and weeks.

The gesture exists. Members already come back to perform it. But we can go much further.

I would like the site's activity to allow feeling what is actually spreading among humans.

Today, we notably show the latest registrations. But an isolated arrival only tells a small part of the story.

I would like to start showing the chains.

For example:

Free Human #1 invites #14;
#14 invites #54;
#54 invites #185;
then #185 passes it on.

The value lies not only in the final number.

It lies in the continuity.

Each link in this chain represents a human who freely decided to show the space to another human.

An ad can bring several people at once. That is useful and necessary. But a person-to-person chain shows something else: the real transmission of the flame.

This propagation could be represented on the map, with its starting point, its path, its countries, and its new links.

We could also integrate into this living flow:

the energies sent;
the supports;
the new languages;
the new countries;
the chains that lengthen;
the people who reach a milestone;
the events or creations that arise between members.

I also want to find a form of collective ritual.

Something simple and fun that several people could do at the same time.

Not an obligation. Not a task meant to produce guilt. Not a streak one is afraid to break.

A rendezvous that reminds us that we are several choosing, at the same moment, to give a little attention to this common reality.

This ritual could be linked to energy, the map, or the daily time of the Wave. It should create a feeling of presence, pride, belonging, and freedom, without ever asking the individual to disappear into the group.

I haven't settled on the best form yet.

Your ideas are therefore truly welcome.

You can use the messaging and choose Send a remark: Propose an idea

Emails have been simplified

When a person joins FreeWillWave thanks to a member, that moment should be pleasant.

It should not look like an automated campaign.

In some situations, an arrival could previously trigger up to four different emails.

Now, an arrival produces a single email, the one that carries the most meaning.

Messages related to invitation milestones have also been modified. They now name the person who just arrived.

The human must come before the number.

The welcome email also had a problem: a technical code could appear instead of the Free Human number in the greeting sentence.

That is fixed. The email now correctly fulfills its main function: revealing the personal number.

The Arabic and Persian versions have also been corrected to display right-to-left, including in Gmail.

Offering 15 languages means truly respecting how each one is read.

The site is much faster on phone

A large part of people discover FreeWillWave on their phone, especially from an ad.

The first contact cannot start with several seconds of waiting.

The home page has therefore been heavily lightened. Its weight has been reduced by more than half, and images now adapt to screen size.

This change is less spectacular than a new map or a new directory, but it is essential.

Every second lost before display can represent a person who will never discover the rest.

The privacy policy has been made more precise

FreeWillWave is based on a principle of transparency.

We do nothing that we should hide.

The privacy policy now explicitly names the measurement tools used:

the X pixel, used to understand the results of the advertising campaign;
Umami, used for site statistics without cookies.

It also explains that the country can be pre-filled from the IP address.

This pre-filling remains a suggestion. The person can correct it during registration or later in their settings.

An old section contained promises that were no longer entirely accurate. It has been replaced by a more precise description of what actually happens.

Transparency is not about using reassuring phrases.

It is about telling the truth in an understandable way.

Six new people during this period

Despite the slowdown, six humans have taken their place since the previous chronicle:

Welcome to them.

The main distribution is currently as follows:

Canada: 49
United Kingdom: 41
France: 36
United States: 33
New Zealand: 12
Australia: 9
Belgium: 3

The full numbers can be viewed here: See the Wave in numbers

Ads on X have resumed

I had suspended ads on X.

I no longer saw the point of continuing to send people to a presentation in which I myself had only limited confidence.

Increasing the number of visitors would not have solved the problem.

It would simply have allowed more people to see a message I did not yet consider clear enough.

With the new version of the site online, ads resumed on July 15, with targeting centered on the United States.

Two new American registrations arrived that same day: Raynathan Jenkins #195 and Demian Stoltz #196.

It is far too early to draw a conclusion.

X must find people likely to be interested in the topic. It will probably take several days to have sufficiently useful data.

But an important difference now exists: the site can tell X which visits actually turn into registrations.

Previously, the distribution was largely blind. X could send clicks, but did not properly receive the information to understand which visitors became Free Humans.

Next week should therefore allow a better evaluation of the new presentation.

The real question is not just whether the ad gets more clicks.

The question is whether the people who arrive understand better:

what FreeWillWave offers them;
why their place matters;
what the group can gradually make possible;
why they might want to invite another person.

Financial support has not changed

There has been no new financial support during this period.

Oddur Tom, Free Human #79 in Australia, remains the first and only member to have provided support: 5 dollars.

A support buys no right, no rank, and no advantage in the Wave.

It simply helps pay for the existence and development of the tool.

I would like to know the members' opinions

I especially invite already registered members to come back and see the new site.

Don't just look at the colors.

Read the new wording. Browse the home page, The Principle, Participate, Help, the Wave, and the directory.

Then tell me what you understand.

Also tell me what remains unclear.

You can send me a message directly. My name is Serge, Free Human #1.

I especially want to know if the new version helps better understand that FreeWillWave is not just a declaration or a number.

The idea is to create a group of humans who recognize their own freedom and respect that same freedom in others.

A group that a person can turn to to feel less alone, find relationships, propose something, ask for help, participate in a creation, or simply observe that a positive reality is growing.

It is not about fitting humans into a new structure that would decide for them.

It is about building a structure that remains at their service.

You remain free to leave

The new presentation is more precise.

It states more clearly what I mean by free will, freedom, group, and present moment.

It is therefore possible that a person registered from the old presentation discovers that this new wording does not suit them.

In that case, they are obviously free to leave the site.

The goal is not to cause departures.

The goal is that everyone truly knows what they are taking part in.

A higher number would make no sense if it were based on a misunderstanding.

I prefer a group made up of humans who understand why they are there rather than an artificially high counter thanks to vague wording.

Freedom must apply in both directions: everyone is free to join, and everyone remains free not to continue.

We are 196, but the real work begins now

We went from 190 to 196 Free Humans in six days.

That is not impressive growth.

But during this period, FreeWillWave changed its face, structure, and especially its clarity.

The site has become brighter. Registration leads more towards transmission. Members can find each other better. The messaging works more humanly. Energy becomes a real way to open a relationship. Emails have been simplified. The site is faster. The privacy policy is more precise. And promotion has resumed with better measurement tools.

I am now much more confident in what new visitors will discover.

Not completely satisfied. Not at the end. But satisfied enough to start sending people to the site again and honestly observe what happens.

The next step is not just to reach 200. It is to make the first real transmission chain appear. Then the next one. To circulate more energy. To invent a common ritual. To make visible the relationships that begin. To allow a person to look at FreeWillWave and feel not only that a site exists, but that humans are actually finding each other.

That is what we are trying to build.

A space where you count. A space where your place is visible. A space where you can find others. A space that does not tell you what to do with your freedom, but becomes more real thanks to what each person freely chooses to bring to it.

Remember. Take your place. Find the others. Let's live it together.