Unplugged is a shared 15-minute blackout for small, independent websites. One evening, thousands of sites go quiet at once — so the people who keep the web running remember what "always on" actually costs, and what it's worth.
Most of the internet runs on infrastructure nobody thinks about until it breaks: servers, maintainers, electricity, bandwidth, the quiet labor of keeping a small site online every single day. Unplugged makes that invisible work visible, for exactly as long as it takes to notice it.
A site that's always there stops feeling like a choice. Fifteen minutes of absence brings the choice back into view.
Every uptime streak has someone maintaining it. Going dark on purpose is a small, visible thank-you to them.
One site going offline is a bug report. Thousands going dark at the same time is a shared moment of appreciation.
Unplugged runs on a single line of code and an honor system. No account, no tracking, no dashboard to check.
Everyone goes dark on Saturday, July 25th, 5:00–5:15pm BST — one fixed window, so the blackout lands at the same moment for every site.
Add one script tag to your site. It checks the time and swaps your page for a short, dark placeholder during the window — nothing else changes.
At 5:00pm BST your site quiets down. At 5:15 it comes back on its own. No redeploy required either way.
Add the snippet below to every page you want to go dark. It checks the time and swaps your page for a short, dark placeholder during the window — nothing else changes.
Important: You must add this script to every HTML page you want to go dark. If you only add it to your homepage, other pages will remain accessible during the blackout window.