The home page led with a text hero, a boxed stats strip, a numbered how-it-works list, a trust card and three Bootstrap featurettes with postage-stamp screenshots. It now shows the product first and stays flat: - Hero: copy on the left, the anonymize form in a browser frame on the right, one primary CTA plus a link to a real anonymized repository, and three reassurance points (free, read-only, expires). - Proof and live stats collapse into hairline strips with no cards; the stat bars keep their daily-delta charts and the "+N today" line. - Before/after example gets a section head and shows the actual XXXX-n masks, each labelled for screen readers. - "What you get" is one large screenshot with three vertical tabs (Anonymize, Review, Manage) instead of three columns. Tabs are real buttons with tablist/tab/tabpanel roles, roving tabindex and arrow-key navigation; the description and link sit outside the button. Signed-out visitors are sent to sign in rather than to a dashboard that redirects. - FAQ teaser with the three questions that come up most, linking into the FAQ anchors. - Phone layout: tabs become a strip above the screenshot with the selected description below it, stats go two-up, panes stack, the CTA fills the width, and horizontal overflow is clipped so the hero bleed can never cause sideways scrolling. Removes the dead how-it-works, trust, featurette and metrics styles and the legacy mobile hero font overrides that fought the new sizes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Anonymous GitHub
Share your code and data for double-anonymous peer review — without giving your identity away.
Why
Double-anonymous review asks you to anonymize the artifact behind your paper — the code and data — exactly like the paper itself. Doing that by hand (owner, organization, repository name, logins, and every mention buried in the files) is tedious and easy to get wrong. Anonymous GitHub does it for you and serves the result behind a shareable link.
A free public instance is available at anonymous.4open.science.
What it anonymizes
- The GitHub owner, organization, and repository name
- File and directory names
- File contents of every extension (Markdown, text, source code, …), replacing a configurable list of terms
Usage
Public instance
Just open anonymous.4open.science, paste your repository URL, add the terms to hide, and share the generated link.
CLI
Anonymize a repository locally and produce an anonymized zip:
npm install -g @tdurieux/anonymous_github
anonymous_github
Self-hosting
Run your own instance with Docker
1. Clone and install
git clone https://github.com/tdurieux/anonymous_github/
cd anonymous_github
npm i
2. Configure GitHub access — create a .env file:
GITHUB_TOKEN=<GITHUB_TOKEN>
CLIENT_ID=<CLIENT_ID>
CLIENT_SECRET=<CLIENT_SECRET>
PORT=5000
DB_USERNAME=
DB_PASSWORD=
AUTH_CALLBACK=http://localhost:5000/github/auth
GITHUB_TOKEN— create one at https://github.com/settings/tokens/new with thereposcope.CLIENT_ID/CLIENT_SECRET— from a new GitHub App at https://github.com/settings/applications/new.- The App's callback must be
https://<host>/github/auth(matchingAUTH_CALLBACK).
3. Start the server
docker-compose up -d
4. Open http://localhost:5000. The port can be changed in docker-compose.yml; putting Anonymous GitHub behind nginx is recommended for HTTPS.
For an optional remote, hidden, delayed MongoDB replica and backup source, see the MongoDB replication guide.
Scope of anonymization
In double-anonymous review, the boundary of anonymization is the paper plus its online appendix — and only that. Googling part of the paper or appendix to reveal authorship is considered a deliberate attempt to break anonymity (explanation).
How it works
Anonymous GitHub either downloads the full repository and anonymizes each file, or proxies requests to GitHub on the fly. In both cases the original and anonymized versions are cached on the server, so even large repositories stay responsive.
Related tools
- gitmask — contribute anonymously to a GitHub repository.
- blind-reviews — browser add-on that hides identifying information when reviewing a pull request.
