Trivialism
About Trivialism
A trivia platform built on a simple conviction: that knowing things — and the small thrill of recalling them at the right moment — is one of the more underrated pleasures available to a person.
The premise
Trivialism is a multiplayer trivia platform. You can host a live quiz night for friends, run one for an entire Discord server, or play the daily quiz on your own. That is the whole of what it does, and we have tried to do it precisely.
The name is a quiet joke at its own expense. Trivia descends from the Latin trivium — the place where three roads meet, where people once stopped to trade the small, ambient knowledge of the day. There has never been anything trivial about wanting to know things. We built this for the people who already agree.
Why it exists
Most quiz apps treat their players as an audience to be monetised rather than a room to be entertained. The questions are recycled, the interface is crowded with prompts to upgrade, and the act of playing is buried beneath everything built to interrupt it.
We wanted the opposite. A game that is free to start, quick to begin, and honest about what it is. No mandatory account before your first question. No artificial difficulty engineered to sell you a way out of it. Just a well-made question, a fair clock, and the satisfaction of getting it right.
What we hold to
- Curiosity over cleverness
- A good question rewards genuine knowledge and the occasional inspired guess. It should never punish a player for failing to think exactly like the person who wrote it.
- Fair play, without exception
- Scoring is transparent, timers can be adjusted, and the rules are identical for everyone in the room. A trivia night is only worth winning if it could have been lost.
- Accessible by default
- We build to WCAG 2.1 AA and treat accessibility as part of the game rather than an apology for it. Everyone gets to play.
- Respect for your attention
- We will not sell your data, manufacture urgency, or interrupt a good game to advertise a better one. The reward for answering correctly is the answer.
Who is behind it
Trivialism is built and maintained by a small, independent team. It began as the work of one developer and trivia enthusiast who thought the genre deserved better software, and it has grown carefully from there. We write about what we are building on our development blog, and we read what you send back.
If you have found a question that is wrong, a feature that is missing, or simply a firm opinion about the correct answer, we would genuinely like to hear it.
Common questions
Is Trivialism free?
Completely. You can start a game or play the daily quiz without an account — signing up only saves your stats, streaks, and place on the leaderboards. A few unobtrusive ads keep the lights on, and that is the whole of the business model.
Who is building it?
For now, a one-person team — plus a lot of patient friends roped in to test everything before it ships. It is a genuinely small operation, and we rather like it that way.
Why does it mention “The Digital Local”?
You may notice the name in our email address and at thedigitallocal.com. The Digital Local was Trivialism's original name; it was renamed after search engines proved unable to tell it apart from every local newspaper on the internet. The full story — and the happy accident behind the new name — is on the development blog.
How can I help?
More than you might think. Three things make the biggest difference:
- Play the game — even a quick daily quiz keeps the questions sharp and the project alive.
- — a wrong answer, a rough edge, a missing feature. We read all of it.
- Subscribe to the newsletter — the form at the foot of this page — for the occasional note on what is new.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections, and strong opinions are all welcome at [email protected].