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tilde.town is a computer meant for sharing.tilde.town is an intentional digital community for making art, socializing, and learning. Unlike many online spaces, users interact with tilde.town through a direct connection instead of a web site. This means using a tool called ssh and other text based tools. featured projects: tilde.town is non-commercial, donation supported, and committed to rejecting false technological progress in favor of empathy and sustainable computing. sign up today! |
Sat Sep 24 18:55:04 UTC 2016
We'll be rebooting on the night of Sunday, 9/25 for server upgrades.
Thu Aug 11 17:58:00 UTC 2016
There was recently an issue with AWS that blocked off HTTP, UDP, and outbound traffic from the town. The outage lasted about 24 hours and is now resolved.
Mon May 9 21:36:08 UTC 2016
Our entry on
brutalist websites was mentioned on a Washington Post blog. Apparently, tilde.town is both ugly and hard to use ^_^ Let ~vilmibm know if this is the case...
Mon Mar 28 06:25:27 UTC 2016
Thanks to the gracious help of user ~demophoon the town is now accessible over https! just hit up https://tilde.town in ye olde browsere to check it out.
Tue Feb 23 16:31:58 PST 2016
the irc and chat commands are now fixed for all users.
in the course of this fix i accidentally deleted everyone's weechat config. if
you had a bunch of stuff in your weechat config that you really want back let me
know and i can check the backups.
Fri Feb 19 13:39:25 PST 2016
because of Reasons, the irc and chat scripts are
broken. you can still use irc, you just have to run the following:
irc /set irc.look.temporary_servers on /quit ircand you should be good to go until this is fixed.
Fri Feb 19 12:07:09 PST 2016
Thanks to this glibc vulnerability the town needs to restart to install security updates.
remember your tilde.town apocalypse training:
Wed Oct 14 13:49:12 PDT 2015
~vilmibm released a rewrite to the server's infrastructure yesterday. Nothing should be different, but it'll be much easier to work on new features and consume fewer resources.
Currently, the guestbook is down. Usenet has also been disabled for now since no one was using it and it has a nontrivial impact on the system. If you want to talk about bringing usenet back, bring it up in irc <3.
Sun Oct 11 18:54:35 UTC 2015
Exactly a year ago, ~vilmibm gave himself a birthday present in the form of a small unix server meant for commnunity and sharing. Now, tilde.town is a thriving community of feels, peer education and beautiful digital art.
If you are not yet a towner, check out our code of conduct, look at some user pages, and sign up!. Everyone is welcome here regardless of skill level and if making SSH keys is a little scary, that's okay. Reach out to for help.
Here's to another year of html and feels.
Sat Aug 1 17:27:15 PDT 2015
today was a day of things happening!
Sun Jul 26 18:01:58 PDT 2015
~vilmibm made a cleaned up homepage. it's linking to two under construction feature--a new help desk for admin requests and a random page linker. there is also a new FAQ.
we've also hit a cool donation milestone of $60. thank you everyone who has donated! our monthly costs are now covered and if we hit $65 we can do some more server enhancements.
Wed Apr 29 06:04:58 UTC 2015
An exciting day for tilde.town. We now have way to donate via patreon. Thanks to all the folx who have already become patrons! y'all make the heart of this sysadmin warm and fuzz. A big part of the push for donations was a need for more server space which we have as of tonight's server upgrade/reboot. The main tilde.town server now has a 40gb disk. Enjoy!
Some updates coming down the pipe:
Tue Jan 27 21:13:27 UTC 2015
Hi. Today tilde.town had to restart to pick up a patch for CVE 2015-0235. data.tilde.town (our poetry server) has also been patched and restated. Sorry for any inconvenience!
Thu Jan 1 07:37:16 UTC 2015
we have ~370 users. isn't that wild?
Wed Nov 26 21:19:12 UTC 2014
To accommodate our growing user base, there will be a server resize/reboot tonight (Pacific time). Sadly I cannot give an exact time as I still don't have internet at my new place and will have to opportunistically find some to execute this upgrade.
The server should only be down for a few minutes, but this will terminate any running applications (like tmux/screen/irssi). Any files open in an editor should be preserved by a swap file but you still may want to save and close things in the next several hours.
Also, this upgrade means that tilde.town is no longer an essentially free project, so I may put up something for donations soon.
Sun Nov 9 23:07:08 UTC 2014
tilde.town now has 102 users. We crossed into three digits last night and lots of townies hung out in irc to celebrate. Some new features even launched!
tweetcommand that all users can use to tweet to the @tildetown account (protip:
haiku | tweet)
random_pokemon.shto get a random ascii art pokemon (thanks, ~sanqui)
Wed Oct 29 18:19:45 UTC 2014
tilde.town just added its 80th user. Welcome! Some folks have been having trouble with ssh public keys. Remember, public keys are really confusing if you aren't too familiar with them, and there is no judgement if you can't immediately get them to work. Feel free to tweet at @tildetown if you'd like some help.
Sat Oct 25 19:37:47 UTC 2014
tilde.town is up to 60 users. This is lovely! It is also only a tenth of our planned total user capacity, so if you are interested in a tilde* account we'd love to have you. You can even submit a user request with a fancy form now!