around town

tilde.town is home to a bunch of folks doing a bunch of different things. Below are some places of note.

Socializing on ~town

IRC

Join the chat with the town chat command. Anyone can create a channel, or join an existing one:

tildetown (default)
bots
music
programming
coworking
websiteclub

For more information, see the IRC wiki!

bbj

Join our internal forum with town bbj and follow the instructions to set up an account!

feels

We have an internal command-line blogging platform. To use it, run town neofeels.

bink

Bink is a simple feed for microblogging on a shared wall. Run town bink to see what we're chatting about.

local mail

tilde.town's mail server cannot send outgoing mail or accept incoming mail; it's for contacting other users on the server internally only.

Current mail clients on the town are:

alpine
mutt

#fridaypostcard

View postcards

To contribute: share a link to an image on IRC with the text #fridaypostcard. Updated every Friday.

For your public_html/

tilde.town ring

View all ~ring members (tidier version)

Join the ~ring.

tildebook

tildebook is tilde.town's unofficial user directory! To add your profile,

simply create tildebook_profile.html in your public_html,
make sure the web page has
- a size of 144px by 144px, i.e., <body style="width:144px;height:144px">
- overflow:hidden on <body>, i.e., <body style="width:144px;height:144px;overflow:hidden">,
- links with target="_parent", i.e., <a target="_parent" href="https://example.com">, and
run /home/login/cronjobs/update_tildebook to have it added in as an <iframe>.

gopher

gopher is a pre-web, text-only technology that uses a directory structure to navigate documents instead of hyperlinks. tilde.town's server can be found at gopher://tilde.town:70, and you can make your own gopherhole by creating public_gopher in your home directory. you'll need a gopher-compatible browser (try lynx gopher://tilde.town:70) to view gopher pages.

full guide

Games on tilde.town

The games have now their own pages for convenience.

Code on ~.town - see what others coded on tilde.town
music sharing - share your favorite songs
video sharing - share your favorite youtube videos
tilde.town cadastre - make a parcel in an ASCII art town
watch some shrimps - watch some shrimps at the command line
watch a train - watch a train with user-made cars and add your own
see location of townies - see where in the world townies are
random_pokemon.sh - get an ASCII art pokemon
birthday - publish your birthday
pairing - share tmux sessions with people on tilde
shadowland - a forum in the shadowrun universe
indexme - to create a directory listing at index.html in a directory (more info)
tweet or toot something (tweet currently defunct)
~.town fortunes - get a random tip, joke, recommendation from another townie
holodeck - a shared storytelling tool
rainbow wall - a world-modifiable rainbow wall
nicethings - a command intended to cheer people up

If you notice anything else cool and useful around town, feel free to add it here!

last compiled: 2026-01-03 23:49:34.063970

around town

Socializing on ~town

IRC

tildetown (default)

bots

music

programming

coworking

websiteclub

bbj