Around Tilde Town

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Socializing on ~town

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

IRC

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

#tildetown (default)
#bots
#music
#dev
#dumpsterfire

For more information, see the IRC wiki!

#fridaypostcard

View postcards

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

bbj

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

blogging with `feels`

We have an internal command-line blogging platform. To use it, run: feels while logged in to tilde.town.

more info here

For your public_html/

tilde.town ring

View all ~ring members (tidier version)

Join the ~ring.

blog posts

feels can automatically post entries to your public_html; just enable publishing from the settings menu!

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 - ASCII art tilde.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: 2024-10-15 11:00:58.792855