Around Tilde Town
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:
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
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.
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 yourpublic_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
- a size of 144px by 144px, i.e.,
- 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.
Games on tilde.town
The games have now their own pages for convenience.
More
- 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 pokemonbirthday
- publish your birthdaypairing
- share tmux sessions with people on tildeshadowland
- a forum in the shadowrun universeindexme
- to create a directory listing at index.html in a directory (more info)tweet
ortoot
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: 2024-07-23 19:07:10.745893