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hello! i am ~vilmibm, the creator and maintainer of tilde.town
tilde.club happened in october 2014. at the time, i was living on a friend's floor. i was enchanted by tilde.club and got an account there, but by the time i told my friends about it sign-ups were closed. a few days later it was my birthday, October 11th. I decided the present I wanted was a social unix server. My friend ~cmr stayed up with me all night doing the initial setup. The original dream was to take the mechanical aspects and general spirit of tilde.club but make a place that was more inclusive of less technical folk and would never have a user limit.
For a more thorough account of the town's creation and history, check out this piece i wrote on the town's third birthday.
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The town runs on a sizable Digital Ocean droplet, though we started on the EC2 free tier (and grew until it got too expensive there). We've seen four generations of Ubuntu Server. Our IRC server is Ergo (though when we first adopted it it was called oragono); we previously used both ngircd and charybdis. We also use inspircd to maintain a link to tilde.chat. Our webserver is nginx. Most system scripts are written in Go with some Python3 left over. We used to use a custom custom Django application for signups, a guestbook, and a helpdesk but have since been replacing it with smaller cuter terminal based utilities written in Go.
Our beloved ~insom runs a mastodon instance at tiny.tilde.website. We also have a discord, a steam group, and a Starbound server.
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While there hasn't been a proper tilde.town worldwide meetup, we have had small townie gatherings here and there. Most notable is our Ottawa, Canada contigent. Prior to wandering off to other parts of the USA, ~vilmibm routinely met up with townies in the Portland area.
Meetups have also happened in New York City and LA.
the following are pictures in no particular order from throughout the town's history.
a screen shot from the 4th day of tilde.town's existence.
partying for our 100th user
a banner for our second birthday
~abraxas chats from a dreamcast.
~vilmibm debugging the early usenet connection with tilde.club
originally, anyone could set the irc topic. here's an old one.
a shot from the Cyberpunk Dungeon, the room in which tilde.town was created. It's ~cmr's office in his old apartment. We both worked from there and had a small music studio. Every light was either a brightly coloured LED or a light-shifting LED.
a probably intoxicated me DJing with kc's cool song queuing bot.
a beautiful ascii doge delivered via wall in the early days (i think).
apparently ~m455 loves tron.
the poll from when we had a movie night. i streamed a VHS tape via an RCA USB adapter and a bunch of us watched. let's do that more.
i'm still giddy about multiplayer tron
i'm not sure why i took this screenshot. i like that it's just a normal day on the town. watering plants, talking to friends, feeling feels.
a shot of the sunrise on our home planet in starbound.
i love rainbow text so much.
once we sang the pokemon theme in irc and it made me happy.
some nice graffiti. maybe in feels? not sure.
party time~
i like to visit the tilde.town web page from weird platforms. here it is on Windows 98, the finest OS.
i also managed to SSH into the town from Windows 98! not as impressive as from a dreamcast, but still...
sometimes when debugging things i can get mad.
fun with wall
more fun with wall
i really, really love writo. major hugs to ~selfsame
my partner ~spinecone showing me the physical copy of the town zine we got in the mail. i was away, probably in new york, at the time.
