<p><sub><em>Wed Oct 14 13:49:12 PDT 2015</em></sub></p>
<p>
~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.
</p>
<p>
Currently, the <strong>guestbook</strong> 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.
</p>
<h4>BIRTHDAY! The Town Turns 1</h4>
<p><sub><em>Sun Oct 11 18:54:35 UTC 2015</em></sub></p>
<p>
Exactly a year ago, <ahref="/~vilmibm">~vilmibm</a> 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.
</p>
<p>
If you are not yet a towner, check out our <a
href="http://tilde.town/~wiki/conduct.html">code of conduct</a>,
<strong>Here's to another year of html and feels.</strong>
</p>
<h4>new stuff!</h4>
<p><sub><em>Sat Aug 1 17:27:15 PDT 2015</em></sub></p>
<p>
today was a day of things happening!
<ul>
<li>the first ever tilde.town volunteer admin meeting happened today. <ahref="/~insom">~insom</a>, <ahref="/~krowbar">~krowbar</a>, and <ahref="/~vilmibm">~vilmibm</a> all met to talk about the future tilde.town and how to ease the burden of things like user signups. Marks the first ever international face-to-face meeting of townies. exciting!
</li>
<li>
<ahref="/guestbook">guestbook</a> went live! (<em>lol</em>)
</li>
<li>
you can now click on the pretty ascii tilde.town over to the
left to visit a random page (or just go directly
to <ahref="/cgi/random">/cgi/random</a>).
</li>
</ul>
as always, tilde.town is a place for html and feels. feels run
<ahref="/~vilmibm">~vilmibm</a> 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 <ahref="/~wiki/faq.html">FAQ</a>.
</p>
<p>
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.
</p>
<h4>donations! also, new disk</h4>
<p><sub><em>Wed Apr 29 06:04:58 UTC 2015</em></sub></p><p>An exciting day for
tilde.town. We now have way to donate via <a
href="https://www.patreon.com/nathanielksmith">patreon</a>. 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!</p>
<p>Some updates coming down the pipe:
<ul>
<li>2gb quota for all users</li>
<li>fixed poetry server</li>
<li>better signup process/docs</li>
</ul>
</p>
<h4>welcome haiku</h4>
<p><sub><em> Thu Mar 5 21:19:42 UTC 2015</em></sub></p>
<p>If you signed up in the last two months or so you had a bum welcome present
in your /home. the script has been fixed and now everyone retroactively has a
welcome haiku in their home directory. enjoy.</p>
<h4>server restart</h4>
<p><sub><em>Tue Jan 27 21:13:27 UTC 2015</em></sub></p>
<p>Hi. Today tilde.town had to restart to pick up a patch for <a
<li>the homepage userlist is now sorted by modified time</li>
<li>there is now a shared <pre>tweet</pre> command that all users can use to tweet to the <ahref="http://twitter.com/tildetown">@tildetown</a> account (protip: <pre>haiku | tweet</pre>)</li>
<li>run <pre>random_pokemon.sh</pre> to get a random ascii art pokemon (thanks, <ahref="http://tilde.town/~sanqui">~sanqui</a>)</li>
<li>a <ahref="http://tilde.town/~wiki">git-based wiki</a> that all townies can edit (thanks for the help, <ahref="http://tilde.town/~datagrok">~datagrok</a>)</li>
<strong><ahref="http://goo.gl/forms/8IvQFTDjlo">submit a user account request!</a></strong>
</p>
</p>
<h4>Change of IP, warnings when you ssh</h4>
<p><sub><em>Sun Oct 19 03:28:59 UTC 2014</em></sub></p>
<p>
In the interest of making sure we don't suddenly disappear from the Internet
as a result of a dynamic IP change on AWS I switched to using an Elastic
IP (amusingly, "elastic" IPs are static).
</p>
<p>
The upside is that we now have a static IP (also it's free) (woo).
</p>
<p>
The downside is that when you try to SSH into tilde.town, now, you'll get an
error about "something nasty" and there will be many @ characters. You'll want
to edit your .ssh/known_hosts file and remove the entry for tilde.town (your
error message should have a cute copy-pasta-able one-liner for doing this for
you).
</p>
<p>
Go ahead and do that, and then log in With Confidence. Hopefully this won't happen again.
</p>
<p>
I'll close by mentioning the imminent arrival of many new tildeverse members. We (the tildeverse operators) are just about ready to accept the signups currently languishing in a waitlist. This means lots of new users, which is lovely, but may mean some growing pains while I adapt our server to the new user load in the most cost-effective way.