Merge pull request #8 from datagrok/master

add tdp-format stats script

scripts/active_users.sh

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-who | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort -u | wc -l | xargs echo "active_user_count=" | sed 's/ //'

scripts/generate_home_page.sh

@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+# Feed JSON/tdp output from "stats" into mustache template to generate
+# tilde.town homepage. Invoke periodically from crontab.
+
 export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
 
-source /var/local/venvs/tildetown/bin/activate
+template=/usr/local/tildetown-scripts/tildetown/templates/frontpage.html
-
+mustache=/usr/local/tildetown-scripts/tildetown/mustache.py
-stats=/usr/bin/stats
+input_path=/var/www/tilde.town/tilde.json
-template=/var/www/tilde.town/template.index.html
-mustache=/var/local/tildetown/scripts/mustache.hy
 output_path=/var/www/tilde.town/index.html
 
-($stats || echo '{}') | hy $mustache $template > $output_path
+if [ ! -f "$input_path" ]; then
-deactivate
+  print "homepage generation needs missing $input_path"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+exec /usr/local/virtualenvs/tildetown/bin/python "$mustache" "$template" < "$input_path" > "$output_path"

scripts/stats

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/bin/sh
-
+# run stats.py in the appropriate virtualenv.
-cd /var/local
+#
-
+# invoke periodically from crontab and direct the output to
-source venvs/tildetown/bin/activate
+# /var/www/tilde.town/tilde.json
-output=$(python tildetown/tildetown-py/stats.py)
+exec /usr/local/virtualenvs/tildetown/bin/python /usr/local/tildetown-scripts/tildetown/stats.py
-deactivate
-echo $output

tildetown/stats.py

@@ -1,84 +1,169 @@
+#!/usr/local/bin/python3
+
+# stats.py - tilde data in tilde data protocol format.
+# Copyright 2015 Michael F. Lamb <http://datagrok.org>
+# License: GPLv3+
+
+"""
+Outputs JSON data conforming to "~dp (Tilde Description Protocol)" as defined
+at: http://protocol.club/~datagrok/beta-wiki/tdp.html
+
+It is a JSON structure of the form:
+
+{
+    'name':         (string) the name of the server.
+    'url':          (string) the URL of the server.
+    'signup_url':   (string) the URL of a page describing the process required to request an account on the server.
+    'want_users':   (boolean) whether the server is currently accepting new user requests.
+    'admin_email':  (string) the email address of the primary server administrator.
+    'description':  (string) a free-form description for the server.
+    'users': [      (array) an array of users on the server, sorted by last activity time
+        {
+            'username': (string) the username of the user.
+            'title':    (string) the HTML title of the user’s index.html page.
+            'mtime':    (number) a timestamp representing the last time the user’s index.html was modified.
+            },
+        ...
+        ]
+    'user_count':   (number) the number of users currently registered on the server.
+    }
+
+We also overload this with some data we were using in the previous version of
+stats.py, which is of the form:
+
+{
+    'users': [ (array) of users on the server.
+        {
+            'default': (boolean) Is the user still using their unmodified default index.html?
+            'favicon': (string) a url to an image representing the user
+            },
+        ...
+        ]
+    'live_user_count': (number) count of live users (those who have changed their index.html)
+    'active_user_count': (number) count of currently logged in users
+    'generated_at': (string) the time this JSON was generated in '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' format.
+    'generated_at_msec': (number) the time this JSON was generated, in milliseconds since the epoch.
+    'uptime': (string) output of `uptime -p`
+
+}
+Usage: stats.py > /var/www/html/tilde.json
+"""
+
+import datetime
 import json
-from functools import partial
+import os
-from os import listdir
+import pwd
-from os.path import getmtime, join
+import re
-from datetime import datetime
+import subprocess
-from sh import find, uptime, who, sort, wc, cut
-from tildetown.util import slurp, thread, p
 
-# this script emits json on standard out that has information about tilde.town
+SYSTEM_USERS = ['wiki', 'root', 'ubuntu', 'nate', 'nobody']
-# users. It denotes who has not updated their page from the default. It also
+DEFAULT_HTML_FILENAME = "/etc/skel/public_html/index.html"
-# reports the time this script was run. The user list is sorted by public_html update time.
+title_re = re.compile(r'<title[^>]*>(.*)</title>', re.DOTALL)
 
-SYSTEM_USERS = ['wiki', 'root', 'ubuntu', 'nate']
+def active_user_count():
+    """Return the count of unique usernames logged in."""
+    return len(set(line.split()[0] for line in
+        subprocess.check_output(
+            ["who"], universal_newlines=True).splitlines()))
 
-DEFAULT_HTML = slurp("/etc/skel/public_html/index.html")
+def get_title(indexhtml):
+    """Given an html file, return the content of its <title>"""
+    with open(indexhtml, 'rt', errors='ignore') as fp:
+        title = title_re.search(fp.read())
+    if title:
+        return title.group(1)
 
-username_to_html_path = lambda u: "/home/{}/public_html".format(u)
+def get_users():
+    """Generate tuples of the form (username, homedir) for all normal
+    users on this system.
 
-def default_p(username):
+    """
-    return DEFAULT_HTML == slurp(join(username_to_html_path(username), "index.html"))
+    return ((p.pw_name, p.pw_dir) for p in pwd.getpwall() if
+            p.pw_uid >= 1000 and
+            p.pw_shell != '/bin/false' and
+            p.pw_name not in SYSTEM_USERS)
 
-def bounded_find(path):
+def most_recent_within(path):
-    # find might return 1 but still have worked fine.
+    """Return the most recent timestamp among all files within path, 3
-    return find(path, "-maxdepth", "3", _ok_code=[0,1])
+    levels deep.
+    """
+    return max(modified_times(path, maxdepth=3))
 
-def get_active_user_count():
+def modified_times(path, maxdepth=None):
-    return int(wc(sort(cut(who(), "-d", " ", "-f1"), "-u"), "-l"))
+    """Walk the directories in path, generating timestamps for all
+    files.
+    """
+    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
+        if maxdepth and len(root[len(path):].split(os.sep)) == maxdepth:
+            dirs.clear()
+        for f in files:
+            try:
+                yield os.path.getmtime(os.path.join(root, f))
+            except (FileNotFoundError, PermissionError):
+                pass
 
-def guarded_mtime(path):
+def tdp_user(username, homedir):
-    try:
+    """Given a unix username, and their home directory, return a TDP format
-        return getmtime(path.rstrip())
+    dict with information about that user.
-    except Exception as _:
-        return 0
 
-def modify_time(username):
+    """
-    files_to_mtimes = partial(map, guarded_mtime)
+    public_html = os.path.join(homedir, 'public_html')
-    return thread(username,
+    index_html = os.path.join(public_html, 'index.html')
-                  username_to_html_path,
+    if os.path.exists(index_html):
-                  bounded_find,
+        return {
-                  files_to_mtimes,
+            'username': username,
-                  list,
+            'title': get_title(index_html),
-                  max)
+            'mtime': int(most_recent_within(public_html) * 1000),
+            # tilde.town extensions and backward compatibility
+            'favicon': 'TODO',
+            'default': subprocess.call(
+                ['diff', '-q', DEFAULT_HTML_FILENAME, index_html],
+                stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL) == 0,
+            }
+    else:
+        return {
+            'username': username,
+            'default': False
+            }
 
-def sort_user_list(usernames):
+def tdp():
-    return sorted(usernames, key=modify_time)
+    now = datetime.datetime.now()
+    users = sorted(
+        (tdp_user(u, h) for u, h in get_users()),
+        key=lambda x:x['mtime'],
+        reverse=True)
 
-def user_generator():
+    # TDP format data
-    ignore_system_users = lambda un: un not in SYSTEM_USERS
+    data = {
-    return filter(ignore_system_users, listdir("/home"))
+        'name': 'tilde.town',
+        'url': 'http://tilde.town',
+        'signup_url': 'http://goo.gl/forms/8IvQFTDjlo',
+        'want_users': True,
+        'admin_email': 'nks@lambdaphil.es',
+        'description': " ".join(l.strip() for l in """
+            an intentional digital community for creating and sharing works of
+            art, educating peers, and technological anachronism. we are a
+            completely non-commercial, donation supported, and committed to
+            rejecting false technological progress in favor of empathy and
+            sustainable computing.
+            """.splitlines()),
+        'user_count': len(users),
+        'users': users,
+        }
 
-def get_user_data():
+    # tilde.town extensions and backward compatibility
-    username_to_data = lambda u: {'username': u,
+    data.update({
-                                  'default': default_p(u),
+        'active_user_count': active_user_count(),
-                                  'favicon':'TODO'}
+        'generated_at': now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'),
-    live_p = lambda user: not user['default']
+        'generated_at_msec': int(now.timestamp() * 1000),
+        'uptime': subprocess.check_output(['uptime', '-p'], universal_newlines=True),
+        'live_user_count': sum(1 for x in data['users'] if not x['default']),
+        })
 
-    all_users = thread(user_generator(),
-                       sort_user_list,
-                       reversed,
-                       partial(map, username_to_data),
-                       list)
-
-    live_users = list(filter(live_p, all_users))
-
-    active_user_count = get_active_user_count()
-
-    return {'all_users': all_users,
-            'num_users': len(all_users),
-            'num_live_users': len(live_users),
-            'active_user_count': active_user_count,
-            'live_users': live_users,}
-
-def get_data():
-    user_data = get_user_data()
-    data = {'generated_at': datetime.now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'),
-            'site_name': 'tilde.town',
-            'site_url': 'http://tilde.town',
-            'uptime': str(uptime('-p')).rstrip(),}
-
-    data.update(user_data)
     return data
 
+def main():
+    print(json.dumps(tdp(), sort_keys=True, indent=2))
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    print(json.dumps(get_data()))
+    raise SystemExit(main())

tildetown/templates/frontpage.html

@@ -0,0 +1,381 @@
+<html>
+    <head>
+        <title>welcome to tilde town!</title>
+<meta charset="utf-8">
+        <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" />
+        <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
+    </head>
+    <body>
+      <h1 style="text-align:center">tilde.town</h1>
+      <h3 style="text-align:center"><em>is a small unix server made for sharing</em></h3>
+      <p style="text-align:center">
+        <a href="/~wiki/faq.html">faq</a>
+        | <a href="/guestbook">sign our guestbook</a>
+        | <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/8IvQFTDjlo">signup</a>
+        | <a href="/~wiki/conduct.html">code of conduct</a>
+        | <a href="/helpdesk">file help ticket</a>
+        | <a href="https://www.patreon.com/nathanielksmith">donate</a>
+        | <a href="/~wiki">wiki</a>
+      </p>
+<marquee behavior="alternate"><strong>~*~*~* {{active_user_count}} townies active right now *~*~*~</strong></marquee>
+      <table width="100%">
+        <tr>
+          <td valign="top" width="20%">
+            <h3>our esteemed users </h3>
+            <sub>({{live_user_count}} / {{user_count}} shown)</sub><br>
+            <sub>generated at {{generated_at}}</sub><br>
+            <sub>sorted by recent changes</sub><br>
+
+            <ul>
+              {{#users}}
+                {{^default}}
+                  <li>
+                    <a href="/~{{username}}">{{username}}</a>
+                  </li>
+                {{/default}}
+              {{/users}}
+            </ul>
+            <a href="/users.html">full user list</a>
+          </td>
+          <td valign="top" width="40%">
+            <p>this site is an intentional digital community for creating and
+            sharing works of art, educating peers, and technological
+            anachronism. we are a completely
+            non-commercial, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/nathanielksmith?ty=h">donation supported</a>, and
+            committed to rejecting false technological progress in favor of
+            empathy and sustainable computing.</p>
+
+            <h3>stuff you can do here</h3>
+            <ul>
+              <li>geocities style hosting</li>
+              <li>internal irc network</li>
+              <li>private usenet constellation</li>
+              <li>internal mail</li>
+              <li>command line / unix tutelage</li>
+              <li>make ascii art</li>
+              <li>host twitter bots</li>
+              <li>participate in our <a href="https://twitter.com/tildetown">communal twitter</a></li>
+              <li>generate random poetry <em>(under construction)</em></li>
+            </ul>
+
+            <a style="text-decoration:none" href="/cgi/random">
+            <pre title="go to a random page">
+
+ |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
+ |                         !                        /\    |  X  |
+ |                         !                       //\\   | / \ |
+ |      @@@                ! |~~~~~~~~~~~~~|      ///\\\  |/   \|
+ |     @@@@@              /i\|=============|     ////\\\\ |\   /|
+ |      @@@              /(i)\====== == ===|    /////\\\\\| \ / |
+ |                      /((i))\============|   //////\\\\\\  X  |
+ |                      |% % %|=== ===== ==|   I||||||||||I / \ |
+ |                      |% % %|====== =====|   I||||||||||I/   \|
+ |:::                   |% # %|============|   I||||||||||I\   /|
+ |:::                   |% % %|= ====== ===|   I||||||||||I \ / |
+ |:::                   |% % #|==== ==+++++++++++++|||||||I  X  |
+ |:::HHHHHHHHHHHH       |% % %|=======! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I / \ |
+ |:::HHHHHH HHHHH       |% # %|= =====! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I/   \|
+ |:::HHHHHHHHHHHH       |# % %|=== ===! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I\   /|
+ |:::HHH HHHHHHHH       |% % %|=======! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I \ / |
+ |:::HHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT % #|== = ==! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I  X  |
+ |:::HHHHHHI [] [] [] [] I # #|=======! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I / \ |
+ |::: HHHHHI [] [] [] [] I % %|====  =! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I/   \|
+ |:::HHHH HI [] [] [] [] I # %|== ====! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I\   /|
+ |:::HHHHHHI [] [] [] [] I % %|=======! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I \ / |
+ |:::HHHHHHI [] [] [] [] I % #|=== = =! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I  X  |
+ |:::HH HHHI [] [] [] [] I % #| ======! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I / \ |
+ |:::HHHHHHI [] [] [] [] I # #|= = ===! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I/   \|
+ |:::HHHHH I [] [] [] [] I % %|==== ==! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I\   /|
+ |:::HHHHHHI [] [] [] [] I % #|=======! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I \ / |
+ |:::HHHHHHI [] [] [] [] I # #|= =====! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I  X  |
+ |:::H HHHHI [] [] [] [] I # #|=== = =! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I / \ |
+ |:::HHHHHHI [] [] [] [] I # #|=======! ! ! ! ! ! !|||||||I/   \|
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+              
+    o  | |    |                               
+_|_    | |  __|   _  _|_  __           _  _   
+ |  |  |/  /  |  |/   |  /  \_|  |  |_/ |/ |  
+ |_/|_/|__/\_/|_/|__/o|_/\__/  \/ \/    |  |_/
+              </pre>
+            </a>
+            <hr>
+<pre>
+orators, singers, musicians to come!
+ She will break it to you better than I can.
+ Saturn expelled his father, and seized his throne
+-- I wish our opinions were the same.
+ Ere departing fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets
+ Emma soon recollected, and understood him
+
+--'''' My dear papa, he is three-and-twenty.
+ I hope time has not made you less willing to pardon.
+; Nay-be calm, for I am so: Does it burn?
+ She will break it to you better than I can.
+ play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!
+ She continued to look back, but in vain
+
+ It is necessary and beside the large sort is puff.
+; she is living in dread of the visit.
+ Year of comets and meteors transient and strange
+;'' remember that I am here.-- Mr.
+ She will break it to you better than I can.
+; and Emma was quite in charity with him.
+
+ It is a mere nothing after all
+ The doors of the two rooms were just opposite each other.
+ She will break it to you better than I can.
+ I shall just go round by Mrs. Cole 's
+ Here is realization, Here is a man tallied
+ Even pleasure, you know, is fatiguing
+
+ Keep your raptures for Harriet 's face.
+ Ere departing fade from my eyes your forests of bayonets
+ For to one side she leans, Then back she sways
+ It soon appeared that London was not the place for her.
+ Perhaps they had the figure of a winged horse on the prow
+ She will break it to you better than I can.
+
+ She will break it to you better than I can.
+ To conclude, I announce what comes after me.
+; nothing delineated or distinguished.
+ Excelsior Who has gone farthest?
+ To girlhood, boyhood look, the teacher and the school.
+`` How I could so long a time be fancying myself!
+
+`` Yes, sometimes he can.'' Do you mean with regard to this letter?''
+ Any nonsense will serve. the flesh over and over!
+ Eleves, I salute you!`` I not aware!'
+</pre>
+<hr>
+        <pre>
+ Have you guess 'd you yourself would not continue?
+ The wanderer would not heed me
+`` He told me at parting, that he should soon write
+ Mr. Elton looked all happiness at this proposition
+ what is it to us what the rest do or think?
+ I doubted it more the next day on Box Hill
+
+ Come thou, arise from the ground unto the place yonder
+ One was the son of Mars, and was killed before Troy
+ He had done his duty and could return to his son.
+ I never saw any thing so outree!
+; woods, together with mountains, are on fire.
+`` He told me at parting, that he should soon write
+
+`` He told me at parting, that he should soon write
+; and, abhorring the light, they fly { abroad} by night.
+ Can not you guess what this parcel holds?''
+ And these things I see suddenly, what mean they?
+ And you, paid to defile the People
+ Very strongly may be sincerely fainting.
+
+ she cried with a most open eagerness
+`` He told me at parting, that he should soon write
+ Let me hear from you without delay
+ By him she was put in mind of what she might do
+; but Emma 's countenance was as steady as her words.
+ Dear Miss Woodhouse, do advise me.''
+
+ It was certainly ‘barbara’ in the eyes of a Greek
+ One can not creep upon a journey
+ One was the son of Mars, and was killed before Troy
+`` He told me at parting, that he should soon write
+[ 77 and struck the guilty{ draught} from his mouth.
+; The golden sun of June declines, It has not caught her eye.
+
+ Clarke translates ‘miseri senis ore,
+: naught there is Save body, having property of touch.
+ Alas poor boy, he will never be better,
+; but if he wished to do it, it might be done.
+`` He told me at parting, that he should soon write
+ One was the son of Mars, and was killed before Troy
+
+ I knew who it came from. The virgin shrieks aloud
+ To feel the presence of a brave commanding officer But she was always right.
+ I 'd rather you would.'' This was a river of Troy
+</pre>
+          </td>
+          <td valign="top" width="40%">
+            <h3>news</h3>
+
+            <h4>Systems status</h4>
+            <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 &lt;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, <a href="/~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>,
+          look at some user pages, and <a
+          href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FSv_-gEU9LDy0b5gL8xm23d5QomMHIIstgr_fL5GFmg/viewform?c=0&w=1">sign
+          up!</a>. Everyone is welcome here regardless of skill level and if
+        making SSH keys is a little scary, that's okay. Reach out to <a
+        href="https://twitter.com/tildetown">for help</a>.
+            </p>
+            <p>
+            <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. <a href="/~insom">~insom</a>, <a href="/~krowbar">~krowbar</a>, and <a href="/~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>
+                  <a href="/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 <a href="/cgi/random">/cgi/random</a>).
+                </li>
+              </ul>
+              as always, tilde.town is a place for html and feels. feels run
+              strong and well today. come say hi!
+            </p>
+            <p><sub><em>Sun Jul 26 18:01:58 PDT 2015</em></sub></p>
+            <h4>new homepage design</h4>
+            <p><sub><em>Sun Jul 26 18:01:58 PDT 2015</em></sub></p>
+            <p>
+              <a href="/~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 <a href="/~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
+                                                                             href="http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/276">CVE 2015-0235</a>.
+              data.tilde.town (our poetry server) has also been patched and restated. Sorry
+              for any inconvenience!</p>
+            
+            <h4>lots of people</h4>
+            <p><sub><em>Thu Jan  1 07:37:16 UTC 2015</em></sub></p>
+            <p>we have ~370 users. isn't that wild?</p>
+            
+            <h4>Scheduled Downtime Tonight</h4>
+            <p><sub><em>Wed Nov 26 21:19:12 UTC 2014</em></sub></p>
+            
+            <p>To accommodate our growing user base, there will be a server resize/reboot
+              tonight (Pacific time). Sadly I cannot give an exact time as I still don't have
+              internet at my new place and will have to opportunistically find some to
+              execute this upgrade.</p>
+            <p>The server should only be down for a few minutes, but this will terminate
+              any running applications (like tmux/screen/irssi). Any files open in an editor
+              should be preserved by a swap file but you still may want to save and close
+              things in the next several hours.</p>
+            <p>Also, this upgrade means that tilde.town is no longer an essentially free
+              project, so I may put up something for donations soon.</p>
+            
+            <h4>100+ users party report</h4>
+            <p><sub><em>Sun Nov  9 23:07:08 UTC 2014</em></sub></em>
+<p>tilde.town now has 102 users. We crossed into three digits last night and
+  lots of townies hung out in irc to celebrate. Some new features even
+  launched!</p>
+
+<ul>
+  <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 <a href="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, <a href="http://tilde.town/~sanqui">~sanqui</a>)</li>
+  <li>a <a href="http://tilde.town/~wiki">git-based wiki</a> that all townies can edit (thanks for the help, <a href="http://tilde.town/~datagrok">~datagrok</a>)</li>
+  <li>an IRC bot (thanks, <a href="http://tilde.town/~selfsame">~selfsame</a>) that plays numberwang</li>
+  <li>even moar learnings up on the page of <a href="http://tilde.town/~shanx">~shanx</a></li>
+  <li>general good feels</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>80 users!</h4>
+<p><sub><em>Wed Oct 29 18:19:45 UTC 2014</em></sub></em>
+
+<p>tilde.town just added its 80th user. Welcome! Some folks have been having
+  trouble with ssh public keys. Remember, public keys are really confusing if you
+  aren't too familiar with them, and there is no judgement if you can't
+  immediately get them to work. Feel free to tweet at <a
+                                                         href="https://twitter.com/tildetown">@tildetown</a> or send an email to <a
+                                                                                                                                    href="mailto:nks@lambdaphil.es">~vilmibm</a> if you'd like some help.</p>
+
+</p>
+
+<h4>60 users</h4>
+<p><sub><em>Sat Oct 25 19:37:47 UTC 2014</em></sub></em>
+<p>tilde.town is up to 60 users. This is lovely! It is also only a tenth of our
+  planned total user capacity, so if you are interested in a tilde* account we'd
+  love to have you. You can even submit a user request with a fancy form now!</p>
+
+<p>
+  <strong><a href="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.
+</p>
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