Hello. You now have a user account on the http://tilde.club world wide web server. This is the dumbest thing I have ever done. Welcome! An email with your password and username should have arrived by now. It is INCREDIBLY INCREDIBLY LIKELY that it went into your spam folder. It will have come from root@tilde.club. If it didn't arrive you can send me an email and tell me so. I don't mind. Give it a couple hours. Who am I? I am the system administrator, Paul Ford. Like any system administrator, I will be slow to respond, will get everything wrong, and will act imperiously while never acknowledging wrongdoing. Consider this part of your authentic tilde.club experience! NEW USER TUTORIAL tilde.club is just a tiny tiny server running linux on the amazon cloud. That is all it is. Using tilde.club requires you to understand shells and ssh. If you don't know about those things, consider this a challenge and opportunity to learn! This concludes the tutorial. IMPORTANT NOTES Since I've now saddled myself in this clown rodeo, a few notes: - No drama. What constitutes drama? There is a Mary J. Blige song called "No More Drama." If Mary J. Blige would think it was drama, it is drama. - vim AND emacs are installed, use the one that is right for you. See "No drama," above. - Chat with anyone you want using the talk command (ytalk seems to have gone missing from the Internet!). Just amuse yourself by pinging people and saying stuff at random. Don't be shy. If they bail or don't reply no worries. This is a unix server. The only people who want free accounts on unix servers are awesome cool loving generous nerds. - If you don't want to chat there's a command that lets you indicate that. See if you can remember that command! - This is a guilt-free project and total disaster is ALWAYS a possible outcome. I'll cover costs up to about $100 a month. I doubt I'll let more than a hundred or two hundred people on the system because randos ruin. There are a hundred people now. - This thing is a de-facto whitey sausagefest so everyone be actively, aggressively cool and sweet and remember that the only binary that's real is the one that we use on our microchips. MY SACRED VOWS TO YOU I will do my best to do the following things: 1) I will make a weekly backup of the public_html directories so when some teen in Estonia decides to hack in and ruin everything we can bring up a new server and limp back to life. 2) I won't shut things down without a month of warning and once it's shut down I'll make sure a file with all the public_html directories is uploaded to archive.org. 3) If any community forms at all (DUBIOUS BUT SURPRISE ME) I promise I won't blow up the community without, like, first pointing everyone to some free IRC channel or something. Thanks, Paul