[kwlug-disc] tilde.club

[Chris Craig]

It's kinda nice to see a small community focused service, there are
certainly many other free website providers to choose from but they
tend to be pretty disconnected:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_web_hosting_services

I think heroku (a subsidiary of salesforce) is probaby the best
unix-like service, but again I don't think there's much of a community
feel.


On 17 October 2014 19:55, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 07:42:54PM -0400, William Park wrote:
>> I don't understand.  You get a shell account.  Then, what?
>
> I'm not sure anybody understands. Some of the stuff that happens:
>
> - People use old-skool chat programs like talk
> - People put up handcrafted webpages
> - People learn how to use vim (again)
> - People form these weird close-knit communities that will probably
>   last longer than the tilde.club server
> - People retrofit new technologies onto old things (there are a large
>   number of JSON APIs on tilde.club)
> - People putter for a bit and then get bored and move to the next
>   thing
> - People learn more about how the Internet is put together by learning
>   more about UNIX
> - People learn without feeling that they are stupid n00bs.
>
> This is as much social as it is technical.
>
> When I first got my freeshell account I tried to participate in the
> culture there. But it did not feel particularly rewarding, and some of
> the people were jerks, and I got bored of the lagtime, so I left.
> Maybe this is something different. I hope this is something different.
>
> Paul Ford's webpage at http://tilde.club/~ford is really enlightening.
>
> - Paul
>
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