Hi #weirdweboctober friends. Your work this year was so fun and inspiring! We're honored that OP could assist in such wild webweaving. We've been working on something we call the #OPMultiPass, which is like a mixtape for websites. #SmallWeb #personalweb #weirdweb #indieweb

Congrats on another fantastic #weirdweboctober to all the webweavers out there. If you wake up next week, sad that you won't have new sites to see, don't despair. We will post a gift we've been working on for the WWO community on Monday.

#weirdweboctober friends! We here at Octothorpes love all the great sites you've made, and have made you a gift to help people find and enjoy them. Meet the Explore page > octothorp.es/explore Note the featured shortcut for WWO and how every configuration produces an #RSS feed.

Completed our API refactor, so all the examples in our docs docs.octothorp.es/op-api/ that were broken are no longer broken! Will document in a post next week for anyone interested in #sparql or #rdf or #mistakes

If you're using #octothorpes to follow #weirdweboctober via RSS, you may have noticed the RSS feeds weren't linking to sites properly. This was a casualty of our API refactor, but it should be fixed now. API improvements about to be deployed as well.

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

@ciccarello.me We got both your registration requests, and cleared your site already, but our emails to the address you provided are bouncing. You can find your site listed at octothorp.es/domains

Welcome back #weirdweboctober docs.octothorp.es/blog/welcome...

Wooo! Happy #weirdweboctober everybody! Love to see all these registrations come in. We'll be making a few quality of life updates and then publishing some fun tools later this month to surf the weeeeird web.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Hold tight folks looks like our DB server is having an outage. #octothorpes Might have happened while I was actively writing a grant to support stronger infrastructure, among other things. #irony #foss

Who's preparing for #weirdweboctober around here??

Just in time for #weirdweboctober, we've got a new quickstart video for anyone interested in trying out #octothorpes on their site. www.youtube.com/watch?v=muq5...

WEIRD. WEB. OCTOBER!!!

We have blogged about #secondPersonBirds and you should too octothorpes.bearblog.dev/you-are-humm...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

We now have an official dev blog on the docs site. First entry is a roundup of all the things we've added in our first proper release. That includes #webrings, a powerful #api, multi-site rss feeds, and more. Check it out at docs.octothorp.es/blog/point-o...

@elvaqueero.bsky.social saw your zine about wanting to post with friends without being stuck on platforms at Secret Room in Portland. You might like what we do. docs.octothorp.es/about

OP is based on the idea that the web can be its own platform, so this really resonates. @scripting.com you might be interested to know we have a WP plugin that lets you use hashtags (and many other API features) with Wordpress out of the box: docs.octothorp.es/quickstart/#...

Just added our first item to a part of our docs we're calling "The Old Ways" We start with the humble #blogroll aka #freindspage or #linklists Using OP, you can easily turn your list of links into an RSS feed or JSON source docs.octothorp.es/blogrolls/

On #htmlday, we are excited to announce our first stable version of Octothorpe Protocol, v0.5. With it comes a flexible API, self-managed #webrings, #RSS for basically everything, a way to turn your tags into hashtags without changing your html, and a new docs site. docs.octothorp.es #octothorpes

#️⃣ Posts with hashtags automatically get linked up via the @octothorpes.bsky.social protocol! Pretty cool.

haven't been posting because fak have we been building. first version release coming s o o o n

take a minute to tell them to stop the passport fuckery www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

@niiiiim.bsky.social here with an account of teaching a room full of people to make art sites with basic HTML in the former back room of a Lady Footlocker in 2025. ideastore.dev/blog/The-Rad-Web #indieweb #webart #ladyfootlocker #octothorpes

If you are on #bearblog please help us increase the number of posts tagged #cats tyvm bearblog.octothorp.es/~/cats also of note bearblog.octothorp.es/~/snowapple-...

hate to be launching features in the middle of coups. stop the coups. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJju...

Signal Boost: All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive Let people know, download your own copies. Don't let this digital book burn continue. #Feds #Health #WHO #CDC #AMA #USPHS #FDA #NIH #NCHS #PCORI

if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

You can use hashtags on your Bear Blog now. octothorpes.bearblog.dev/you-can-use-... #hashtags #bearblog #octothorpes #indieweb

Important milestone: we finally have multiple results for #cats on the main #octothorpe server 🐈‍⬛ octothorp.es/~/cats

we support this

do you remember stumbleupon? anyway, I made a site that lists all of the recommendations that I've ever received to listen/watch/etc. since 2012. reccs.greg.technology there's 1559 reccs in there, and it will keep growing. the whole idea is that I don't have to store them away anymore! yay. xx

kinda feel like the Bsky team won't listen to trans users about this, so I'll say it as a Cis Person: I don't want Jesse Singal on here spreading his lying hateful "just asking questions" bullshit. he is not acting in good faith, he causes active harm, and he adds nothing worthwhile to this platform

So. Good. Excellent resources here.

We finally have a decent about page! octothorp.es/about #hashtags #octothorpes #explainyourself

as a project making tools for webrings, we love seeing new webrings

We're already huge fans of @evandahm.bsky.social so finding out he's talking about the importance of the open internet is just 🤌.

i learned from neopets and it's all the backbone you need to get started, seriously. some of it is outdated by now (mainly just the music thing), but it's the plainest way to get an understanding of how HTML works www.neopets.com/help/html1.p...

It should have been the easiest fucking sell in the world! We all grew up on the science fiction stories of robot butlers and computers that sass you back! Literally the only thing required to be a success should have been "don't be a fucking creep and don't hit the uncanny valley"!

I am a big supporter of personal websites, and have up multiple ones if you're ever bored! My ever-growing archive of work I've done mollielpatterson.com My tracker for new Genesis / Mega Drive games md.restartmag.com My Persona fansite up since 1998 persona.restartmag.com

rockpapersiren.neocities.org fo me :)))

Do it! Make that personal site! put #octothorpes on it to make friends! no platforms no masters

Stoked to announce our first new core feature since we launched: a webring web component! Yr automatically on a #webring if you’re using #octothorpes, and now each ring will host a web component to let you show it. See it in action here demo.ideastore.dev/webring-comp... #webrings #webcomponents

Everyone looks older on LinkedIn, it's the website version of the beach that makes you old.

mall but exciting (to us) milestone -- we've started on the first two items on our current roadmap -- Harmonizers and a web component for easily embedding a Web Ring navigator on your page. github.com/orgs/stucco-... and github.com/orgs/stucco-...