Tildizens,

I’ve waited since 2014 for my tilde account and have had a lot of fun the past couple of days.

I noticed you are all a bunch of creative people with a knack for writing terribly crafted html that looks awesome. I also noticed that we are a community. So what good is a community if we cannot work on something together?

Now while you guys were living under a rock writing goofy shell scripts and honing your html 3.2 skills something terrible happened. It was called web 2.0 and it made everything go south very quickly. So I’m thinking how about we collectively go south the tilde way and do some of that user generated co creation nonsense that in the outside world ended with the russians tipping the US presidential elections?

So, here’s what I did.

I created an empty html file and made it world writeable. You can find it here:

cd /home/martijn/public_html/thepage/

and in your browser obviously:

https://tilde.club/~martijn/thepage/

All I am asking of you is to please edit that file and leave something there. A text, an image, a gif, a piece of javascript, an invisible html comment, a story, whatever. If you stumble upon something someone else did, you may rearange, enhance or add to it, as long as you do not remove it. If you find something offensive, please do remove it. Aside from that all standard ~ rules apply.

Still with me? Good! There’s one more thing:

To prevent people overwriting eachothers edits, I’ve created a locking system. Before you edit this file, please execute

ls -lt

in the thepage directory:

total 0 -rw-rw-rw-. 1 martijn club 0 Sep 20 10:38 index.html -rw-rw-rw-. 1 martijn club 0 Sep 20 10:35 index.lock

If the output looks like the above, where index.html is above index.lock because it’s modification time was more recent, there is no lock on the file and you can proceed to lock it by touching the index.lock file.

touch index.lock

Now if you ls -lt that directory again:

ls -lt total 0 -rw-rw-rw-. 1 martijn club 0 Sep 20 10:41 index.lock -rw-rw-rw-. 1 martijn club 0 Sep 20 10:38 index.html

You’ll see that you have successfully placed a lock. You can proceed to edit index.html. Once you are done and you save your changes, the modification date of index.html will be updated and the lock will be lifted automagically.

If you find index.html to be locked, don’t touch it and wait for it to be released, unless the lock is more than 20 minutes old. In that case, by all means ravage whatever the person who locked you out for too long was trying to do.

So, I’m in europe and if you are not, it’s highly likely that I will be asleep when you are reading this. The last thing I want is to wake up tomorow morning and find the same blank canvas I am leaving you now. I want to wake up and see something special, so please don’t disappoint me.

Also: I am open to discussions and suggestions as far as what thepage can be and what it should mean, but I would appreciate if we could find a place for these discussions on thepage itself. That is to say: we do not discuss thepage outside of thepage.

So unless I goofed up and you guys are totally unable to edit these files, don’t let me know if you have any questions, ask thepage. Also, if you enjoy this kind of thing please feel free to come back ocasionally and do some rearranging of whatever state thepage is in. I envision an ever growing and improving library of god knows what all crammed into the confines of a single html file.Help me see what that could look like.

Cheers!

~martijn