I’m one of the devs behind Octothorpes and we just launched a way to save and share collections of sites you find with Octothorpes into a thing we’re calling MultiPass. We’re hoping it can be like a mixtape for websites. And you can put them in a gif. Like, if you have the gif, you have the collection, and you can just drop it on the Explore page. Here’s the first one, which collects all the #weirdweboctober sites for 2025. Just launched a new toy built on Octothorpes called MultiPass that’s like a mixtape for websites. Here’s a short demo MultiPass early demo – Tapes and a full explainer with MultiPasses you can try: Introducing the OP MultiPass
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Anyone here made any? Keen for some inspiration myself before I make any myself
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Also, is it possible to embed the link to the multipass in clicking on the gif? Or can you not stuff it into the URL?
Do you mean having a link to the search embedded in the gif, or a link at the end of the process of making the gif to the search itself? If you mean the first one, we can add the url in the data in the gif, but you can’t embed a “go to hyperlink” action in a gif, unfortunately. There IS an deprecated “user input” flag which I’d love to make work, so maybe one day. If you want the url for the search that the MultiPass represents, you can just copy the url at the time of creation. ie https://octothorp.es/explore?o=weirdweboctober&limit=50&when=recent
Yeah, it was the URL itself I was interested in. I imagine it might be cool UI for webmasters to be like “click on the gif for the mixtape"
"Leeloo Dallas mul-ti-pass. Mul-ti-pass.
“Yeah, multipass, she knows it’s a multipass. Leeloo Dallas. This is my wife.”
I second this.
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Cool. Since we don’t host the image, the best we can do for making the link is to give you a clear thing to copy that lets you make it a link to the results on your own site. However we are also very close to releasing a web component for a MultiPass reader that you can drop in to any site that will output the results right then and there. Would you use something like that?
Ok, and thinking about it more… we could also make a web component that does what you’re saying – you’d put it on your page like <octo-multipass src="local-path-to-the-multipass.gif"></octo-multipass> and when you click it it outputs the results on your page.
Honestly, not super sure WHAT I was thinking, it is more of just a general UX preference where clicking on things is easier than right-click, save us, then dragging it onto a box.
I may have also been misunderstanding the point of the project though, if it is intended to be for ease of sending though discord/WhatsApp/Whatevers
The component sounds super neat though
This kind of reminds me of the Pico-8 cartridges, which are games in the form of a PNG image that contain the game’s code within them. Making a “webloader” of sorts would make these mixtapes sort of collectible in the same way, and means that you could probably add your favorites to share on a page of your website if you wanted.
Not sure if that’s the direction you wanted to go, but it’s a thought. I haven’t yet implemented Octothorpes on my site (I’m still deciding if I want to add them to my main site, blog, or both), but I just wanted to say that I’ve really been enjoying the new ideas and projects you’ve been coming out with. This sort of experimental spirit is exactly what I love to see from the small web!
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Yes! Totally. I discovered the Pico-8 cartridges while MultiPasses were underway, and it was a big boost of inspiration. Also proof that we could do this in .pngs in the future too. The web component I’m working should work just like that and have the “just click on the gif” option as requested here. It’s working, I just need to review the overall system before pushing it live. Should have a prototype next week.
And thank you! that’s really nice to hear. This community is very inspiring to both me and Nik, the other dev on OP.
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