We made hashtags you can use on regular websites. I hope you like them!

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Hi Webweavers!

I’m writing to introduce something I helped build that I’m hoping you’ll find useful and fun – Octothorpes.

Octothorpes are hashtags that work on regular websites. So you can share tags with friends across all your sites. They work on totally static sites, Neocities included. As long as you can edit the <head> of your site, they should work. If you’re on Bear blog, you can use them without even having to register.

The system they run on is called Octothorpe Protocol, or just OP. OP can do a lot of social web stuff with basic html, like make and join webrings, build dynamic blog rolls, or make backlinks. And you can subscribe to almost everything you can do with OP via RSS.

Octothorpes has been live for about a year, so you may have seen them out in the wild before, especially if you were part of Weird Web October. But we just released our first stable version, which added a lot of the new fun stuff, like webrings.

This is a 100% volunteer, open-source project right now – we just want to build something useful that could contribute to the human-made internet we love. We’re building our roadmap to 1.0 right now, so we’re all ears if you have suggestions.

32-Bit Cafe and the cool sites y’all make are a huge inspiration to us!

Ním

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oh yippee!! i thought octothorpes were such a cool idea in weird web october last year, i’m so glad you’ve done more stuff with them! congrats on the release :pixelcat2:

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This is a really fascinating project!

This feels like a modern evolution of webrings which has been sorely needed in this day and age.

There’s still a bit I need to absorb but I’ll be spreading the word and participating that’s for sure.

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Wow it feels good to get a “yippee!” Thank you. Cool that you were part of Weird Web October. We really loved it last year and hope we can help make it fun again if it happens again this year. Just reached out to Jay about it.

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Thanks! Happy to answer any questions if you have them. I’m planning to make a super short “here’s how to get started” video soon too if that’s helpful.

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I’m interested in giving this a shot, although I’m not sure which tags or pages of mine to start with.

Are you using anything in particular as spam prevention? Is there any way for a moderator to remove a mis-used tag/page, or is this working on the honor system for now?

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