/
/, commonly known as the front page, is the world shown when accessing OWOT's root directory—i.e., at the URL https://ourworldoftext.com/. It was created at 9:24 AM on 8 October, 2017, and has over 8.7 million views as of December 2024.
Square of Publicity
At the center of the / world (i.e., X: 0, Y: 0) is the Square of Publicity (SoP), also known as the Center Console. It is a section two tiles wide and two tiles tall with a space to type in the center, the rest being member-protected. The member-protected part hosts various links and scripts, as well as the WOTD. It's usually the first target of spam since almost everyone wants to type in it and it's the first thing one sees upon joining OWOT.
Worlds such as /center_console and //center_console_history exist to document the history of the Square of Publicity.
Ratings
At X: 3600, Y: 4500 is the Ratings poll. It is linked on the Square of Publicity and it hosts a selection of worlds that people are able to like or dislike. The world with the highest like to dislike ratio will be nominated WOTD.
Frontpage Status
At X: 1010, Y: 1010 you can see how many people are currently online and how many views the page has.
Other
Here are other things one may see on /:
Spam
/ is commonly subjected to various spam attacks, whether big or small.
Image pastes
There may be images being pasted at times. A wide variety of images are pasted, including logos, stock images, and face reveals. Very rarely, porn is pasted, which has led to colors being turned off for all users near spawn several times and colors being disabled on TOR nodes indefinitely.
Spawn pub
Usually below the Square of Publicity, you will find the spawn pub (sometimes replaced with VYN bar). However, there is no official interior.
Stickmen
Occasionally, you will see stickmen doing various activities such as talking or interacting with each other. These stickmen also often accompany ASCII artworks such as vehicles or buildings. Sometimes, people use the stickmen for roleplay, such as the Combined Military Brigade, VYN, Baumer, lime.owot, and nonaem's stickmen interacting with each other.
lime.radio
Around ten tiles away from the Square of Publicity, currently to the east, you will find lime.radio, a script that communicates with its clients via cmd commands. You can "tune into" the "radio" by running the script at its bottom right corner in your browser in an OWoT tab connected to the same world as the radio.
Crawlers
Rarely near Square of Publicity, crawler scripts are scripts that crawl a list of URLs. The most well-known one is at around x-3y3, which is a crawler script by yiff_plus which has lasted the longest amount of time out of all of them. It crawls the internet, sorting links into different domains and topics.
Progress bars
At yiff_plus' crawler is a progress bar script by JustAnOWOTUser which tells you how long until the week and month ends. It used to be below the Square of Publicity, but after measures were taken to deter this, it moved to the crawler.
Counters
Around early 2024, above or below the Square of Publicity were counter scripts, usually by Fernozzle, which host a steadily or logarithmically increasing number of something. The most common of these are "(user) has baked (number) of cupcakes" or "(user) has typed (number) times". Counters usually get a bad rep due to being eyesores or being generally annoying.