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== List of Posts ==

'''''*Note: Yagton was [[Fernsy|Fern's]] username before she transitioned.'''''

'''''<big>*[[Note: Yagton was]] [[Fernsy|Fern's]] [[username before she transitioned.]]</big>'''''

=== August 2023 ===

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@∮* Mr. 1052 makes a world showcasing a funny script made by an anonymous user where you can drag any character on the canvas around.

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|'''December 4th, 2023'''

|Due to the abundance of university finals, '''FP''' is forced to take a break from development work until December 15th, which includes every project. Essential maintenance / work will still occur during this period! Due to this, '''Mr.Guy''' has been elected as the '''daily screenshotter''' for the next 11 days.

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@∮* Mr. 1052 creates a small world featuring a snow-filled town called "[Snowland](<nowiki>https://ourworldoftext.com/snowland</nowiki>)".

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'''hijklmnop2''''s world, [/three_3s](<nowiki>https://owot.me/three_3s</nowiki>), has been nominated as the '''124th World of the Day'''.

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|'''December 5th, 2023'''

|@s makes another pull request, this time adding SVG icons for the admin panel. <nowiki>https://github.com/system2k/NodeWorldOfText/pull/35</nowiki>

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FP is planning on repurposing the @Road Builder role to @Artist after multiple requests.<gallery mode="packed">

File:Road builder role.png

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The first of its kind, a feat that was believed to be impossible, @e_g. is officially the '''first person to reach 100,000 messages.''' This stupendous goal has taken him '''1038 days''', since February 1st, 2021, putting him at an average of ~96.3 messages per day. It's not over for message milestones for him, there is still one more mountain peak to be conquered, and that is surpassing @Gateway#8555's total message count of ''108,421'', across hundreds of people.

100,000th message: #⁠trash⁠

Congratulations for this amazing feat!

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|'''December 6th, 2023'''

|How to deal with spammers 101, by Mr.Guy.<gallery mode="packed">

File:How to deal with spammers.jpg

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|'''December 7th, 2023'''

|Let's wrap it up, ladies and gentlemen. FP meets the same fate as Viprin.<gallery mode="packed">

File:Fp shortage of content.jpg

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The Road Builder role is officially rebranded to @Artist! You may obtain this role by showing FP your art portfolio. The first users to get the role are Guest-1052, AndreiXYZ and Polonez.<gallery mode="packed">

File:Artist role.jpg

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|'''December 8th, 2023'''

|@kkostya shares a 3 hour timelapse of OWOT's spawn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV5-M9i5vNQ

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|'''December 9th, 2023'''

|The truth has been revealed...<gallery mode="packed">

File:Unicode is a scam.png

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@∮* Mr. 1052 creates an unofficial Discord server for [/main](<nowiki>https://owot.me/main</nowiki>).

<nowiki>https://discord.gg/NtmedumjT2</nowiki>

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'''FP''' finally bans '''Kingdoms.gg''' after a month of him harming this server.

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@> ✨ᗩＩ ⟨ 𝓐ndrei𝓧𝓨𝓩 🌌 ⟩ ◭⟁◮ designs a new center console for [/main](<nowiki>https://owot.me/main</nowiki>) based off meimei's SLC art for Christmas 2022.<gallery mode="packed">

File:Andrei christmas.png

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|'''December 10th, 2023'''

|The OWOT Discord server sets a new record for most streams at once, at 8.<gallery mode="packed">

File:8 streams-min.png

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[/ThePeriodicTable](<nowiki>https://owot.me/ThePeriodicTable</nowiki>), created by Pippin as a remaster of [/ptable](<<nowiki>https://owot.me/ptable</nowiki>), is featured as the '''125th World of the Day'''.<gallery mode="packed">

File:Periodic table.png

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|'''December 12th, 2023'''

|@! ! ass uses <code>comu</code> links to make interactive polls on [/public-vote](<nowiki>https://ourworldoftext.com/public-vote</nowiki>). "This reminds me of [Let's Settle This](<nowiki>https://neal.fun/lets-settle-this</nowiki>)" —AndreiXYZ<gallery mode="packed">

File:Interactive poll.jpg

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|'''December 13th, 2023'''

|FP has muffins for breakfast again, claims to be able to send a 97.5 exabyte CSV file containing the individual positions of the atoms in one of his muffins.<gallery mode="packed">

File:Fp muffin.png

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'''ACCOUNT BAN WAVE''' Guest-1052's account gets disabled for being underage, and Sabrina's account gets limited for doxxing someone she hated.

'''SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY (or don't, you know who you are )'''

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FP posts a cat image.<gallery mode="packed">

File:Fp cat image.png

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|'''December 14th, 2023'''

|@! ! ass creates [/mariana](<nowiki>https://owot.me/mariana</nowiki>), which contains 5 levels and is an unofficial sequel to '''yagton''''s world, [/cryptic](<nowiki>https://owot.me/cryptic</nowiki>).

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@kkostya shares some interesting stats from his crawler, including the most viewed worlds, the oldest worlds and the oldest chat messages.<gallery mode="packed">

File:Kkostya crawler 1.png

File:Kkostya crawler 2.png

File:Kkostya crawler 3.png

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InfraRaven drew some stuff at work.<gallery mode="packed">

File:Infra art 1.jpg

File:Infra art 2.jpg

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|'''December 15th, 2023'''

|@> ✨ᗩＩ ⟨ 𝓐ndrei𝓧𝓨𝓩 🌌 ⟩ ◭⟁◮ celebrates his birthday, turning 15 years old. FP joins in with twenty-five lousy cake muffins to celebrate and cherish this holy day.<gallery mode="packed">

File:Andrei birthday.png

File:Fp lousy muffins.png

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'''FP''' shares his Bytebeat melodies. ⁠

#owot⁠

<nowiki>https://2s4.me/public/bytebox/main.html</nowiki> <nowiki>https://dollchan.net/bytebeat/</nowiki>

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'''Mr.Guy''' shares a few of his ideas on how to improve Our World of Text.<blockquote>

# ''Remove chat'' The chat, being one of only two immediately interactable UI objects on the page, sets the tone for the site. The content of the chat inevitably seems to become an expression of the current state of owot, an observation that can have a profound effect on the enthusiasm a person develops early on. Text on the canvas could be from any time in the past, put there by anyone for any reason. This directly opposes the effects of staring at the chat; in that it forces you to reckon the type of users and ideas you can expect yourself to be immediately surrounded by when you're on the site. You can't simply scroll those users or their messages away: the chat is a constant, consistent with the people that inhabit it. Where the canvas is a symbol of creativity not limited by boundaries, so to does the chat oppose this in interactive functionality and social design. As it stands now, the front page's chat has evolved from the intended "pin board" usage where users discuss a world, into a whole platform for real time communication. I believe this is where the abuse is stemming from, and I propose that removing the chat would be a good first step to dismantle the toxic attitudes that attract troll behavior to the front page. It would be wise to test it first; there could be other ways to integrate the chat (only visible/usable by registered users, whitelist, slowmode, etc) that might have more positive effects.

# ''Redesign the SOP'' This is the first monument seen by any new user who joins the front page for the first time. Very much about this experience is left vague, and almost no direction is given besides the ratings and teleportation station. Thus one ends up requiring much stronger curiosity and attention span than the average person generally exercises in order to discover the purpose of anything beyond the unprotected areas around spawn. I think that the SOP should be bigger with a few short tips so that users can glean fundamental concepts that embody the adventure of discovering the front page and expressing oneself on it, and there should most likely be a graphic content warning. Links to coordinates 50 out in any direction on the top and bottom and both sides of the SOP would give users immediate incentive to branch out.

# ''Encourage registration'' Discouraging use of the site without an account will foster more users who feel like coming back and end up turning away low-effort attention seekers. This could be done by limiting features more harshly for unregistered users, including rate-limit, cell color, and ability to place links, while granting these features to any registered user. This would incentivize a more coherent community to form, and would aid in designing a more effective moderation system.

I'll continue this essay soon, I gotta go to work lmao</blockquote>'''.............'''

'''yagton''' makes a pull request adding support for Docker. <nowiki>https://github.com/system2k/NodeWorldOfText/pull/36</nowiki>

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FP's development freeze period has ended, his next immediate task for OWOT being implementing a long-press menu to select a region, copy a character, etc. so that poopman's mobile-friendly script won't be necessary.

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