/

"Main world" redirects here. For /main, see /main.

/, commonly known as the front page or main 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 October 8th, 2017, and has over 8.7 million views as of February 18, 2025.

Member protected areas

Indestructible areas placed by FP or the multiple main world members.

Center Console/Square of Publicity

Main article: Center Console

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, with the rest being member-protected. The member-protected section hosts various links and scripts, as well as the WOTD. Upon page load, users on / are greeted with the Square of Publicity, making it a common spam target.

Worlds such as /center_console and /center_console_history have been created to document and archive the history of the Square of Publicity.

/center_console_history is a world created by AndreiXYZ to archive changes made to the SOP.

Ratings

Main article: World of the Day

At X: 3600, Y: 4500 is the Ratings poll. Also linked via the Square of Publicity, it hosts a selection of worlds users can like or dislike. The world with the highest like-to-dislike ratio may be nominated as WOTD, however, some users have raised concerns alleging that some worlds on the poll may be rigged or automated for or against their rating.

The WOTD ratings at X: 3600, Y: 4500, established on January 8, 2023, succeeding the WOTD poll

Frontpage Status

At X: 1010, Y: 1010, users can see how many total connections are currently active, as well as the page's total view count.

Miscellaneous content protected by frontpage members

Main article: Member

Text protected by mainpage members can be found scattered around spawn.

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  Protected by Tap20
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  Made by lime.owot, protected by Poopman
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  Made by Polonez, protected by Poopman

Common features

Some other things seen on / may include:

Spam

Main article: Spam

/ is commonly subjected to various spam attacks, whether big or small, in various forms.

Image pastes

Main article: Image Pasters

Finding images being pasted near spawn is somewhat common to see. A wide variety of images are pasted, including logos, stock images, and face reveals. Very rarely, pornographic images may be pasted, which has led to text colors being temporarily turned off for all users near spawn several times and colors being disabled on TOR nodes indefinitely.

Animations

Main article: Animated Scripts

Often located inside the Center Console.

Stickmen

Occasionally, stickmen doing various activities such as talking or interacting with each other may also be seen. 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.

Crawlers

Sometimes, near the Square of Publicity, crawler scripts, scripts that crawl a list of URLs, may be found. The most well-known example is found around X: 3 Y: 3, created by yiff_plus, remaining still active for the most extensive time of all previous scripts like it. It crawls various links across the internet, sorting crawled links by domain name.

Progress bars

Similar to crawlers, 'progress' bars may also be found at /. One notable example is a progress bar script by JustAnOWOTUser visualizing the time elapsed until the week and month ends. It was once found below the Square of Publicity, but after measures were taken to deter this, it moved nearby the crawler.

Counters

Around early 2024, above or below the Square of Publicity were 'counter' scripts, usually run by Fernozzle, hosted a linearly or logarithmically increasing number of an arbitrary unit or scale. The most common of these were "(user) has baked (number) of cupcakes" or "(user) has typed (number) times". Counters usually have a bad reputation due to being considered 'eyesores' or being annoyances to other users.

Notable art/landmarks

lime.radio(and other infrastructure by lime.owot)

lime.radio was a script that communicated with its clients via cmd commands located around ten tiles from the Square of Publicity. Users could "tune into" the "radio" by executing the JavaScript code linked on canvas in their browser in an OWoT tab connected to the same world as the radio.

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  lime radio
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  lime's radio in motion
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The Crawler

Created by 8811. It has existed since 2022 at the latest, and is still running as of 2025.

The Crawler in June 2025

Heey's Teleportation Subway

Main article: Heey's Teleportation Subway

Teleportation Subway at X: 111, Y: 888, founded on June 4th, 2018.

Pika City

A city located at Y:92. Pika City was founded by Tap20 on January 3rd, 2020 and has since become the largest OWOT city, thanks to the contribution of many users over the years.

Entirety of Pika City as of April 28th, 2025

Sylveon

Maintained for several weeks by the artist of the same name.

Gallery

The front page in 2023

OWOT timelapses

tbd

(i'll link mine when it accumulates enough screenshots)

Large screenshots

Main article: Large OWOT Screenshots

• Large Mainpage screenshots by FP
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  Mainpage snapshot by FP from April 9th, 2019. This image used to be accessible via www.ourworldoftext.com/static?file=6.
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  December 14th, 2021(4,000 tiles up and down). This image is accessible via https://ourworldoftext.com/static/files/img_1000_dec14-2021.png.
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  With color. The colorful scribbles were a script that would generate winding roads on the Mainpage. These roads have long since been deleted.