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This article is about the actual mainpage. For /main, see /main.

Main Page in 2023

Pika City at X: 0, Y: 92, founded on January 3rd, 2020

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

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

/ is the world that everyone first sees upon joining OWOT.

Square of Publicity

At X: 0, Y: 0 is the Square of Publicity. It is a 2x2 chunk with a space to type in the center, with the rest being member-protected. The member-protected part hosts various links and scripts. 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.

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

Many other things one may see on / are counters, crawlers, timers, spam, among other things.

Counters

Usually above or below the Square of Publicity are counter scripts, 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 rap due to being eyesores or generally annoying.

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 which has lasted the longest amount of time out of all of them. It crawls the internet, sorting links into different domains and topics. Many say it seeks to download the internet.

Timers

Usually around Square of Publicity are timer scripts which tell you how long until the day ends, how long until the week ends, month, year, etc.

Spam

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

Image Pastes

There's commonly a lot of images being pasted at times. A wide variety of images are pasted, usually logos, face reveals, and stock images. Sometimes CP is pasted, which has led to colors being turned off several times.