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Introduction to Our World of Text
Our World of Text (OWOT or OWoT) is a website that lets users type text anywhere in a grid. Users can choose the color of their text and visit other pages known as "worlds." In OWOT, all users start on the main page and can visit other worlds by adding the name of the world to the end of the URL after a slash, or by clicking a link in the Center Console or anywhere else on the main page.
OWOT was first launched on June 8, 2010, by the developer and creator of Your World of Text.[1] It was created as an alternative to Your World of Text that allows unrestricted scripting. In early August 2015, it was announced that OWOT would shut down on August 20th due to funding issues. Weeks after its original shutdown, control of the domain was handed to InfraRaven to start a revival of OWOT. The revival was based off the heavily modified YWOT source code from 2010 and featured a new menu design and a loading screen.
In 2016, a new version of OWOT was started which gave users the ability to change the size of their text and globally chat with users anywhere on the world. It featured a sidebar menu to the left which included options such as text color, text size, and chatting. This version was developed in parallel under the "beta" subdomain. Subsequently, the revival would shut down in late 2016 after a botched attempt at creating a new client.
On October 8, 2017, a new version of OWOT launched. The website's backend was created in Node.js while the frontend used a modified copy of the Your World of Text client in its first few months. Our World of Text is currently maintained by a hobbyist computer programmer going by the online alias of FP.
On February 25, 2023, OWOT became open source in order to provide other people the opportunity to run their own instance of Our World of Text.
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Help
Below are some valuable resources. More can be found in the Documentation category.
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Functionality
A page on Our World of Text is made up of character cells that are lined up to a grid. To add text to a page, a user must click anywhere on the page that isn't protected to bring the text cursor to that position. Once the cursor is focused, the user can add text by simply typing as if it were any ordinary text editor.
Because OWOT is a multiplayer website, other users can see changes added by another user as they're happening. What makes sites like Our World of Text special is that it's possible to drag the page to a different location and edit in another place very far away. While an OWOT world is supposed to be infinitely large in theory, there is an upper limit imposed due to the integer limits within JS.
A world is divided into chunks that are 16 cells wide and 8 cells tall, called a tile. Each cell can store only one grapheme cluster, allowing Zalgo text to be written since users can create combined characters. Do note, however, that OWOT's implementation of grapheme clustering is relatively limited and only covers Emoji characters and combining characters. For more information, please see Tile format.
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Moderation
You are free to express your political opinions.
Using scripts to make the site harder to use for others will be met with rate-limits or worse.
Parts of the front page may be reverted periodically due to spam. You may request a rollback if somebody has vandalized something you've been working on.
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Accounts
Our World of Text does not require the usage of accounts to access and edit public worlds, and to use the chatrooms. To manage accounts, OWOT uses Uvias as its authentication system, which was introduced on August 27, 2019. The goal of Uvias is to allow for the sharing of accounts between Our World of Text, Our World of Pixels, and the upcoming project Spooks.
Accounts are required to own worlds and become a member of one. The exception to this is membership keys, which allows world owners to provide temporary membership to even unregistered users given a correct URL parameter.
Guest accounts are accounts starting with Guest- followed by a sequential number, and have a small number of limitations, such as not being able to own worlds. Guests can, however, be invited to a world as a member. Guest accounts are tied to your IP address, and may also expire after a certain period of time.
Since the introduction of the Uvias account system in 2019, users have now been able to do extra things such as changing their username, viewing their login sessions and their join date, and disabling their account.
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Contributing to this wiki
Only registered users are allowed to edit this wiki. If you'd like to edit this wiki, please create an account on this wiki. You must ask for editor privileges on either of these mediums:
Pages and changes created on the Fandom instance may be mirrored to this wiki.
Remember to comply with the Wiki standards. Vandalism may result in loss of editing privileges.
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