Hello world!
Welcome to Subcon Town! We are a small tilde community, hosted for friends and family.
We offer SSH access, hosting of websites, gopher holes and gemini pods, alongside
other services like cloud services, git and fossil hosting and an activitypub server.
Tilde communities are pubnixes, public access unix systems. We took our inspiration
from older such servers like tilde.club
and the tildes from tildeverse.org.
Users may find out more about this system by visiting the wiki.
Keep in mind that the wiki is still a work in progress.
News
Januari 2023: Plans for the year
Happy new year! Subcon has come a long way since the change of the year. First off: we have moved to
new hardware! The server is now powered by an Odroid H3 board. With that, a number of other changes
have been made as well.
Storage on the server has been totally reworked; the old storage media have been replaced with a 2TB
NVMe drive that will, for one, house the user home directories, and a 4TB SATA SSD that will house all
variable data; user repositories, websites, databases, the lot. All of this has been set up with
convenient LVM partitions that can be easily resized if more space is required in the future.
Many services have been updated. The gitea server has been replaced with a new gogs server, now
hosted at factory.subcon.town. The old snikket server
has also been replaced with a new prosody setup, offering most of the same xmpp services at jab.subcon.town.
Note that old snikket accounts are thus gone. The fedora installation has also been updated to fedora
37.
The most notable change however will be the decrease in processing power. While we still have about
75% of the processing power, the upside is that the system as a whole is seriously more power efficient.
We are now running at a fraction of the power the old server needed, going from 60Wh on average to
a mere 6Wh. Serious power savings like that will lower upkeep cost, which I can in turn invest in
improving other things, such as my god awful internet bandwidth.
Remember that even with all these changes done, the server is, and will likely forever, be a work
in progress. There are still some rough edges needing work, further configuring of services, and
for the current while, a lot of work writing wiki pages at
library.subcon.town.
Services
We provide the following services for our members:
We also host member websites, gopher holes and gemini pods. User websites are listed below,
for gopher holes and gemini pods, visit gopher://subcon.town and
gemini://subcon.town respectively using a compatible browser.
FAQ
Q: You're running on the Odroid H3 now, right?
A: Yes, all Subcon services have been moved to the new hardware
and are fully functional.
Q: Is Subcon Town open for new users?
A: We're still doing some work on some services, but in general
everything is ready. Note that Subcon Town is an invite-only community; you may certainly
ask for an invite, but generally we will only accept people that are known to us already.
Q: Can I get an account on one of your services?
A: Only as an existing member. If you're already a member, ask
@fristi for an account.
Q: Is that the Yoshi's Island font?
A: Yes. It was good game.
Copyright notice
The "Subcon Town" branding, including logos and icons used on this website, are
licensed as CC BY-NC-ND. You may share and redistribute these works, but please do not edit them or use them for
commercial purposes. For more details, read the license.
The source code of this website is licensed under the Blue Oak Model License 1.0.0.
You may use this source code as you wish.
For more details, read the license.
The source code of this website may be viewed here.
Third party works
The fonts and background image used on this website are not owned by Subcon Town. Subcon Town does
not claim any rights to these original works unless otherwise specified by their respective licensing.
Complaints
If you feel any material is incorrectly used on this website, or otherwise infringes on your rights,
feel free to file a complaint with fristi「AT」subcon.town. Please allow up
to 48 hours for a response.
