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There /is/ a modern, well-managed open-registration shell and IRC service, similar to what you're talking about, called Hashbang. You can join via https://hashb
by archimedespi 9y ago
There /is/ a modern, well-managed open-registration shell and IRC service, similar to what you're talking about, called Hashbang. You can join via https://hashbang.sh https://hashbang.sh.
We're reasonably active, and we have almost 1400 registered users [edited: i was corrected by a hashbang admin as to the amount].
The ultimate purpose of hashbang is to expose more users to a traditional remote UNIX server and command line, as well as teaching people how to use it.
We've created a slight barrier to entry with the intentionally obtuse signup flow, as we don't want completely non-technical users flooding the service.
I promise we won't bite :D
- Aloha 9y agoTo join would require me to run code from the website.. or initiate a call to their API via curl?
- archimedespi 9y agoYep. You can download/verify that script by hand, or hit the endpoints yourself. They just run stuff to provision your user and files and add you to our LDAP directory.
- corford 9y agoCan confirm hitting the endpoint with curl works. Thanks for the account! :) Going to go poke around.
- toothbrush 9y agoMy initial reaction was to run (and the gpg call made me curious): curl hashbang.sh I was encouraged by what i saw.
- tokenizerrr 9y agoOr take a look at the page source.
- dorianm 9y agoSource is: https://github.com/hashbang https://github.com/hashbang