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Welcome to the demonstration site for Octothorpe Protocol, where you can find live examples of what you can do with OP version 0.6.

This page has been octothorped with these terms



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About this site

This site shows what you can do with the Octothorpes protocol right now. If it works here, it will work on your site. It’s on a separate domain from the official OP server and its official documentation site to demonstrate how OP works across different domains. It focuses on demonstration, and many examples contain links to their full documentation on the docs site.

What are Octothorpes

Octothorpes are hashtags and backlinks that can be used anywhere on the web, linking urls and resources across a network of domains. OP is like a social layer for independent websites.

You can read much more about it on our docs site.

Why?

Glad you asked. Read our ongoing answer here.

Examples

  • Pages on this site are #’d with terms shared with pages on other sites
  • Pages on this site are backlinked to pages on and off this site
  • This site’s native tagging system turns tags into octothorpes automatically

Fundamentals

  • Backlinks — The idea of a backlink is as old as the concept of a hyperlink, but they’re not as widely implemented as one-way links.
  • Custom Harmonizer — Use a named harmonizer to turn standard HTML meta keywords into octothorpes — no OP-specific markup required. (v0.6)
  • Hashtags on Links — Bookmarks, citations, and other typed relationships can carry their own hashtag terms, independent of the page’s tags. (v0.6)
  • Link Types — OP supports typed page-to-page relationships: bookmarks, citations, buttons, and custom types. (v0.6)
  • Multiple Servers — This page sends octothorpes to two different servers.
  • Octothorpe Anywhere — Implementing Octothorpes is really easy. Here are some sites on other platforms that already have it.
  • Octothorpe Without Javascript — If you don’t want to use javascript or display #s on the front end, you can use the pure-HTTP method.
  • Tags Only — This page is using tags in the traditional way, even though the pages linked here use those tags as octothorpes.
  • Tags and Octothorpes — Octothorpes are like super-tags for websites. So they are designed to work seamlessly with any platform’s normal method of tagging content.

Indexing

  • Button-Based Indexing — OP can index a page triggered by loading a special version of our site button. (v0.6)
  • Image Indexing — OP now extracts and stores image metadata from indexed pages, making images available in API responses and on server listings. (v0.6)
  • Indexing Policy — You can flag your page as OK index by outside services if you can’t or don’t want to send the request from the page itself. Without the flag, it won’t be scanned. (v0.6)

Querying

  • Fun with RSS — The OP API outputs RSS for almost any query. Here are some combinations worth bookmarking. (v0.5)
  • Match-All Tag Filtering — Use match=all to find pages that carry every one of a set of tags, not just any of them. (v0.6)
  • Multipasses — Multipasses are reusable, shareable query objects that drive OP web components and feeds. (v0.6)
  • Post Date — Pages can declare their own publication date, which OP indexes and uses for date-based API filtering. (v0.6)
  • Web Components — OP ships a set of web components for displaying indexed content on any site. (v0.6)

Webrings

  • The Demo Webring — OP makes it easy to run your own webring from your own website. This is the homepage of the OP Demo Webring.
  • The Rad Webring — A second webring demo — same mechanic as the Demo Webring, different members.

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