Demo of fuzzy matching

A content page with some nice pictures of a different hummingbird family.

A content page with some nice pictures of a hummingbird family.

This page uses an alternate server, which can easily be set with a page variable.

Build your own algorithm. The new OP API allows you to create dynamic feeds from different, independent websites with complex filtering and grouping methods. Make custom JSON or RSS feeds based on phrases, hashtags, webring membership, originating or target url, with date filtering, fuzzy or exact matching, and the ability to exclude any of the same types of values.

Statements about urls other than the page you’re on are called Assertions

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. A backlink is just a link that goes both ways – if you link to a page, that page knows that you’ve linked to it and can link back to you. In a way, hashtags are one of the most common forms of backlink – posts with hashtags are linked to a page that show you all the things linked to it. Following a hashtag means ending up at related content. Backlinks are like that, but just without the page in the middle. You link to a page, and the page knows you linked to it. This is really easy to do with Octothorpes.

OP makes it easy to run your own Webring from your own website. This is the homepage of the OP Demo Webring

Utility page to test the functionality of the badgetest

Utility page to test the functionality of the badgetest

Utility page to test the functionality of the badgetest

Welcome to the demonstration site for the Octothorpes protocol. Here you can see standard octothorpes and backlinks in action, plus some suggestions for shorthand methods of making them.

Implementing Octothorpes is really easy. Here are some sites on other platforms that already have it.

This page sends octothorpes to two different servers.

Does the web component work

Testing Multipass Web Components

Utility page to test the functionality of different things OP does.

This page has been linked to using a well-formed backlink, but it doesn’t endorse incoming links, so no link shows up.

This page uses an alternate server, which can easily be set with a page variable.

Since everything’s just JSON let’s publish to AT Proto

If you don’t want to use javascript or display #s on the front end, you can use the pure-HTTP method.

Everything you need to start using octothorpes.

OP makes it easy to run your own Webring from your own website. This is the homepage of the OP Demo Webring

Current revision: May 2024

Since octothorpes use basic markup, there are as many ways to create octothorpes as there are to make webpages. This site also contains some utilities to make writing Octothorpes easier, based on common patterns in use on many other platforms.

There are many synonyms for the hashtag. Here are some of our favorites.

Octothorpes are like super-tags for websites. So they are desingned to work seamlessly with any platform’s normal method of tagging content.

This page is using tags in the traditional way, even though the pages linked here use those tags as octothorpes.