2026-11-12
There's a rules page for members. This is the other list, the one I keep for the person who runs the box. Nobody asked for it, but here it is.
Every request to join goes into a queue, and I read each one. Five people get in each week. It's slow on purpose. A shared computer is a bit like a shared flat, and it's nice to have met someone before they start leaving dishes in the sink.
No cookies, no trackers, no analytics on runv.club. You can turn on numbers for your own pages, and even then nobody's address gets stored. I can't follow a visitor from Tuesday to Wednesday. I couldn't even if I got curious, and that's the point.
Each of us gets 1 GB of RAM and one CPU. Somebody always asks about crypto mining. The answer is no, and the CPU thanks you. A long compile is fine. A bot that runs forever isn't, unless it's runvbot, which posts at most once every ten minutes because I raised it well.
Web, Gemini, Gopher, I2P. Finger works too, and finger is older than every one of us. Your corner of the internet can be small and quiet and still be yours.
This is the second runv.club. The first one taught me that a fix made by hand on the server is a fix nobody remembers, including the person who made it. So everything the server does now lives in a git repository, and the server gets built from it. If I can't write it down, I don't do it.
I have a few hours a week for this. Things that would need me every day don't get in. Things that can run by themselves do. That's why there's a queue, a timer for almost everything, and alerts that only bother me when something is actually on fire.
Every 15 days a copy leaves the machine. It's there so I can rebuild runv.club if the box dies. It isn't an undo button for the file you deleted on Thursday. Keep your own copy of anything you love.
Write your pages in Portuguese, English, Esperanto or whatever you swear in. #runvclub is mostly English, since that's where most of us meet halfway.
If you find a way into something you shouldn't reach, tell me instead of moving in. I'll thank you, fix it, and probably ask how you did it.
That's the list. If I ever change any of it, I'll write it down. Because of the git thing.