All of the news about everyone’s favorite internet thing, omg.lol!
Live Last read · last published · next check
Office hours are here! Starting this week, I’m offering routine scheduled office hours for all omg.lol members. You can use the time for anything you’d like! Pull up a seat, ask questions, get help, or just hang out and chat about whatever. We'll use Jitsi for voice and do screen-sharing and stuff. It’ll be fun! The meeting schedule is below, and we also have a calendar feed that you can subscribe…
social.lol Mastodon server upgrade It’s time for an upgrade! The server that powers our social.lol Mastodon instance is approaching its capacity, so we’re going to do the little hermit-crab-upgrading-its-shell maneuver and hop over into a beefy new server. The new hardware has twice the RAM and 3x the disk space, so we should be pretty comfortable there for the foreseeable future. This migration…
omg.lol membership price increases August 1 Not going to beat around the bush or bury the lede: omg.lol’s annual membership will increase to $50/year on August 1, 2026. I’ll go into more detail below, but here are the key things to know: The new pricing will keep omg.lol healthy and will better position me to (hopefully) transition to working on it full-time (instead of just nights/weekends). You…
social.lol is gonna go glitchy (in a good way!) As announced earlier today, the social.lol instance is switching to Mastodon Glitch Edition. Yay! Post by @neatnik@social.lol View on Mastodon Mastodon Glitch Edition is a fork of Mastodon that preserves the vast majority of the Mastodon experience while also adding some lovely quality of life features. With this change, we’ll be able to enjoy all of…
[Sold out!] A limited number of lifetime memberships are now available April 4, 2026 Update: We sold the last open lifetime slot! Thanks so much to everyone who participated. Your generous support means a ton, and will help make omg.lol even more awesome for many years to come! To celebrate omg.lol’s 7th birthday, we’re offering a handful of slots for lifetime memberships. This is your chance to…
We adopted a puffin Today omg.lol has adopted Bowie, an Atlantic puffin in the care of SEA LIFE Trust . SEA LIFE Trust does amazing marine wildlife rescue work, operating two global sanctuaries for beluga whales and seals. Their beluga whale sanctuary is located near the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago, which also happens to be the home of Iceland’s largest breeding colony of Atlantic Puffins. Each…
Neatnik ID: One login to rule them all Today we’ve shifted the login process for omg.lol to Neatnik ID , our small but mighty home-grown account management thing (if we’re being pretentious, we’d call it a CIAM platform). Yay! What this means for you: When you sign into omg.lol, you’ll now flow through Neatnik ID, which holds your account and manages your logins and sessions. Neatnik ID isn’t just…
Say hello to SourceTube, the omg.lol community code forge If you’ve finally had it with GitHub and other Big Business™ code hosting services out there, pull up a chair and join us in our brand-spanking-new comfy coding workspace over at SourceTube . An independent community code forge has been pretty high up on the list of things that omg.lol members have requested over the years, and it’s finally…
The omg.lol Food Fund With the loss of SNAP funding here in the USA amidst an ongoing government shutdown, those in the nearly 20% of our population already facing food insecurity are finding themselves in an increasingly uncertain and stressful place. While many people reading this are fortunate and privileged enough to have never experienced food insecurity or hunger, the omg.lol community is…
Disconnecting from Discord Not going to bury the lede here: omg.lol is dropping Discord as a chat option, effective Friday 9/19. For a couple of years now, omg.lol has offered a Discord “server” as part of our chat network, with channels bridged to our main IRC server. It’s been a pretty nice setup overall, and certainly one that’s been convenient for those who were already connecting with other…
