Comment by archimedespi
9 years 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.
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
To join would require me to run code from the website.. or initiate a call to their API via curl?
My initial reaction was to run (and the gpg call made me curious):
I was encouraged by what i saw.
Yep. 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.
Can confirm hitting the endpoint with curl works. Thanks for the account! :) Going to go poke around.
Or take a look at the page source.
Source is: https://github.com/hashbang