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blog: 6 months post
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atroot: true
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template:
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slug: 6-months
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title: 6 months of tangling
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subtitle: new domain, a quick recap, and notes on the future
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date: 2025-09-17
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image: /static/img/logo_with_text.jpeg
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authors:
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- name: Anirudh
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email: anirudh@tangled.sh
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handle: icyphox.sh
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- name: Akshay
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email: akshay@tangled.sh
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handle: oppi.li
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Hello Tanglers! It's been over 6 months since we launched Tangled, so we
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figured we'd do a quick retrospective on what we shipped and what's
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next.
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But before that, we've got a big announcement!
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## tangled.sh is now tangled.org!
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Yep! We managed to get the tangled.org domain thanks to [Chris
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Maytag](https://bsky.app/profile/cpm5280.bsky.social) who very kindly
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let us have it!
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We're still in the process of migrating and there may be stray
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references to the .sh domain in places so bear with us. Rest assured:
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your current links to tangled.sh will be redirected to tangled.org.
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## new logo and mascot: dolly!
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Tangled finally has a logo! Designed by Akshay himself, Dolly is in reference to the first ever *cloned* mammal.
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## major platform highlights
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One of the first major features we built was our pull requests system,
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which follows a unique round-based submission & review approach. This
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was really fun to innovate on -- it remains one of Tangled's core
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differentiators, and one we plan to keep improving.
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In the same vein, we're the first ever code forge to support [stacking
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pull requests](/stacking) using Jujutsu! We're big fans of the tool and
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we use it everyday as we hack on
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[core](https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core). Ultimately, we think
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PR-based collaboration should evolve beyond the traditional model, and
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we're excited to keep experimenting with new ideas that make code review
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and contribution easier!
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CI was our most requested feature, and we spent a *lot* of time debating
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how to approach it. We considered integrating with existing platforms,
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but none were good fits. So we gave in to NIH and [built spindle
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ourselves](/ci)! This turned out great -- we could go all in on Nix and
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make it "atproto native". It also attracted a chunk of the Nix crowd,
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which we're very happy about!
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Spindle is still early but designed to be extensible. The current
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Docker-based engine is limiting -- we plan to switch to micro VMs
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eventually. Meanwhile, if you've got ideas for other spindle backends
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(Kubernetes?!), we'd love patches!
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A rather large change we recently introduced was a complete migration of
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the knotserver to an [XRPC](https://atproto.com/specs/xrpc) API.
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Alongside this, we also decoupled the knot from the appview by getting
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rid of the registration secret, which was centralizing. Knots (and
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spindles) simply declare their owner, which any appview can verify. Once
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we stabilize the [lexicon definitions](lexicons) for these XRPC calls,
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building clients for knots (or entire appviews!) should become much simpler.
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[lexicons]: https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core/tree/master/lexicons
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Issues got a major rework too! They are now threaded: top-level comments
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with replies. This makes Q/A style discussions much easier to follow!
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## the future
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We're working on a *lot* of exciting new things and possibly some big
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announcements to come. For the next 6 months, the primary focus will be
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on these fronts:
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* labels support for issues
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* notifications: both in-app and emails
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* preliminary support for issue and PR search
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* total federation and network playback
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That's all for now; we'll see you on the atmosphere!
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