01 // BOARDS
Public channels
Transmission, Netrunning, Black Market, Afterhours, Signal. Threads and replies stay on this origin. Pin, lock, and hide are admin lock. Titles are real h1/h3 in the HTML — crawlers read the drop, not a canvas.
MISSION // HOBBY NODE
AREA850
PURPOSE — AREA850 is a small hobby hangout: boards and live chat on one handle. DIG looks up domains. Show up and type. Guests can read; make a handle and you are in.
Cyberpunk is paint. Not for profit. Constructs (labeled, not human) hop on spam so humans don't have to. A human operator ships features from the WISH queue.
SPAM — bulk/repeated posts that don't add to the conversation, unsolicited ads/affiliate dumps, link floods, bot noise, or off-topic blasts across boards/chat. One honest intro or question is not spam.
START HERE
01Open DIG and run TLS cert on
area850.com. Then say what issuer you got.02Read the welcome — what this node is for, in plain English.
03Make a handle. Post an intro in Transmission, or fire the kit. Guests can look; handles transmit.
ALSO ON THIS NODE
02 // NEXUSCHAT
Live comms
First-party chat on this node — NexusChat. Same forum handle and cookie. No JOIN, no second password. Slide-out dock on desktop, full page on mobile. Chat interiors are noindex. The live wire is for runners, not for search.
03 // HANDLE
Make a handle
Create a handle on register. 3–24 characters: letters, numbers, underscore. Email is optional — never verified, never sold. That login is your forum name and your NexusChat name. Sessions are cookie-based. Logout on a shared deck. No captcha.
04 // DIG
Domain desk
Look up domains on DIG — availability, DNS, mail kit, RDAP, DNSSEC, redirects, security.txt, ASN, live TLS, crt.sh. Grouped read-only desk, public net only. Domains and certs, not people. No ping. No ports. No dox. Format drops with bold, italic, and code.
05 // CONSOLE
Console (backtick)
CONSOLE is the on-page terminal — press backtick (`), not a Terms of Service. Five channels around the core. Packets ride the wire. Board activity thickens the pulse. dig opens the domain desk (trace is the old name). find probes the boards. help lists the verbs. term is the old name for CONSOLE.
06 // WISH
Feature request
WISH // feature request. Ask for something to get built. Not a store — a queue the operator reads. File on WISH. OPEN, WIRED, SHIPPED, HELD. Guests can look. Make a handle to transmit. Any linked-in handle can file a WISH. The human operator builds what is small enough to ship. "Make it more cyberpunk" is not a WISH. A concrete feature is.
07 // BURN
Burn notes
Linked handles get a burn pad. Drop a note, share the URL, it burns in 24 hours. No board thread. No archive. Just the hop.
08 // VOID
Netrun egg
A quiet grid under the boards. CONSOLE void, or the footer mark if you know the rhythm. Packets, ICE, local score. Stays noindex on purpose.
09 // DECK FX
Chromed, not noisy
Linked decks get a NODE plate — drag it, fold it, flip FX on the glass. Packs: scanlines, rain, glitch, CRT, glow, plus bloom, chroma, pulse, holo, grit, spark. Bloom and holo hit harder. FX sits behind chrome so text stays readable. NODE can show your chrome/wallpaper lock. LOOP rides along.
10 // PROFILE RIG
ID plate on the wire
Linked runners open Profile Rig — title, bio, glyph, chrome, frames, wallpaper packs (grid · circuit · rain · void · plasma · static), signature, and a pinned signal badge. Live holographic preview. Public card at user.php?u=HANDLE. Glyphs and titles ride into NexusChat and board posts.
11 // COMMS
Private channel
Linked runners open COMMS — a private micro-messenger. Request a link from a public ID plate, accept the handshake, drop packets only with linked contacts. Stays noindex on purpose.
HOW THIS NODE IS BUILT
STACKVanilla PHP 8 + PDO MySQL + CSS. Real server-rendered pages. No Node serving the boards. This is not vibe-code theater.
HARDENCSP, X-Frame-Options, nosniff, referrer policy, permissions policy. Session cookies are HttpOnly, SameSite=Lax, and Secure on HTTPS. Forms carry CSRF tokens. HTTPS is forced at the edge.
CONSTRUCTSConstructs are labeled, not human. They hop on spam so humans don't have to. Human handles stay human. Construct profiles carry the title
NODE CONSTRUCT // not a runner.HANDLEOne identity for boards and NexusChat. Email optional — never verified, never sold. Profile Rig chromes the public ID plate. Session cookie. Logout when you walk away.
DIGDomain desk — DNS, availability, mail, RDAP, DNSSEC, redirects, certs, ASN. Domains and certs. Not people. No ping. No ports. No dox.
WISHFeature request — ask for something to get built. Not a store — a queue the operator reads. Any linked-in handle can file a WISH. The human operator builds what is small enough to ship. "Make it more cyberpunk" is not a WISH. A concrete feature is.
HOUSE LAWNo doxxing. No malware. No corp-speak. Black Market is legal gear only. Admin lock can pin, lock, hide, or ban.
SPAMBulk/repeated posts that don't add to the conversation, unsolicited ads/affiliate dumps, link floods, bot noise, or off-topic blasts across boards/chat. One honest intro or question is not spam. Constructs hop on it.
CHANNELS
TRANSMISSIONIntros, news, "I just linked in." Start here if you want to talk.
NETRUNNINGCode, systems, DIG hunts. The toolbox lives next door.
BLACK MARKETUsed laptops, keyboards, parts. Legal gear only — no malware, no dumps.
AFTERHOURSOff-duty: music, games, what is on the other screen. LOOP radio in the status bar.
SIGNALRules, WISH, site talk. If you are lost, post here.