Features
What it puts on your page
Ten surfaces, grouped by what they are for. Five of them are a single line you paste into a page you already have; three are pages hosted for you that you link to.
5 surfaces
Publish.
A homepage, a page of links, a short URL, a row of badges for your friends. Somewhere of your own that you hold the keys to.
Short links
Pick a slug or let the server generate one. Update the destination later — the short link keeps working. Hits counted, no visitor profiling.
Pages
A homepage of your own, built from blocks rather than a blank file: text, pictures, free-form HTML, and any widget above dropped straight in.
https://lnx.mx/p/your-slug
Neighbourhoods
Give a page a street address instead of a name. Pick a neighbourhood, pick a street, pick a number — and land somewhere with neighbours, which is the part a list of slugs never had.
https://lnx.mx/n/Hollywood/Lot/4737
Link trees
A hosted, themed page of link buttons. Each button records a click on the way through. Edit the list without losing the counts.
https://lnx.mx/t/your-slug
Banner strips
A hover-grow row of 88×31 badges linking to your friends’ sites. Curate a set in the admin, paste one script tag, done.
<script src="https://lnx.mx/banners/embed.js" data-set="ID" async></script>
2 surfaces
Connect.
Rings of sites a person curates, and a book visitors can sign. Discovery and conversation without an algorithm in the middle.
Webrings
Browse and join curated rings of indie sites. Next/prev/random navigation that works without JS, and join requests a person reads before anything appears.
Guestbooks
The sign-my-book widget, back from the dead. Visitors leave a message; nothing appears until you approve it. Rate-limited and honeypotted.
<script src="https://lnx.mx/guestbooks/embed.js" data-guestbook="ID" async></script>
3 surfaces
Signal.
A counter, a poll, a line saying what you are up to. Enough to show the place is lived in, and nothing that profiles whoever visits.
Hit counters
The odometer, as a plain image — no JavaScript at all. Counts unique visitors once per IP per day, so a refresh does not inflate it.
<img src="https://lnx.mx/counters/ID.svg" alt="visitor count">
Polls
Ask one question, get bars back. One vote per visitor, and the results stay hidden until they have voted. Editing options preserves the votes.
<script src="https://lnx.mx/polls/embed.js" data-poll="ID" async></script>
Status pills
A small “what I am up to now” line — emoji, text, and how long ago you changed it. You curate it; the public only reads it.
<script src="https://lnx.mx/status/embed.js" data-status="ID" async></script>
Under it
Five C++ servers behind one vhost
Every surface above is served by one small process on our hardware, behind one nginx vhost — nothing for you to install or keep running. The components and how they fit together are on the architecture page.