#nroff
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #nroff from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #nroff
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-16 14:40 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-16 14:40 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #nroff.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-16 14:40 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 6 public posts (spanning ~50807 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (6)
Avg boosts / post: 0.3
Top of the latest posts
We first made the #curl build use #nroff for building the hugehelp file in December 1998, for curl 5.2. This makes "curl -M" work. Now, I'm working on a change that finally removes nroff from the curl build process: https://github.com/curl/
Why I love classic markup – Both.org https://www.both.org/?p=14624 #nroff #unix #wordprocessing
Is there a cross-platform way to add a horizontal rule/page-separator to a man page. Must be supported by groff, nroff, troff, and BSD's roff. #roff #groff #nroff #troff #manpage #manpages
What “nroff” means
Wikipedianroff is a text-formatting program on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It produces output suitable for simple fixed-width printers and terminal windows. It is an integral part of the Unix help system, being used to format man pages for display.
“Nroff” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#nroff across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #nroff straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/nroff