#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 · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-14 01:16 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-14 01:16 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #nroff.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-14 01:16 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 7 public posts (spanning ~50807 hours).
Posting hours (UTC)
Languages: English (6) · German (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.6
Top of the latest posts
Why I love classic markup – Both.org https://www.both.org/?p=14624 #nroff #unix #wordprocessing
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/
@wwwgem nroff user, mostly, not GNU gnroff. I prefer nroff with -mdoc when the primary end result does not need pictures or where plaintext availability has high value (e.g. manpages, but also other systems documentation). This is very nice
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