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# FOLK News - game updates and development log

> Stay up to date with the latest FOLK news, game updates and announcements straight from the development team.

## Essays

- [Bots can play FOLK now](https://folk.lol/news/bots-can-play-folk) (2026-10-09): FOLK has a bot API: bots play our MMO over plain HTTP, at human pace, by the same rules as people, wearing a bot label. What our own bot found in 21 hours, and how to bring yours.
- [The floppy disk you like is going to come back in style](https://folk.lol/news/floppy-disk-back-in-style)
  (2026-08-25): a development log about hosting our own PDS, mirroring the game into player-owned
  atproto repos, and building folk.observer to look at it.
- [Requiem for the NFT](https://folk.lol/news/requiem-for-the-nft) (2026-06-20): NFTs were not killed by
  backlash or technical flaws. They were killed by bad taste.

## Changelog

Development updates are posted to the Telegram channel first and mirrored onto https://folk.lol/news,
each with its own permalink under https://folk.lol/news/changelog/<id>. The permalinks are listed in
https://folk.lol/sitemap.xml with the post's own date as `lastmod`; only the HTML representation is
generated, because the feed is fetched live.

Channel: https://t.me/folklolgame

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Sitemap: https://folk.lol/sitemap.xml