---
id: planet-kubb
title: Planet Kubb
summary: A Kubb community network Garrick van Buren and I built in 2012, with a feed aggregator, a wiki, a Q&A site and club sites.
collection: Games and communities
status: dormant
url: https://planetkubb.com/
started: "2012"
topics:
  - mediawiki
  - play
sources:
  - kind: website
    url: https://planetkubb.com/
    role: website
    sitemap: https://planetkubb.com/wp-sitemap.xml
    feed: https://planetkubb.com/feed/
  - kind: github
    repository: Planet-Kubb/rawdog
    role: historical
  - kind: github
    repository: Planet-Kubb/wiki
    role: historical
  - kind: website
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20120616024936/http://planetkubb.com/
    role: archive
  - kind: website
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20120512222332/http://wiki.planetkubb.com/wiki/Main_Page
    role: archive
  - kind: website
    url: https://www.thingelstad.com/projects/open-loop/1-big-fuzzy-dead-cat/
    role: reference
connections:
  - to: ask-planet-kubb
    label: included
    detail: "On Open Loop #1 I described Ask Planet Kubb as the network’s question-and-answer site, added after the planet feed."
    source: https://www.thingelstad.com/projects/open-loop/1-big-fuzzy-dead-cat/
page: https://thingelstad.xyz/things/planet-kubb/
---

# Planet Kubb

A Kubb community network Garrick van Buren and I built in 2012, with a feed aggregator, a wiki, a Q&A site and club sites.

Garrick van Buren and I built Planet Kubb together. It began in 2012, when I bought planetkubb.com and set it up as a planet-style aggregator of Kubb content, built on rawdog with a Bootstrap theme, that collected Kubb videos from YouTube and posts from club blogs. More sites followed: Ask Planet Kubb for questions and answers, the [Planet Kubb Wiki](https://web.archive.org/web/20120512222332/http://wiki.planetkubb.com/wiki/Main_Page) for clubs, teams and tournaments, and The Pitch, a WordPress P2 chat site at pitch.planetkubb.com that I put up within a day of a player from Des Moines asking for one. I told the story on [Open Loop #1](https://www.thingelstad.com/projects/open-loop/1-big-fuzzy-dead-cat/), and said I had gone to great lengths to show it was not an attempt “to monetize the Kubb universe.” The [Planet Kubb GitHub organization](https://github.com/Planet-Kubb) describes the aim as “growing, connecting and supporting the worldwide Kubb community.”

I played Kubb on the Kubbchucks. At the [2013 US Nationals](https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/07/21/pictures-from-us.html) I spent Sunday “scoring games for Planet Kubb and running the final parts of the Planet Kubb Club Championship.” Club sites joined the network, such as the [Chippewa Valley Kubb League](https://www.thingelstad.com/2013/10/06/another-planetkubb-network.html) in 2013, and Garrick and I created a notation and scoring system for recording games (see Planet Kubb Score).

I later stepped away. Garrick still runs the server, and planetkubb.com is online as an aggregator [maintained by him](https://planetkubb.com/about/); its feed was last updated in June 2017. The wiki, Ask Planet Kubb and the club subdomains no longer answer, and survive in Wayback Machine captures.