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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.

Status
Dormant Not currently worked on, and may return.
Dates
Started 2012
Where
planetkubb.com/
Topics
MediaWiki Play
Latest evidence
Latest page change, Jun 23, 2019
The front page of planetkubb.com on Oct 20, 2026
planetkubb.com on Oct 20, 2026. The collector captures the front page once a month.

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 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, 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 describes the aim as “growing, connecting and supporting the worldwide Kubb community.”

I played Kubb on the Kubbchucks. At the 2013 US Nationals 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 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; 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.

Activity

26 commits, all by me, the first on Feb 15, 2012.

10 publications collected from its feeds, the oldest from Feb 21, 2017.

2012: 12 by me2013: 4 by me2014: 3 by me2015: 7 by me2016: no commits2017: no commits2018: no commits2019: no commits2020: no commits2021: no commits2022: no commits2023: no commits2024: no commits2025: no commits2026: no commits
Commits each year from 2012 to 2026, most in 2012 (12). By me With an agent By others

The latest weeks with activity

All activity, week by week. Who made each commit is from its author and co-author lines.

Sources and evidence

Observed daily from GitHub, sitemaps, feeds, the Internet Archive, and Tinylytics. Evidence never sets a status.

2025-11: 02025-12: 02026-01: 02026-02: 02026-03: 02026-04: 02026-05: 02026-06: 02026-07: 02026-08: 02026-09: 02026-10: 0 Commits and publications per month, last twelve months.

Connections

Connections of Planet Kubbis part ofdiscussedbegan onincludedPlanet KubbAsk Planet KubbOpen LoopPlanet Kubb Score
Connections of Planet Kubbis part ofdiscussedbegan onincludedPlanet KubbAsk Planet KubbOpen LoopPlanet Kubb Score

  • Planet Kubb included Ask Planet Kubb

    On Open Loop #1 I described Ask Planet Kubb as the network’s question-and-answer site, added after the planet feed. Source

  • Ask Planet Kubb is part of Planet Kubb

    Ask Planet Kubb described itself as run alongside the Planet Kubb planet feed and linked to the Planet Kubb Wiki and The Pitch. Source

  • Open Loop discussed Planet Kubb

    On Open Loop Source

  • Planet Kubb Score began on Planet Kubb

    The notation was first published on the Planet Kubb Wiki, and the scoring materials live in the Planet Kubb GitHub organization. Source

History

  1. milestone Planet Kubb Club Championship

    Run at 2013 US Nationals. Source

  2. archive Kubb, notation, and a community on the web

    Open Loop’s Kubb Fever episode links Planet Kubb Notation and Scoresheet. This dates the public record, not the original launch. Source

  3. launch Planet Kubb launches

    I buy planetkubb.com and set it up as a rawdog aggregator of Kubb videos and club blogs. Source