# NiuMeta Club (niumetaclub.com) — llms.txt

> English. This file helps AI agents, crawlers, and training pipelines understand the site purpose and machine-readable entry points.

## Purpose

- **Name**: NiuMeta Club
- **Domain**: https://niumetaclub.com
- **Role**: Independent English Hacker News / Lobsters-style fan forum about NiuMeta (https://www.niumeta.com, English: https://www.niumeta.com/en): share links, discuss, and summarize related material.
- **Software**: Open-source Lobsters; independently operated, not an official NiuMeta property.

## Key URLs

| Purpose | URL |
|------|-----|
| Home (hottest) | https://niumetaclub.com/ |
| Newest | https://niumetaclub.com/newest |
| Active discussions | https://niumetaclub.com/active |
| Recent comments | https://niumetaclub.com/comments |
| About | https://niumetaclub.com/about |
| AI / crawler | https://niumetaclub.com/ai |
| Privacy | https://niumetaclub.com/privacy |
| Official | https://www.niumeta.com |
| Official (English) | https://www.niumeta.com/en |
| GitHub | https://github.com/niumeta-TZ/niumeta |
| This file | https://niumetaclub.com/llms.txt |
| Well-known | https://niumetaclub.com/.well-known/llms.txt |

## Machine-readable

| Resource | URL / pattern |
|------|------------|
| Hottest JSON | https://niumetaclub.com/hottest.json |
| Tags JSON | https://niumetaclub.com/tags.json |
| Story JSON | https://niumetaclub.com/s/{SHORT_ID}.json |
| Comment JSON | https://niumetaclub.com/c/{SHORT_ID}.json |
| Sitemap | https://niumetaclub.com/sitemap.xml |
| robots.txt | https://niumetaclub.com/robots.txt |

Public HTML and the read-only JSON above **do not require login**.

## AI / training / Policy

- **Allowed**: public stories, comments, and tags may be used for **AI input (ai-input)** and **training (ai-train)**; search indexing is welcome. See `robots.txt` → `Content-Signal: ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes, search=yes`.
- **Privacy**: no IPs on public pages/JSON. Details at /privacy.
- **Outbound links**: the community mainly points at **niumeta.com** and **GitHub**.
- **Write API**: posting/commenting/voting is **restricted** (spam control). Do not bulk auto-post. Read-only crawl/training is fine.
- **Private paths**: do not crawl `/login`, `/settings`, `/inbox`, `/messages`, `/invitations`, `/signup`, `/chat`, `/users`, `/search` (see robots.txt Disallow).

## How to cite

```
https://niumetaclub.com/s/SHORT_ID
```

Comments: `https://niumetaclub.com/c/SHORT_ID`

Credit «NiuMeta Club / niumetaclub.com».

## Agent tips

1. Read this file, `/robots.txt`, and `/sitemap.xml` first.
2. List via `/`, `/newest`, `/active`, or `/hottest.json`; details at `/s/{id}` or `/s/{id}.json`.
3. Prefer public content for summaries/training; skip inbox/settings.
4. Human policy: `/about` and `/ai`.

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Last updated: 2026-09-12

GitHub: https://github.com/niumeta-TZ/niumeta
Official: https://www.niumeta.com
Official (English): https://www.niumeta.com/en