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No. 2592286

Discuss the happenings, drama, cringe, etc. of Neocities, personal sites, webrings, and other small communities, and how they used to be in the past.

Other possible topics of discussion:
>personal sites vs social media profiles
>creating shrines and fanlistings
>joining webrings and cliques
>how socializing on the internet has changed


Previous threads
thread #5: >>>/ot/2426717
thread #4: >>>/ot/2139249
thread #3: >>>/ot/1914925
thread #2: >>>/ot/1520815
thread #1: >>>/ot/1320546

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https://wiby.me/
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https://anilinks.neocities.org/

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https://www.w3schools.com/
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https://tinytools.directory/
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No. 2592416

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thank you for the new thread nonnie! I love the threadpic lol

what’s everyone’s pet peeves when it comes to sites on the indie web? the obvious answer is already zoomer manifestos about copying & virtue signalling about trannies and palestine, but I’m curious to know what other (and generally harmless) things you all find annoying in these spaces

No. 2592424

>>2592416
>Do not use this ring as an excuse to witchhunt
and yet, it's users seem it fit to bother people who aren't in it. these people do no favors to their cause.
this is a similar sort of slacktivism as filling your tumblr feed with fake palestine stories looking to fleece retards out of money. it only makes people fatigued.

No. 2592427

>>2592416
Accessibility spergs who get on you for not having a mobile-friendly or disability-friendly layout.

No. 2592437

>>2592416
Pastel coloured text on top of a white background I can't see SHIT

No. 2592489

>>2592416
autoplay, vhs/tv filter, images covering text/scrollbars without the pointer-event turned off so you cant even click/scroll the text lmao

No. 2592536

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>>2592416
i've known the person who made this ring. she's friends with some of the most annoying retards ever kek.

anyways i guess one thing i fucking hate on people's sites is this gaudy ass adbox. 99% of the time it links to a nothingburger site and the ads won't even fit with the site's theming. i'm also just tired of pastel colored sites. a bunch of nonas talked about it before but there's way too fucking many of them.

No. 2592575

>>2592416
>Iframes
now before you kill me, I don’t mind iframes as they are. the problem is, people make websites based entirely on one iframe which is fine, but then there is no navigation back or forward. please nonas, this is hard to use.
I urge, no, BESEECH people to make buttons that on click trigger “history.back()” in the iframe, or just make the container you want to update with new content in JavaScript so you have access to AJAX and can go back and forward using the browser buttons without changing the page. I know this is less desirable because it’s harder but it is worth it if you’re getting into building a more polished website or single page app

No. 2592576

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I am bedridden and i need sites to read. Do you nonnies have any recs? i am loving traveling healer's blogs, she sounds very sweet albeit a bit crazy.

No. 2592577

>>2592575
Iframes are kinda lame tho. Especially when its just one page with a iframe holder, thats so boring. I guess its fine if you arent very creatively-inclined but seeing all the uniquely designed pages on a website is like half the fun

No. 2592584

>>2592577
They have their uses when you want to embed something from another site or like in the case of sozai sites, you might have no need to have each category of pixel art be on a different page. But yes, each page being the same layout is boring, I agree. Even if you want to retain some sort of aesthetic identity with your website, you can still switch it up time to time and not rely solely on the 3 column +banner combo

No. 2592586

>>2592576
cabbagesorter is my favorite review site if you're into reviews on like anime and shit. she's my main inspiration for making a game review page on my site. annehero's blog is also good if you're fine with reading the blog of a tranny supporter.

No. 2593060


No. 2593128

>>2593060
>(yes, these are hosted on nekoweb)
Obviously

No. 2593157

>>2592660
>>2592955
we must not be looking at the same site because all i'm seeing is just another run of the mill kawaii site? i find that aesthetic completely boring

No. 2593197

>>2592660
I never said it doesn't look good, we were talking about originality there, read more than 1 reply in a chain please.
And yeah, I do have a site and I prefer how it looks ove hers. Why are people on this thread always so aggressive/jump to the wrost assumptions? Gezz….

No. 2593199

>>2593197
I would bet money that post was her kekk

No. 2593201

>>2593199
NTA but I was thinking the same thing

No. 2593314

>>2592489
tysm for mentioning pointer-event here nona i just realized i forgot to set it off for an image my site

No. 2593433

>>2593199
wouldn't surprise me given how quickly she jumped to her own defense during flonne's schizo episode a couple thread backs KEK she's a retard who always feels the need to defend herself

No. 2594267

ever since the bree drama i realized i don't know of many fellow nonnies except for the very visible ones/based stacys. how do we find each other? there are some people i think might be farmers but i don't really know

No. 2594305

>>2594267
Have you tried actually reaching out and talking to webmasters you like? The solution really is as simple as that. If you don't try to get to know someone, you will forever stay in the dark.

No. 2594332

>>2594267
Sometimes its as easy as reading someone's blog and they straight up namedrop LC or a thread from there, other times it takes some sleuthing and actually communicating with the webmaster to see their opinions. One of the easier hints are pronouns and how they identify themselves (such as whether theyre upfront about identifying as a woman/webmistress or have no identifiers at all but make their gender obvious from their hobbies and interests like yume/fujo media or jfashion as an example)
You'll be surprised how many women out there are either "neutral" or crypto about troon shit and prefer to discuss hobbies and promote stuff for women by women instead of making smallweb an activist dick measuring contest. Like unless you're looking for nonas specifically so you can discuss LC topics such as cows or drama I'd recommend just finding "normie" women to befriend since they're much easier to seek and reach out as being associated with this site upfront is setting yourself up to be branded as an undesirable by TRAs though I'm pretty cautious about adding actual farmers due to negative experiences I've received from the friend finder and how many bippies and schizos make up the userbase unsurprisingly. The bree situation just reinforced my stance kek

No. 2594547

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pomelo deleted her website and disabled her neocities profile. looks like the pomelo.lol domain is down too, and the url was excluded from the wayback machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/pomelo.lol

No. 2594550

>>2594547
First lovesick and now pomelo? Wtf is going on? Why are all of my favorite sites DFEing?

No. 2594551


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>>2594547
wow that’s both suspicious and disappointing. I really loved her pixel art and her xiv modding guide pages. Seems she’s wiped her deviantart page too…

No. 2594557

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>>2594547
A second based stacy member has DFE her account

No. 2594560

I noticed a lot of people are either deactivating their neocities or moving host services, is there something going on with the site or is it just a coincidence that everyone is deciding to up and leave it?

No. 2594563

>>2594560
the people deleting their pages are all members of the based stacy friend group

No. 2594566

>>2594560
I noticed this too, mouseling being one and ophanimkei another. I think its just a coincidence in some cases tbh

No. 2594567

>>2594563
Then it might be coincidental because aside from Pomelo and Lovesick, I've noticed a number of unrelated webmasters who aren't associated with the group or LC as a whole suddenly DFE or switch hosts. I'd hate for something suspect to be going on with neocities since I'd have to go through the process of finding another hosting service and uploading site assets since I use neocities' built in storage. As of now though I'll stay on the service until something is verified

No. 2594573

a reminder to save any sites you like to your device if they’re still up. do not rely on the internet archive because people can exclude their sites at will

No. 2594597

Did anyone here ever use to lurk freeopendiary.com back in the day?
I used to really love reading people's day to day lives, and some people were quite creative/unhinged about it. A couple of them I think these days I would take as fiction but I love that young retard me got to enjoy them as if real.

No. 2594621

>>2594597
Not the same thing but I used to read grouphug for confessions and unhinged rambling
https://www.grouphug.us/about/

No. 2594631

>>2594560
Probably falling out with each other over discord chats and then deleting their blogs afterwards.

No. 2594642

>>2594560
>>2594563
It's not just one group, I noticed a lot of unrelated sites moving off of Neocities lately like Ophanimkei and I understand why now. The site is filled with users, a lot of kids but not all, who have a weird parasocial bond with the popular sites. Putting yourself out there opens you up to weirdos who feel entitled to your creations and other undesirables. I don't blame anyone for leaving eventually and finding a new host independent of this mess. I'm grateful to NC for showing me a new world but it's a smart move to eventually leave it behind.

No. 2594646

>>2594642
Should I take the plunge and switch hosts? I've already somewhat nipped the problem in the bud by immediately turning off my neocities account and comments section upon starting up my site but if the toxicity is really that bad would it just be less stressful and better to use another service? I might try FC2 since it makes your site virtually undetectable unless you directly link it

No. 2594654

>>2594646
I would say yes just so you can avoid the retards. I switched from Neocities a months ago to FC2 and it's been freeing not having literal children asking about where muh Palestine buttons are constantly.

No. 2594660

>>2594646
weirdly enough i don't feel the need to switch. i fucking hate all the children and retards on neocities but disabling my profile, not having a guestbook, and only paying attention to the sites i like is good enough to me.

No. 2594679

>>2594267
>>2594332
There are a lot of us who are completely crypto and interact with gendie women because we share hobbies. It’s not hard to interact with she/they’s who justhaven’t grown out of their NLOG phase if we’re just talking about video games. Don’t dismiss someone just because there are gendie women in their links. I love how overwhelmingly female the indie web is even if we’re all a little retarded kek
>>2594560
I moved hosts a year ago because I wanted access to more advanced scripting and my own domain. Neocities premium is expensive compared to normie hosts.

No. 2594749

>>2594679
>normie hosts
could you share what host you're using?

No. 2594770

>>2594654
i get why this would be irritating but i've never had this experience on neocities before. do people really bother others for not having palestine buttons on their page? i've also somehow never gotten shit for speaking about feminism or having LC references on my site

No. 2594776

>>2594770
nayrt im by no means popular on the site but ive received a couple emails about it, which led to me removing my guestbook & site email in general. people do tend to do this kind of retard shit

No. 2594801

>>2594770
i've literally never had this happen to me either lol. this whole talk is kinda bizarre. i guess these anons that have had it happen to them are maybe social activists in other areas, and are putting people off by not talking about palestine or whatever. i have seen hundreds of websites that don't have any kind of activism whatsoever and all of the sites i follow are also free of activism, including my own, and nobody gets harrassed for it.

No. 2594881

>>2594801
I haven't had the Palestine sperging happen to me but I've had people in my guestbook asking about my pronouns or if I support trans rights since I don't have any idpol blinkies or buttons on my site. I guess it really depends on what kind of site you have.

No. 2594901

>>2594881
if someone is discerning they would be able to tell i'm against that kinda thing but i've never received any sperging, maybe i'm lucky or the people that visit my site don't care. usually the freaks click off any site instantly that doesn't have a million gay or tranny blinkies on the front page

No. 2594915

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>>2594560
two-x seems to be gone too but is still up on archive.org.

No. 2594928

>>2594915
Looks like its been gone a while. Slightly related but does anyone remember the link to the website that was created in response to Dylan Mulvaney? It had to do with female marketing iirc

No. 2594934

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>>2594928
do you mean this one? https://antiwomanbrands.neocities.org/ it's been inactive for a while sadly. love this little gif of kikomi plastered in the footer though kek

No. 2594945

>>2594934
Yes thank you!

No. 2594952

>>2594934
I miss antiwomanbrands and wish it was updated. Some long ass finals she's having.

No. 2595043

>>2594770
This has never happened to me either, at most I've had people subtweet me elsewhere or remove my button.

No. 2595055

Nonas, how do you find cool websites outside neocities and nekoweb?

No. 2595077

>>2595055
Web surfing, the good old fashion way. Click around the affiliates and links at sites you like and then click those site's links and so on and so forth. You can also take a look at fanlistings and webrings.

No. 2595111

>>2594770
also never happened to me, but i'm not involved in webrings and my page is entirely on my native language so anglo speakers and ameriboos alike automatically think of me as lesser and avoid me kek

No. 2595112

>>2595111
nona we literally can't understand a single word on your page not avoiding you kek

No. 2595116

>>2595112
nonna that's not a problem when it's a japanese owned site, it gives them +10 sugoi points and suddenly it's the most interesting site on the web. same with an european using their local language, they translate everything really fast just to check if the owner is le fascist nazi or something

No. 2595119

>>2595116
idk i'm just saying why i click off non-english sites. because i can't understand anything

No. 2595122

>>2595119
it's ok nonna, i do the same most of the time

No. 2595126

>>2595116
Japanese sites are only cool when accompanied by anime art

No. 2595232

Are there other hosts that have the user-friendly folder style management neocities uses? Or in general are also user-friendly?

No. 2595276

>>2595119
try a translator plugin in your browser

No. 2595423


No. 2595714

>>2595232
FileZilla is your friend

No. 2595937

>>2594557
Underrated

No. 2595975

whiteribbon.blog is now public. interesting development

No. 2595978

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>>2595975
Interesting how? theres no new milk, just the shit we covered already

No. 2595979

>>2594776
That's pretty strange. I've hung around some personal web communities with more politically charged users for a while and still haven't attracted any people of that kind to my inbox. I guess it depends on the style of your site and popularity? Idk

No. 2595990

>>2595975
hasn't it been public this whole time? someone was archiving bree's site consistently so i doubt this is anything new.

No. 2596056

>>2595975
who cares bree(hi cow)

No. 2596071

>>2595975
It's been public for a while now. I think she reopened it shortly after everything blew up last thread
>>2595979
Same. My site has a decent amount of followers but I haven't dealt with any crazies on neocities. I wonder if a certain site aesthetic attracts them or if other anons are just unlucky

No. 2596203

>>2595975
Hasn't it always been public? I don't see how that's interesting. This drama feels so staged and inorganic.

No. 2596254

>>2592416
I don’t mind disabled right-click but if it triggers a popup then it immediately annoys me. “donut steel my code!!!1!1!” maybe I wouldn’t need to right-click if you actually made it so outgoing links open in a new tab…

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>>2596254
here's an even more obnoxious take on this: when you right click on this person's site, the entire page redirects you to their cash app ????
https://axayacatl.neocities.org/

No. 2596261

>>2596259
doing all that for your 2edgy4me dime-a-dozen eroguro anime website is crazy work KEK

No. 2596263

>>2596259
Wow that's a first kek

No. 2596287

>>2596259
That's honestly so funny I don't even mind it. More power to them I would copy it if I we had a similar app there

No. 2596288

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>>2596259
don't worry nonna, if you right click on the diary page, you'll get a "SWIPER NO SWIPING" popup too. what a lame deterrent, anyone who wants to steal the code WILL, regardless of the hoops you make them jump through. props for being savvy enough to also make the redirect trigger when attempting to inspect the source via keyboard shortcut, but ctrl + u works regardless.

No. 2596296

>>2596287
no one is ever going to donate so it just comes off as poverty stricken and desperate

No. 2596313

>>2596259
Holy shit, this’s the most try-hard thing I’ve seen in a while. It always annoys when me when people go on about their “deep” reasons for liking gorey art. Can’t you just.. like things? Instead of making it some 2deep4you analysis about how “~forbidden and intense~” a manga is. Especially funny that they go on about loving eroguro, when all the series they mention are the most well known ones. Wow you like Saya? And Euphoria? So different, never met someone like that before.

No. 2596359

>>2596296
I know, but it's funny.

No. 2596378

why do i think pom deleted bc some retarded nonnies started talking about how shes such a kek based TERF in her cbox and she didn't want her GC beliefs to be too public

No. 2596468

>>2596378
Couldn't she just delete comments or her cbox then? It doesn't really make sense that she DFEd her entire online presence because of some retarded anons

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>>2596378
are you just perpetuating retarded tranny rumors from reddit or what?

No. 2596487

>>2596483
Good lord I hate these nekoweb fucks

No. 2596500

>>2596483
Honestly don't blame these girls for migrating elsewhere to stay more low key, might do the same myself since my site is openly TERFy

No. 2596505

>>2596500
what would you be escaping exactly? the occasional comment that you can easily delete? this melodramatic WAHH I NEED TO ESCAPE NEOCITIES FOR THE FEAR OF HARRASSING GUESTBOOK COMMENTS is getting so old. nobody cares if you hate trannies

No. 2596509

>>2596500
The issue is that you don’t even need to be an actual TERF to be subject to the witch hunting. Lovesick used to get retards in her cbox accusing her of being a TERF after the WOTI callout and she just deleted the comments, as far as I can tell. She’s not even a TERF, just a grown woman who dares to have hobbies on the internet and interact with other women her age. Pom had a vaguely gender crit button on her site. She’s definitely not the evil, man-hating TERF people make her out to be. Not that there’s an issue with that kek. Zoomers have a hard time understanding that their political extremism isn’t normal. They’re just bullies and misogynists, even if they think they’re justified in their witch-hunting.

No. 2596517

>>2596505
The comments wear you down over time. I've even seen death threats over the simplest things. All you have to do is be openly a woman on the internet to get subjected to hate comments and it gets tiring, moving acts like a filter.

No. 2596518

>>2596505
But it's annoying. Yes you can disable comments, make your profile private etc etc But cutting from the roots is more effective.
I myself didn't had any problems, but I moves because I hated knowing the amount of children that visited/followed mt site. Do they still visit me on my new host? Probably, but at least I don't see them so it's easier to ignore. You're making it seem like we are melodramatic, but it's just a simple solution for peace of mind, NC and the like are too full of TRAs and children.

No. 2596519

>>2596505
Defensive, much? Sometimes it's just better to be on a more professional host than some techbro's abandoned hobby project. Neocities is pretty barebones as a host and doesn't even use php or host other files without a subscription.

No. 2596555

>>2596483
NTAYRT but the cbox comments were up for 8 or so days, and that was right before Pom deleted it.. Any nonnie ITT could have noted it before it was gone. I was going to her page a lot lately since I rlly enjoyed the links she had

No. 2596575

>>2596518
you and your ilk are just paranoid, at least somebody was visiting your site before, now nobody visits it because you made it as obscure as possible.

No. 2596585

>>2596575
NTA, I see that as a plus imo. I've had people find my site through obscure fanlistings I'm in which I find more enjoyable than having them click my page because my site looked aesthetic on the discover page.

No. 2596588

>>2596575
I think it’s fair to call us paranoid, but it’s not without good reason. As mentioned >>2596509 you don’t even need to be a TERF to be targeted for harassment. The gendie cult are vicious cyber bullies who dehumanize women. I don’t want to get doxxed, which is a real possibility with their ‘ilk’. And you can 100% call me retarded for not being more anonymous and un-doxxable but shit is out of the horse, so to speak. Better to be crypto and off the radar.

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>>2596378
kek don’t tell me pom got witch hunted for this stamp, this was the only remotely terf-y thing i remember from her site

No. 2596606

>>2596588
Even she/they gendies and TIFs get accused of being terfy for not talking about TIMs 24/7, the former happened to someone I know. These people are crazy.

No. 2596616

I want to know what hosts lovesick and pom moved to. They seem to know what they're doing.
I already pay for neocities because my art takes up more than 1GB so I'm trying not to just blindly follow suit and spend more money on hosting, but if there is a good reason for the host they choose I'd like to know too. Right now I have my nc private. I don't like the clout-chasing aspect of the profiles pages since I get easily addicted to it, but I still want my art accessible to people to enjoy.

No. 2596623

>>2596575
NTA but that's exactly what some of us want.

No. 2596642

>>2595276
lemme guess, the one that just reopened applications? i got an email that they're allowing submissions and yeah, the dates line up.

No. 2596643

>>2596616
Email and ask! I had a question about something and got an answer.

No. 2596649

>>2596643
Since the websites are down they don't have the emails there anymore. I guess I could wait and see if they pop up again sometime.

No. 2596661

>>2596649
you can still reach lovesick by clicking on her name in the footer here https://lovesick.cafe/ since she kept her cliques n such up

No. 2596682

>>2596616
IDK where they moved to but off the top of my head I've read nothing but good things about Dreamhost, Vercel, and NearlyFreeSpeech.

No. 2596776

>>2596575
So what? For me, the goal has never been "get as many views as possible." It's also not really paranoid to describe a very obvious pattern on Neocities. Something about the two-way communication makes a lot of the userbase feel very entitled to you in the same way they feel entitled to their mutuals on social media. Guestbooks and comment boxes have the same issue where once people perceive a direct line of communication, they immediately try to play these neurotic social control games they're used to. It isn't weird at all to want to opt out. It is tiresome to babysit a comment box and it sucks the joy out of being a webmistress. After all, I'd bet most anons here made personal websites to have a refuge from the aggressive badgering and homogeneity of social media.

No. 2596834

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Do you think everyone is just moving over to nekoweb?

No. 2596859

>>2596834
wouldn’t surprise me. on paper it seems like a better host because of the file space and no limit on what kind of files you upload (honestly a kind of stupid idea for safety reasons but let dimden and co find that out for themselves kek) but at the end of the day it’s a host started by a bunch of gendies that’s probably a callout away from being blown to the high heavens.

No. 2596883

>>2596834
maybe but not those specific sites. like onionroom deleted in 2022 and sugar4brains talked about not having the time for a website anymore.
>>2596859
this is how i feel also. nekoweb doesn't seem stable.

No. 2596895

>>2596834
I think people just have burnout. I've noticed a lot of sites made during the pandemic are on hiatus or are quietly being abandoned/deleted

No. 2596911

>>2596859
For all the hopes that nekoweb gets shut down I actually hope the project thrives for a while (even if it means sacrificing some milky drama) because it acts as easy containment from undesirables I don't want to associate with; I dont imagine underaged zoomies bothering to discover sites that aren't curated in a discover page so they'll mostly stick to their own domain

No. 2596925

>>2596911
i feel this way too. its a good containment platform since nekoweb and neocities themselves are often what's talked about when it comes to hosting so all the twitterfags migrate there as opposed to finding another free host with no socmed aspects

>>2596575
>now nobody visits it because you made it as obscure as possible.
i just jumped hosts recently and i'll be honest, i prefer it this way. i'd rather my site only be seen through specific avenues i can opt into like webrings and cliques rather than being discoverable in a host platform algorithm. given that indie web is seen as a trend by twitter/tiktokbrained zoomies and there's people talking about it on tiktok and youtube, i'd rather my site be a little harder to find too

No. 2596942

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If I wanted to make a food and recipe blog would I make a whole new site dedicated to food reviews and recipes or would I just add a recipe section to my current blog?

No. 2596952

>>2596942
Id make a new one and link it back simply because I don't want to pay for more space

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>>2596952
Thank you nonna I'll start on a new blog

No. 2597110

Ok my other nitpick with indieweb pages is that I hate when people use pixel fonts for the whole page. Especially if its one of those tiny 9px ones.

No. 2598445

i hope someone has or will make an archive of pom's site. it was one of my faves.

No. 2598526

>>2598445
a couple of her pages are archived on archive.is, but I wish someone grabbed more…

No. 2599149

There was no link to this thread in the previous thread when it reached the post limit.

>>2582413
>>2582420

This convo interests me, firstly because I'm usually the one being referred as "grandma" in this thread, but more importantly because I did in fact have a GeoCities site in the late 90s and early 2000s. I've never been of the opinion that "too many toys" is antithetical to the "old web" aesthetic. I loaded my sites with JavaScript gimmicks back in the day, and I still do. That stuff is very much part of my old web nostalgia, as it is for a lot of users who enjoyed experimenting with the latest tech.(personalityfag)

No. 2599153

Blumchen is a nazi?

No. 2599173

>>2599153
provide context or gtfo

No. 2599198

>>2599173
>>2599153
There's some talk about her on previous threads. She used to have the iron cross plastered across some part of her site, I'm too lazy to go look for it here but I'm sure if you dig through the threads and ctrl+f "trad" you'll find it.

No. 2599208

I saw this site on WOTI, it's one of the newer entries on the list. Is this some sort of bizarre trad-adjacent LARP? Someone's personal/creative writing project? Exaggerated with some roots in reality? It's kind of weird if it's fake, and unsettling/alarming if it's for real.
https://usvstheworld.bearblog.dev/

No. 2599308

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rip middlepots website has been excluded from the wayback machine
i wonder if her leaving has anything to do with her game failing and that one super dramatic steam review about how someone confronted her about stolen assets and middlepot "sent a man" after her kek

No. 2599315

>>2599308
>i wonder if her leaving has anything to do with her game failing
Thats funny and all but it says right there she left because she doesn't have the motivation nor time to maintain and keep her sites up. I'm guessing she excluded her site from the wayback machine way before the decision to close her site since she's giving the go ahead to back up her content before the site goes down on the disclaimer (or maybe she doesn't wish for her content to be public anymore? who knows)

No. 2599323

>>2599315
yes i was just joking lol. i like her but i dont like her at the same time because of how her game sort of feels like a way to make a quick buck
i do wish her site would remain online

No. 2599397

>>2599323
Nah her game is cool, wish there were more games like hers

No. 2599449

>>2599397
>>2599315
why are you so up her ass? weirdo

No. 2599472

>>2599449
why are you so defensive?

No. 2599476

>>2599397
uhh i mean its cute but its clearly very shallow and buggy with seemingly no bugfixes

No. 2599563

>>2599208
It would be weird to larp about this. It's sad when a girl who is barely an adult will have all their free time spent looking after children like this. If your only real desire for yourself is having a kid after having struggled with and ED, you're probably not done healing from it seeing as you didn't develop any personal ambitions past what a church tells you is your only purpose. Also it's hard to think these parents actually have solid employment to support these children at such a young age. It's always the people who should be child free the most seemingly having kids often.

Sage for childfree sperg

No. 2599573

>>2599208
This makes me curious, does anyone in this thread use Bearblog? I actually think it could be a great fit for anyone looking for a mostly private (or hard to find) online diary. If you don't like coding or don't care, and want to avoid the nekoweb/Neocities crowd it seems like a good option.

No. 2599586

>>2599208
Content aside I didn't realize bearblog allowed custom css

No. 2599645

>>2599563
It would definitely be weird. That said, I knew a girl back in the day who LARPed about some pretty deranged shit though. (Told people she'd been pregnant several times as a teen and forced into abortions, that her parents were dead, etc)- hers was a grift though, and it doesn't seem like there's a grifting angle here.
If this isn't bullshit, then it is unbelievably fucked-up and sad. She has her first kid at 15, then two more before 20. Her husband to me sounds quite a bit older from the very little she talks about him, but I hope that I'm misreading that.

No. 2599705

>>2599208
seems similar to blumchen's situation. trying to curate a trad christian mommy aesthetic probably makes both of them feel better but it makes me feel bad for them.

No. 2599774

Seeing another uptick of people leaving neocities and I wonder if the conversation here influenced it.
If one of you are reading this I hope to find you again in greener pastures, your websites are lovely and I'll miss them dearly!

No. 2599897

>>2599308
middlepot leaving and excluding her site has been talked about like two other times before nona

No. 2599958

>>2599897
the oldweb thread is always the same spergs about the same few topics. even the same retarded question about coding such as "is it ok to use AI" surfaces multiple times. are u even surprised nonna

No. 2599967

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I have several pages for my website done but ive remade my index page approximately 3 times and im still not happy with it.

No. 2599982

>>2599967
It especially sucks when you finally nail the index but now the CSS is different to the other pages and theres the dilemma on whether to keep the old layouts or rework them to match the index….

No. 2600050

>>2599573
I used to use bearblog. Markdown is easy to learn, and you're not shown on the discovery feeds unless you opt in.
>>2599208
IIRC you can only customise templates that are provided, and it's limited to colours, font sizes, etc. and nothing about things like element positioning. If you want extra customisation, you need to pay.

No. 2600118

anyone know what’s up with the juicebar boards that a lot of people have linked on their sites? it seemed like a cool community but it’s closed for registration at the moment. is it invite only or closing down or something?

No. 2600157

>>2600118
Last I saw was that it was having trouble with bot accounts or something

No. 2600271

>>2600118
no one seems to have used it for a few months, sadly. there were plans to have their own off season artfight, but it seems that fell through, as well

No. 2600401

Is it ok to take a graphic from someone's site and use it on your own site? I reverse image searched it and it's a stock image that they edited by dithering it. I'm basically using it the same way as a background element, there's still a difference between our uses, but still.

No. 2600410

>>2600401
It depends on the webmaster. Some license their websites under licenses which allow redistribution under certain conditions, some have permissive licenses (Like MIT or GPL) and some simply don't care. It's probably fine to do as long as the webmaster's not being pissy over others using their assets.

No. 2600442

>>2599967
>>2599982
Anons, your website being a bit fucked up and imperfect looking is a big piece of the charm of smallweb personal sites. You can tweak it later, keep building the meat of the website now



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