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candle neonaut

6 years ago

i'm reading this https://neonaut.neocities.org/microblog/2019/10/web-directories-part-3-the-districts.html and i love the idea of an overworld map of neighbouring websites. only tangentially related, you may be interested in this procedurally generated "map" of bitsy games i made https://candle.itch.io/world-of-bitsy

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neonaut 6 years ago

Not only is this oddly hypnotic and satisfying, but it provides some much-needed ideas for representation in bitsy. And it also links the source games. This is brilliant.

bright-eyes neonaut

6 years ago

I found some of your articles interesting, particularly the origin of the 88x31 button. I first came across it on fan sites where people made them for others to download and link back to their sites. Always found it a frustrating size to make though because there's not a lot of room on it. I've found other sizes are used as well - 100 x 50 (my prefered one), 50 x 50, 50 x 75, 100 x 35, and 200 x 40.

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bright-eyes 6 years ago

I've also come across 120 X 60 (very rare) and for top sites directories there's also a 480 x 100 one. I hate the really small ones though because it's hard to make them look great and still fit text on them.

exosilver 6 years ago

i was frustrated by the size as well, it's not the most convenient thing. i think i was interested in doing a 90x30 revival before i started archiving buttons. 100x50, you say? that seems like something fun to experiment with for higher-res buttons... i'll look into it

exosilver 6 years ago

(also wow i did not expect to be linked at the bottom of that 88x31 article!! thanks neonaut!!)

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bright-eyes 6 years ago

The sizes I've mentioned were probably invented by the fanlistings community, but they have certainly been used on fan sites quite a lot, and the personal sites of those who make fanlistings. I remember making some really mis matched ones (size wise) when I first started making fan sites because I didn't realise people could crop images. Pixel fonts are used a lot on them too.

soupault 6 years ago

I believe for modern screens, we really need a new standard to replace 88x31, but I'm not sure how it can be agreed upon by a wide community.

neonaut 6 years ago

I agree the 88x31 is too small and a bit annoying to design. I briefly wondered if the Hosted by Neocities button could provide inspiration, but it's an odd size (200x59). I think something like a 100x50 banner exchange has a chance of trending here on Neocities though.

bright-eyes 6 years ago

2OO x 59 is a bit too big in my opinion. Just tested it out and I can't see a page of those side by side. I think 100 x 50 has the advantage because it's commonly used among fanlistings and if folks who do that make a site here then they'll probably use it. (The drawback is lack of php and database sites - most FLs these days use that to manage them, but a fan site which doesn't need it could work.)

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cloudworld neonaut

6 years ago

Thanks for the follow! I really like your site, especially the 88x31 and ~tilde pages.

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neonaut 6 years ago

updated 88x31... if you want your banner added drop me a link

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incessantpain neonaut

6 years ago

Love your microblog.

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neonaut 6 years ago

Thank you, I like your posts as well!

parnikkapore neonaut

6 years ago

Thanks for the follow!

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cyber/2016-10-03-tilde-club.html

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billsworld neonaut

6 years ago

Congratulations! You've been JAUP'd! Your site is now listed with the new JAUP members at http://www.geocities.ws/jaup/jaup.htm If you wish you may display a JAUP badge on your page. Badges are here: http://www.geocities.ws/jaup/sym.htm

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neonaut 6 years ago

I was going to ask you a few questions about JAUP, then I realized, I've been meaning to interview people on Neocities via email, this might be a good time to start. Are you up for it?

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billsworld 6 years ago

sure

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soupault 6 years ago

Is it a clone of the original JAUP, or you ran the original and revived it now?

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billsworld 6 years ago

It's a clone. For a brief 3 year or so period of time from 1996 until around 1998 [name redacted] was the webmaster of the original JAUP. It was a very fun period of time. GeoCities and other free host sites were in thier heyday. You could get your site listed on a couple of search engines, sites like this and other award sites just by asking and soon you would get thousands of hits!

billsworld 6 years ago

I never knew [name redacted] personally, but my original site was listed in JAUP back in the day. I found it on the Internet Archive back when I was making my NeoCities site and I decided to revive it and try to recreate the fun of the early days of the World Wide Web

soupault neonaut

6 years ago

Regarding the "Hugo and Neocities" post, recursive upload is possible with the neocities CLI tool, no custom script needed. I just do "neocities push build/". It's pure Ruby AFAIR so should be easy to install via gem on any OS.

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neonaut 6 years ago

I had issues with the ruby gem the last few times I tried to install it (SSL certificate issue, I think?). Whatever it was, I did cursory research, realized it would take some time to sort out, and just went back to my MacGuyver setup.

neonaut versus

6 years ago

Cool site! I'm a big shmup fan, though you have piqued my interest on poverty fighting games as well.

versus 6 years ago

Thank you for the kind words! I'll be building out the shmup section a bit, stay tuned :)

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