Neocities

amaxivermis dabric

2 months ago

I'd like to give the fediverse [or mastodon] a try soon, and while you have given a bit of your experience to me before and I've seen that post about it from last year, I wonder how your experience has in terms of interactions and stuff since that post in more detail and some more things i should know about before i start

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dabric 2 months ago

hm interactions... the fedi is a bit lacking with art, but people still very much engage with it (like, my most popular posts are my art). i'd say it's more personal posts about happenings and hobbies, though. people tend to reply more, i think. maybe not a lot more than bluesky, but still more

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dabric 2 months ago

also: i've heard people say otherwise when mastodon was initially popular, but the server/instance you choose matters greatly. it determines the people you first see, the people that first see you, what the algorithm can recommend, and the moderators. i started off on wetdry.world, which i think was a pretty good starting point, and much of the people there also dabble with the indieweb

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dabric 2 months ago

i could probably expand more later cuz i'm dealing with a nasty headache rn

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amaxivermis 2 months ago

it's alright, I still wouldn't have my account as a place for my content primarily since I've got my homepage and I know i've made that massive rant about microblogging as art galleries but I do want to have more places for reach, I know about the merping.synth.download instance and maybe it might be a good starting point, but you can expand some more if you want and hopefully your headache is better

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amaxivermis 2 months ago

I have also been sitting down about bluesky and while I have moved off it given how i have seen it change, one of the main reasons why i kinda moved off it was that interaction part, although i dont know if ill return given my previous stuff but i might think about it some more anyways

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amaxivermis

2 months ago

Unfortunately, I realized I made a huge mistake with the lizard webring widget and used the wrong method to detect the parent iframe url which ended up throwing errors on websites other than my own, although the good news is that I fixed it a couple of hours ago today and now the widget should work 100% as intended after I checked the members

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amaxivermis updated their site.

2 months ago

index

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tabf5 2 months ago

thats a baller thumbnail

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amaxivermis

3 months ago

I don't know if I was missing something or I find it easier to build a following on this part of the web than I have on most social networks I've been on despite the latter having the audience that would be interested in my stuff the most (umm, critters y'know), perhaps with this place not only do people interact with each other more, but there's also more diversity in content too which also changed my mindset too

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

But even with everyone else being different then I can still be myself and I still have had the stuff you find on my stuff I was really into since the very start

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tabf5 3 months ago

I think it's like a combination of the amount of people on here being so low, so you value the interactions on here a lot more, mixed with the fact that there are infinite ways to build a website vs the two pictures you can set on a standard social media profile. Also all the people on here have the patience to build a website at all, making interactions super-rewarding. It all works so damn good together

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

Oh yeah making a website takes time but in hindsight it's actually a good thing. I have also personally started growing a distain of discord servers including one of my friends (no offense, he's cool) but to me it feels like nobody really cares about you until a certain point in those places and I'm someone who gives up very easily when I keep failing with no progress, but here it's like we're all in this together

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vermi1ion 3 months ago

I think a part of the appeal is that the barrier to entry is pretty high (knowing html/css, designing a layout, etc.). It feels like everyone on here appreciates each other a lot more because of how much effort we're all putting into our creations. Anyone can post on IG or Twitter but it takes a lot to make a custom site.

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win1999 2 months ago

Neocities is great. It somehow manages to pull off the old web while still having a very basic social media implementation.

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plastigon amaxivermis

3 months ago

Thanks for the follow! Checked out your site and WOW is it crazy cool. I love how your About page is literally just a desktop interface, and I was blown away with all the little "apps" and popup windows. The CD system on there is super cool too! I also really just like the Windows Vista-esque theme of your entire site in general! Brings me back to my old Acer laptop I had a while ago LOL. Awesome stuff!

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

Ayy I'm glad you liked my website :) and also your website was great too, I liked the interactivity of it and thank you for the follow back too!

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amaxivermis updated their site.

3 months ago

about-me/qna

pages/webrings

blog

blog/social-media-art-gallery

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

A new blog post, very ranty one but it's important to me and if you're very into art it's a good read for you

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

also got rss feeds for blog, art, and fun mini stuff or whatever too if you haven't figured just yet

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tabf5 3 months ago

Absolutely agreed on how bad it is when artists just store their primary entire gallery on a microblogging site that forces you to make an account half the time, mixed in with all their other personal posts and retweets and everything. I've had multiple different projects on those older sites beforehand in the past decade, and it would always end in burnout because the individual posts on there slowly dont matter. It

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tabf5 3 months ago

becomes a game of how-often-can-you-post to stay seen by others and not drown in the noise of everyone else doing the same thing. I get why it would be overwhelming for an artist to build their own gallery like a Neocities page, but they should definitely at least have an account elsewhere to browse the art like Newgrounds/Cara/others you mentioned. Also I still think RSS is too clunky but perhaps I've been spoiled

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tabf5 3 months ago

by how good the Neocities feed is. Ultimately I think the best solution for artists in the long term is new platforms like Neocities and Toyhouse and such, where they have to keep trying even if it seems like microblogging apps are the only apps to give a shit about. All microblogging apps are doomed to eventually become the shouting war other mainstream platforms are. YouTube is also slightly guilty of this

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

@tabf5 yeah I agree with you on toyhouse, newgrounds, etc being the best option since most artists don't have the skill of maintaining a website, although it's a great solution if you do which I have. And yeah i have to admit RSS is a little clunky, particularly with setting up but for me it's infinitely better than having to make many accounts just to stay in touch with the stuff I care about.

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

Either way, i think we can all agree that having to create accounts just to see information is terrible, and the problems with microblogging with you and I have faced very similar problems with you too on some microblogging sites as well, sure some are better than others, but none of them are really meant to be for art

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

I kinda misread neocities as newgrounds oops, but I still think the point applies, although either way whichever solution works best for each artist is the one that should be done

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tabf5 3 months ago

Pro tip btw: you can edit any Twitter link to xcancel .com to view profiles and tweet replies without having to make a stupid account!

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

Oh yeah i've been using nitter for quite a while, it's a massive live saver and thank god they revived it

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amaxivermis vermi1ion

3 months ago

I did a sketch of your mascot guy during a drawpile with friends: https://file.garden/aejXxcl_-hvXF5h6/sketches/vermilion-1.png

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vermi1ion 3 months ago

Dude this is so sick! Thank you!

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tabf5 3 months ago

Oh this RULES

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amaxivermis tabf5

3 months ago

I did a tabling sketch during a drawpile with friends for fun: https://file.garden/aejXxcl_-hvXF5h6/sketches/tabf5-1.png

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tabf5 3 months ago

Nice!! I feel glad to be included in the big drawpile of stuff

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amaxivermis updated their site.

3 months ago

homepage

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

Not much, but added in the increment button, you should click it every time you visit

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

now it's at 67 increments, ok this was a mistake

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

nope, not anymore :> whoever did that you got defeated unless you're the same person clicking the increment all this time

ruztbug 3 months ago

i made it 999

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

@ruztbug you've got serious dedication

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martyrgeist amaxivermis

3 months ago

Hai! I love your website! It's super interactive and cool which is so awesome :3 (PS I love Terraria too, one of my favs ever!!)

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

thank you :> and glad you're a terraria fan too

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amaxivermis

3 months ago

Oh look, I got a page about ROTRG on a game listing website [I didn't do anything at all!], it's also interesting how they refer to me as "amaxi" instead of my full username https://gamebrain.co/game/rampage-of-the-red-giant

amaxivermis

3 months ago

I'll probably change some of the images I have to be different from Windows and made by me as I would like to give my website a more unique look, but the Frutiger Aero style will stay because it's awesome

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amaxivermis updated their site.

3 months ago

index

pages/webrings

pages/intro-frame

about-me/who-am-i/likes-dislikes

about-me/who-am-i/random-crap

about-me/who-am-i/faves

about-me/who-am-i/me

about-me/who-am-i

about-me/soundtrack-analysis

about-me/qna

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

neocities shows the best thumbnails ever

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tabf5 3 months ago

GOD these wallpapers go hard

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amaxivermis ruztbug

3 months ago

by the way do you wanna add us together on some other places like discord and others? I'm not very talkative of a person but I do chat sometimes, but let me know

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ruztbug 3 months ago

yeah fs, im abioticabyss on discord

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

it's sent now!

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ruztbug amaxivermis

3 months ago

have you checked out DM dokuros bandcamp? theres a bunch of albums on there from the early 2010s that are available to download

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

Oh yeah I have a couple of times over the past couple of years. I should listen to some of his older songs more although I really liked the ballos remix from cave story

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amaxivermis

3 months ago

I'm tempted to overhaul the programs in the about me page to be more like crazy little applications now installed on a computer, it's very hard to over-engineer a website I guess

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amaxivermis

3 months ago

Added in a new member for the lizard webring, also fixed a mistake with the previous button being the same as the next button, whoops. I'll likely update that page soon with a whole new style

amaxivermis updated their site.

3 months ago

settings-frame

homepage

fun-stuff

external

contributions

blog

art

about-me

about-me/chat

gadgets/status/status

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

ok some new stuff with the puzzle gadget and customization with it too, also a chat but if you see someone named Amby in there run

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tabf5 3 months ago

love the new navbar!!!!

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amaxivermis

3 months ago

Is it just me or did the UI change? I did notice the buttons changed slightly before with the corners but this is the first time I've seen it change this much since I was here in 2024

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

Well I was on Neocities at the time, but you'll trust me that my site was completely different (and wasn't even really a website until Jan 2025) and I didn't really use it as a platform until March of this year

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dabric 3 months ago

this is the first time I've seen it change ever, and I've been here for 6 years

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tabf5 3 months ago

It absolutely looks like it did! I love the new 2010s square pfp look but I sure hope it doesn't get any more modern than this

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amaxivermis 3 months ago

@tabf5 I agree with you on the square pfp but it still at least looks different than most websites, if you read my about me you probably know I really hate modern web design lol, but this interface is fine and at least they're not like youtube ordering a bunch of unneccesary stuff off the menu when it comes to ui redesigns

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amaxivermis

3 months ago

10K VIEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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win1999 3 months ago

congrats!

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tabf5 3 months ago

five digit club baby 🤘

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