Neocities

zhongvie

1 month ago

wow they actually reversed the reblog update for tumblr

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yogomagpie 1 month ago

omg I wasted so much of my day reblogging and leaving comments and sending them emails. I'm so tired lol

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angelnetcast 1 month ago

thank god, actual worst update ever

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katbots 1 month ago

i do not entirely trust it tbh, the "we'll work on it and get back to you" phrasing doesnt fill me with confidence. but im glad the walked it back for now at least!

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zhongvie 1 month ago

oh yeah i have zero trust in them anyway so im squint side-eyeing them but im genuinely surprised they rolled it back LMFAO i was so sure theyd cover their ears and dig their heels in

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gramophoneturtle 1 month ago

Honestly I can see them rolling it back if not from the pushback but from how many things it broke! And with enough people threatening to leave and putting a dent into what money they were earning off of them...yeah. "At least" their tone is clear that they will continue down this path again, just differently

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zhongvie updated aid's small corner

1 month ago

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zhongvie

1 month ago

HAHA WOOO learning json slowly and for loops to remake my template page and easily just plug in the urls/img deets to make new lil boxes ... Slowly(tm)

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1 month ago

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zhongvie

1 month ago

pov watching tumblr lighting itself again on fire by literally making every reblog now the equivalent of a twitter quote tweet (no more shared reblog notes, ppl get their own notes/notifs on reblogs and not OP). hell site (tbf its on fire for many reasons including transphobia but yknow another canister of oil added on top today)

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figurea 1 month ago

one could say it’s tumbling downward

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zhongvie 1 month ago

decade long ass tumble LOOOOOL fr though

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starry-faun 1 month ago

how long before xkit rewritten somehow manages to fix this too-

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zhongvie 1 month ago

no even april (xkit's maker) literally posted like 'sorry not even xkit can fix this' LOL

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keysklubhouse 1 month ago

wha... why the hell would they do that

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starry-faun 1 month ago

oof...let's hope they end up backpedaling on this then with the amount of backlash they seem to be getting

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zhongvie 1 month ago

:skull: i have low hopes of them backpedalling ... would be an actual miracle if somehow it does work but im not holding my breath. seriously, what a useless update tho, i dont see the point of it

y2kstardust 1 month ago

YEAH... i'm so tired of this. hoping the backlash makes them rethink it but i will 100% be using this to plug neocities as an alternative jic i lose ANOTHER FUCKING PLATORM :')

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harakanvarpu 1 month ago

They have addressed the strong reaction from people, so I hope they'll at the very least make it an optional thing the OP of each post can choose to use or not. Better send them feedback through. The more feedback, the more likely they will listen.

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zhongvie skeliana

1 month ago

holy crap ur art is absolutely GORGEOUS, your up the mountain piece is beautiful as heck

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skeliana 1 month ago

thank you!!!! ur site is soo clean and your OC's design is so cool!!

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harakanvarpu zhongvie

1 month ago

Heyy could you explain a bit what 11ty is and what do you use it for? :0 👉👈 I checked their site but I got overwhelmed and confused dsshjdhjf;;

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zhongvie 1 month ago

it basically ‘builds’ your site for you, and it easier to reuse chunks/templates without having to rewrite entire code portions or using javascript to do it (like my site rn uses javascript to spit out my header/sidebar/footer, 11ty does it for you instead)

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zhongvie 1 month ago

it definitely is a bit of a learning curve right now even for me, but it also makes it easier to make pages; i could write a page is just markdown, add a couple doodads like telling 11ty ‘hey can you use my normal site template?’ and it’ll just build and spit the site out with all the proper HTML + your markdown into proper HTML text

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zhongvie 1 month ago

wow i should not write when half asleep bahaha. petrapixel has a pretty thorough tutorial on it, but it’s definitely a learning curve rn to kinda understand what i can do, can’t, and how the fuck some other stuff works. it’s why i avoided 11ty until now since im wanting to redo my layout/gut my site from 0

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harakanvarpu 1 month ago

Ooh, okay, sounds cool! Probably too fancy for me atm but I'm eager to hear how it works for you :D

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zhongvie

1 month ago

HAHA PROGRESSS i gotta figure out where and what to use JSON for ... i know my art gallery could do with it ... i could use variables for my OC pages...? i gotta keep mucking with 11ty, but i'm slowly remaking pages: https://i.ibb.co/TMG2NtCq/site2-ezgif-com-resize.gif

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zhongvie 1 month ago

sorry yall on my weird rambling journey rn LMAO, it makes it easier to offload thoughts here since it IS website specific

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skep 1 month ago

I made like seven blog posts the weekend I did mine so I think you're good

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tofutush 1 month ago

i used a huge-ass json file for my characters, but as the count grew theres a huge maintenance overhead and generally doing that decreases flexibility. so i dont super recommend it? (i ended up writing a whole ass custom program for me to edit the json)

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tofutush 1 month ago

but gallery with json is super nice, you can filter & include images and put them anywhere (one gallery.json and one gallery.liquid (or .njk) and you call the include file with any part of the gallery you wish!) ive a blog post on this iirc

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tofutush 1 month ago

also do check out 11ty-image plugin, it can auto-resize

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zhongvie

1 month ago

wait 11ty means i can make a json list of all my oomfies on here and make it easier to update my neighbours page… HAHAHA YESSS YESS (sicko window meme)

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zhongvie

1 month ago

hell of a lot simpler of a layout but i'm doing it scoob ... i'm 11ty-ing: https://i.ibb.co/pvmLTr8L/site.gif

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zhongvie 1 month ago

sighs debating if i should put lil 'sections' around chunks like i have it on my site now, or leave it bare bones ... (though it makes it a little harder to differentiate sections)

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zhongvie 1 month ago

sighs i’m still very torn. this layout makes it harder to have all my lil dinkies and pixels and lil fun sidebar of stuff … grr i’ll continue pondering. maybe i should try to 11ty my current layout as well for funsies. yada yada head full it’s 3am

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zhongvie 1 month ago

nvm i’ve figured out how to get the lil mini sidebar… damn it’s that fuckin easy to just have a ‘if this variable is true then include this’ in a template????? it does shrink my main content down a bit for the index but eh, my current layout already does that…

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zhongvie updated aid's small corner

1 month ago

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zhongvie

1 month ago

HAHA GOOD NEWS figured out a way to squeak in styling and scripts per page basis. its a little weird but you can set up a {{ styles | safe }} portion in the base template like this example: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/discussions/2506

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skep zhongvie

1 month ago

On second thought, another idea. You don't need to make a page use a layout if you don't want to, so if you just have a regular HTML file with your one-off style and no front matter, 11ty will just copy it over as-is.

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zhongvie 1 month ago

problem is i tend to use the same layout, its more for one off tiny things like… my games layout on my about page or the table i use on my bookmarks :think:

zhongvie

1 month ago

11ty is definitely making me feel stupid in trying to just remake my random quote generator using a JSON file and trying to spit it out thru JS into the nunjucks template for a blockquote ...

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zhongvie 1 month ago

IT USES THE STUPID FILE NAME AND NOT THE OUTPUT VARIABLE U GIVE IT???? im gonna explode. THATS ALL IT NEEDED WAS TO MAKE SURE ITS THE FILE NAME OF THE JS FILE??????

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zhongvie 1 month ago

AUGH NVM this is useless since it only refreshes when i build it. i guess i'll just need to rawdog it back to HTML/JS for THAT at least

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tofutush 1 month ago

wait does it not auto update when you save the file? are you serving it or just building it?

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zhongvie 1 month ago

no auto updating, i’m just rawdogging it rn in a folder to just muck with it and building it

zhongvie

1 month ago

huh ... fuckin around with 11ty and its actually not ... too bad...? i managed to recreate my test style i did last night. i still need to figure out how it'd handle minor local CSS stuff (cause some pages i have one-off CSS that i dont use anywhere else so i just put it in a style tag) but i can see the appeal of it for sites

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tofutush 1 month ago

come in the cult... (yeah honestly idk how to handle one-off styles either i just plop them into the page so the end result has a style tag in the middle of main lol

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skep 1 month ago

Hmm, for one-off style tags... my first thought is moving each to its own CSS file, then specifying in the front matter of the page if it should pull in a different CSS. Could be better ways, but yeah, kinda tricky.

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zhongvie 1 month ago

hmm ... i'll have to fuck around ... idm plopping in the style tags but it is a minor annoyance if so, i usually try to avoid too many CSS files if i can :skull:

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falsedawn 1 month ago

11ty is great it lets you do so much

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zhongvie

1 month ago

sometimes i toy with the idea of going to a simpler layout like this but i'd be losing out on the decorative goodies i like ... at least it kinda scratched some itch to work on a layout, even if its just a simplified version of my current one: https://i.ibb.co/MDbN8rb1/image.png (actually maybe not i am genuinely considering maybe changing it to this, but idk how id organize my dinkies like my dragcave pixels)

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3maqi 1 month ago

hmm maybe u could still use it and add on some decorative goodies as you see fit

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zhongvie 1 month ago

mayhaps ... this is more to scratch an itch rn of wanting to rehaul LMAOO and me avoiding that by just making a layout for funsies

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zhongvie 1 month ago

sighs if i do decide to try a rehaul maybe it’ll give me an excuse to begin with 11ty from the beginning

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gremlin 1 month ago

I'm constantly fighting the urge to make my site into simple html documents with little to no css so I get it lol

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zhongvie 1 month ago

what an actual mood too LMAOOO cursed to want uniqueness/fun things but then the simplicity of not finangling with css and js…

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zhongvie

1 month ago

some evil part of me sometimes wants to rip my whole site apart and begin from zero with a new layout but im like no ... das too much work ... forever cursed with the itch to redo layouts/stuff but stubborn to want to stick with my layouts ive had forever, it is Evil

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ch3sca 1 month ago

what if you give the devil a new canvas and let it run wild? (perhaps create a separate new site) :>

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zhongvie 1 month ago

no energy to maintain two, but i may end up making a new project thru my code editor and just muck around w/prototyping a layout in that for funsies 🤔

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zhongvie 1 month ago

maybe i'll try to remake my fave tumblr theme im currently using but as an actual site layout and not a tumblr layout (kinda in the same vein my layout is rn for my own blog, but just a bit different)

tofutush 1 month ago

same, same...

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3maqi 1 month ago

felt. I like my site but there are some things I really want to redo

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nicegirlslumber 1 month ago

This literally happens to me the millisecond I'm finished with my site 😭🤛

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floralchai 1 month ago

I'm gonna keep my layout like that honestly. Only fixed a few things that needed to be update

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angelnetcast 1 month ago

this is why i made my layouts site, so i could make new layouts w/o having to mess w stuff on my site but letting others use it so they don't gather dust :p

zhongvie

1 month ago

ok ... i did end up adding a little box to my friend's book on the index. ended up archiving some pages i havent updated in quite a little bit (mostly my minecraft forever world, food log, microblog, and sims 3 legacy). they'll most likely return when i pick them up again, but i need to clear my site a lil bit of WIP pages rn :pensive:

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zhongvie

1 month ago

i wonder if it'd be too weird to link to the book my friend is publishing on my site ... like a lil tiny box like 'hey if u like dark fantasy books check out the book i helped my friend publish/did cover art for' UASDHASDU

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silliestgoose-online 1 month ago

I think it's fine. Shouting out our friends' good work is something I support at least :p

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zhongvie 1 month ago

bahaha to explain im usually just very self critical abt promoting myself on personal things, it always feels very weird to me ... but since it's my friend and i want her to succeed as an author, it's why im like ... thonk. i know its my own site after all, im just musing out loud

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zhongvie 1 month ago

@silliestgoose-online thank u... mostly just thinking out loud more than anything!!!

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monsterousseas 1 month ago

i made a lil section promoing my friends on my neighbors page. how i think of it is that a big part of the indie web is removing the need for an algorithm, and this is a great way to direct people to other content they may like in an intentional, human way!