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owlroost updated Beep Bird

1 year ago

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pencilvoid pinkvampyr

1 year ago

i enjoyed your blog post about accessibility and the old web revival movement. it's a very important issue and it's nice to see people talking about it

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pinkvampyr 1 year ago

oh wow thank you so much !!!!

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owlroost ballonlea

1 year ago

Shadowban buddies :')

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pinkvampyr accessiblenet

1 year ago

as things stand right now there won't be an accessnet discord server, I don't have the time or energy to moderate one and frankly I've seen one too many cool projects go downhill because of strife in discord communities. it's just not something I'm interested in ^^;

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pinkvampyr 1 year ago

got asked about this so I figured I'd answer it here

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owlroost 1 year ago

That's more than fair! I've been a server admin before and it really is a massive undertaking that goes wrong quickly.

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pencilvoid pinkvampyr

1 year ago

thanks for following!

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pinkvampyr pencilvoid

1 year ago

your display controls are so cool!! is it ok to ask how you made it?

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pencilvoid 1 year ago

thank you! it's a combination of Javascript and static site generator tricks. you can check out the source code here: https://github.com/PencilVoid/neocities-pencilvoid

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pinkvampyr accessiblenet

1 year ago

added a new link under the "articles, essays, and blog posts" section of the resources page. “On mobile phones, the small web, and able-bodied privilege” by whiona here on neocities. says a lot of the things i've been wanting to say from the perspective of someone actually affected by it. go give it a read!

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pencilvoid owlroost

1 year ago

can't believe Neocities has killed Owl. this is so sad can we get 5 likes

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owlroost 1 year ago

Hey, I'm only half-dead. :P

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quikscript owlroost

1 year ago

Thank you for following my website and I hope that you continue to enjoy the quikscript alphabet.

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owlroost 1 year ago

I wouldn't have found it without stumbling across your site! I use Elian in my own journal, and quikscript looks like a useful addition for me. Alternate alphabets are neat.

owlroost updated Beep Bird

1 year ago

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owlroost

1 year ago

For whatever reason, Neocities isn't letting me comment on seemingly random profiles. I've confirmed it's not caused by blocking- I reached out to a site and checked on that since I was fairly sure I wasn't blocked. Unsure why this is happening.

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owlroost 1 year ago

Asked around and apparently being blocked by a few people might be enough for Neocities to do this to you on profiles that don't follow you back? I guess some folks must have blocked me. Wild that there's enough of them for this to happen, and good on them for exercising their right to view the web how they prefer to.

owlroost 1 year ago

Regardless, I can't comment on a lot of profiles now. If someone isn't following me, then I can't leave a comment on their Neocities profile at all. Others should still be able to comment on mine. If anything happens to prevent that, then my guestbook can be found on my buttons page, and email is always a solid option- feel free to email me on a whim! Owl photos get bonus points.

ballonlea 1 year ago

You're shadowbanned! Just like me

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dontaskforfroyo 1 year ago

you can allow or disallow all comments on a profile as a site owner. are we sure this isn't about that?

pinkvampyr whiona

1 year ago

what a cute little website aaaaa I love it tysm for the follow

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whiona 1 year ago

thank YOU for the follow back! :> your site is so cute too - love the pink and black! Also, I really appreciated the resources you compiled on the Accessible Net directory. They have been super handy.

pinkvampyr ophanimkei

1 year ago

I love everything about your site so much!!! its so pretty and unique

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ophanimkei 1 year ago

Thank you so much T_T I appreciate it a lot!! I put a lot of care into it so I'm happy you think it's pretty and unique!!

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owlroost debtdeath

1 year ago

Neocities isn't letting me reply on accessiblenet, so I'm responding here re:Javascript; I know some folks turn it off because Javascript is often used in privacy-violating ways on the corporate web. User experience and performance are another reason: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/i-turned-off-javascript-for-a-whole-week-and-it-was-glorious/

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debtdeath 1 year ago

interesting!

pinkvampyr accessiblenet

1 year ago

another tip: consider adding a splash page/landing page to your website to let people know about any content warnings as well as if they need to have javascript enabled to use any accessibility features ^^

pinkvampyr 1 year ago

many people (such as myself) often have JavaScript disabled by default, so it's nice to know if I'm gonna need to turn it on to be able to pause gifs/change layout/etc.

debtdeath 1 year ago

curious, what's the reason for disabling js by default? im pretty pro-js (probs also bc i make browser games and js is often a backbone for that) and i dont really understand the aversion

jasm1nii 1 year ago

as a pro-JS person, i think the main issue is with privacy and security, since JS can is also used for tracking visitors if a webmaster has analytics enabled; CDNs also collect user data from the sites they're installed on. and if the CDN is ever compromised, that also poses a risk to every site running those scripts.

jasm1nii 1 year ago

of course, this can be mitigated by setting the appropriate security headers and hashes, but this isn't common knowledge for a lot of people, let alone novice web devs.

pinkvampyr 1 year ago

pretty much what Jasmine said! I often forget to turn JS on for individual sites so it's a nice reminder, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I'm okay turning it on as long as I feel the site is safe or it has features that require JavaScript to function

pinkvampyr 1 year ago

of course I would say people with things like photosensitivity may feel like they can't afford to turn off JavaScript because of things like that, but I think it's just a nice to have just in case you know :^)

pixelglade 1 year ago

The noscript tag can let you inform users if JavaScript is required on a page

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qrunchysnaq 1 year ago

I've been considering implementing a splash page, even though I don't love them personally. This is a good argument for doing so since I use JS for major features that I don't know how to code without it. Thanks for the tip!

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canina updated Dingo’s Den

1 year ago

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leilukin updated Leilukin's Hub

1 year ago

pixelglade owlroost

1 year ago

Hey owlroost, this is scopefilter's other site. Your site design is so relaxing to look at.

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owlroost 1 year ago

Thank you! It's shifted a lot over the last two years, but I'm pretty happy with it at the moment.

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scopefilter owlroost

1 year ago

Hi owlroost, thank you for following. I know there isn't a lot on my site right now but I'm hoping to fix that in future. Your reader mode page was very informative, I actually wasn't aware the article tag was used to tell browsers reader mode was available and now I think a future update for my blog is to add tags. So thank you for writing that. 😇

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owlroost 1 year ago

I'm glad I was able to help! I really appreciated your site when I stumbled across it. It's very rare that a site doesn't overwhelm me to some degree, and yours actually feels comfortable (largely because as it says, it's not visually noisy; everything there has a purpose, and there's ample space to breathe). I'd say you succeeded at making it easy to follow!

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scopefilter 1 year ago

Thanks a lot, that's what I was aiming for. 😊 Happy to know it functions as described on the box.

dontaskforfroyo 1 year ago

on supporting firefox reader view, you both might appreciate this link: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1140969

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leilukin updated Leilukin's Hub

1 year ago

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