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wayrift octobersapprentice

1 week ago

Thanks so much for the follow!

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ninacti0n

1 week ago

After lots of pondering and measuring some thoughts, I've made my decision: I'll be leaving Neocities. The community has changed a lot since the time I'd joined, and part of me feels it's time for me to move on to other web ventures and communities. I send lots of hugs to the Neo-veterans that stood with me since the first updates, and to all the folks that joined me in this as well. You're all very talented <3

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ninacti0n 1 week ago

It was a very wild journey being here, and while I still like many sites and artists from here, I need to focus on my mental health, my life, and other things. That doesn't mean I'll be abandoning my site endeavors, I'll just be elsewhere... taking care of my stuffs, and running after the spark that brought me so close to web design to begin with.

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corvidoodle 1 week ago

oh this is sad to hear, but i hope you have fun with whatever endeavors you end up doing!

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ninacti0n 1 week ago

I was even trying to write a blog post on this, but I feel it's better to write it here anyways, so ye

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ninacti0n 1 week ago

@corvidoodle Yeah, it really is... but I feel it's something I need to do, like turning a new leaf or starting off a new moment in my artist's path. I'm hoping for the very best

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azuretom 1 week ago

Wishing you the best!

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error-666 1 week ago

i can tell the community has grown and became more mainstream than what it originally was. i knew someone who was on neocities about when you created your site and i was inspired by him to do the same

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ninacti0n 1 week ago

@azuretom Thank you so much!! I wish you the best as well :]

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ninacti0n 1 week ago

@error-666 In a very odd way, the way some people would yap on status updates nowadays was reminding me a lot of text posts I would see on Bluesky or Twitter. Back then, things felt a lot more casual, I think - just people giving simple updates on their pages, and this whole thing of the community feeling tightly knit and fun. I was inspired by my friend Lu to do it, and it completely changed my mind!

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error-666 1 week ago

@ninacti0n i've also noticed that. i don't blame you for escaping an environment where it feels like there's pressure to perform or have a "presence". that kind of shit i also cannot stand. i hope you get on a new cool thing that feels like what neocities was for you even if it ends up being pretty different!

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underwhite 1 week ago

very sad to see you leaving the community :( you can still send status updates here still and redirect to your new domain, right? I can assure you turning a new leaf over is a great decision, keep it up bro

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ninacti0n 1 week ago

@error-666 Yeah, definitely! As someone who's experienced the social media cycle and is beginning to pick up the signs here, I wish to unwind and go towards something simpler. I was thinking about 32-bit cafe, since its aimed at adults who enjoy web designing, but I'm also on the lookout for some other fun forums. I'm already hosting my site on HelioHost, so I'm chill with that

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jiobutler 1 week ago

I'm really sad to hear this. Glad you're leaving the site up, I still can't wait to see what you get up to next :)

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ninacti0n 1 week ago

@jiobutler Yeah, I know it's quite sad... but don't see this as a goodbye, it's just me moving to live elsewhere ;] I hope you all keep things fun and silly around here, I was browsing through you folks' pages last night, and I'm amazed with all the different works that made their way into here ^^

andyssite

1 week ago

Added tabs for my horsies & garden, also added alt text to (most, not art) images

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meandercomic updated Home - ✧˖°. meander .°˖✧

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ninacti0n geoledgy

1 week ago

Oh, hello there! I randomly saw one of your posts on Bsky and remembered you had a Neocities! Love your art and how passionate you are about geology! I should take a proper peek at your stuff soon <3 Wish you the best!

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geoledgy 1 week ago

Hello! So nice to hear from you :] Wishing you well also, I just saw your recent status update and I hope you'll take care of yourself

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ninacti0n 1 week ago

@geoledgy Thank you very much, I greatly appreciate the wishes! I'm just hoping it all goes well... I'm still greatly apprehensive, but I feel it must be done

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andyssite

1 week ago

I am Yaoislop

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ninacti0n

1 week ago

Welp, I managed to get the banners figured out, but now my other question is animated 3D fonts... I tried finding stuff that felt like those authentic 90s gifs on GifCities, but I haven't had much luck yet. Do you folks know of any fun ones?

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error-666 1 week ago

i was talking about this with some people on a discord server! i think if you had gifs for each letter, you could make a javascript that places down gifs with some spacing given a string. maybe worth a try

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ninacti0n 1 week ago

@error-666 Hmm, that does sound interesting! Though part of me feels it would prolly be easier to just animate em in Blender :p

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ninacti0n 1 week ago

I'm currently testing that actually... I tried making a basic choppy spin, and I think it's doable!

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pxhc 1 week ago

for just old style https://cooltext.com/ https://www.flamingtext.com/ and for 3d effects https://3dtext2gif.com/ https://www.3dgifmaker.com/

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ninacti0n 1 week ago

Okay, I did find a way! This text animator lets you use many fonts, and has a handful of parameters to pick from- https://www.textstudio.com/text-animator You can then edit it on Ezgif to get the cropping right

ninacti0n 1 week ago

@pxhc Oh, lemme go check some of these... I do know cooltext and flamingtext, they're great x] 3dgifmaker is my beloved

pretty-posters 1 week ago

When I use 3D fonts, I mainly go on dafonts site for 3D style fonts to use in photoshop but I don't know how to animate them.

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ninacti0n 1 week ago

@pretty-posters That's a very interesting strategy, I think! I'll be using those sites for now, but I'll be sure to keep that idea in mind too ^^

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testruncomic updated TESTRUN

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ninacti0n

1 week ago

Late night question but- do any of you guys know of a good resource or place that has those old web banners? I wanted some silly ones for inspiration, for my Links page...

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ninacti0n 1 week ago

I've tried finding these before, but to no avail... I only saw them in a few sites, and also in the NeoNeighborhoods page.

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foggybear42 1 week ago

you might be able to find some at https://gifcities.org!

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slashdiv 1 week ago

like advertising banners?

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linwood 1 week ago

this page has a whole bunch! https://magneticdogz.neocities.org/media/graphics/web-banners

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ninacti0n 1 week ago

@slashdiv Yeah, like those old ones people used to have in their sites ^^

ninacti0n 1 week ago

@linwood @foggybear42 I'll be sure to check these thoroughly! I already browsed GifCities a bit, so it'll be lots of fun :] I'll be down to checking other places if you guys have some links

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pretty-posters 1 week ago

I mainly find blinkies from adrian's blinkie collection on neocities. If I recall, they also have buttons and stamps that give off a web banner feel?

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pretty-posters 1 week ago

Here is the full site's domain: https://adriansblinkiecollection.neocities.org/

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