Neocities.org
neocities is being tremendously slow for me. anyone else affected? if so, looks like another wave of crawlers is on the loose...
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astrossoundhell
3 weeks ago
added my pride weekend fit. it's been so long since i wore actual not-lazy decora!!! i wish i could stop working and live life a little bit more. I'm also nearly done with neomanager, so soon enough i will be redeploying this gallery and the kandi museum with that -- maybe then i will post more stuff, since it's gonna be more immediate...
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astrossoundhell
1 month ago
Stability shit + logging/checksumming added. The tampered saves can still be forged back into "clean" ones, though - try to do that if you wish for a small challenge!
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astrossoundhell
1 month ago
(don't worry, i don't get to see anything time-related unless you send me your save. it's there mostly to help me recreate the sequence of events in case of a crash)
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astrossoundhell
1 month ago
Oh, also now save files are LZ-compressed and take waaaay less space than the b64 overhead hell it was before, even with logging and all. It's insane how much a good compression algorithm can do. Obviously, the implementation of THIS thing is by someone else, i'm no good with complex algorithms.
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woag,,, apparently i've been on neocities for about 7 years by now
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astrossoundhell
2 months ago
This is a collage generator (hence collagen) WIP. It's not linked anywhere on the site because it's a buggy piece of flaming garbage for now, but it sort of works already, so go have fun if you'd like to. i already made a stupid pink Amy Rose collage in it, nice. It craps itself when rendering online-hosted files though.
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astrossoundhell
2 months ago
Remembered that internet is for having fun and doing whatever and decided to make a Splatoon page! It's somewhere between a shrine and a personal corner. Pretty happy with how the visuals turned out! I want to add more stuff, but i'll do that later - too excited to postpone sharing, to exhausted to work on it more :'D
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astrossoundhell
2 months ago
I started on it because actually i want to write short music reviews. But, you see, for that i have to have a blog subsystem, which i didn't finish coding yet. And since i'm a nerd and a freak, i guess i'll have to temporarily put showing music that i like and gushing over how good it is to some other random places on my site.
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angelnetcast
2 months ago
this is so cool!!!! splatoon is one of my favs, i love seeing other peoples pages for it. (and that reminds me i should theme mine lol)
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absolutely in love with aubery's deisgn and amen glitterbomb was a fun listen!! i wanna come back and look at ALICE when i have more time but your website is super cool!
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astrossoundhell
2 months ago
another ALICE update. lots of new stuff but most people aren't here for this really. i wish i did more with the site but 2 and a half jobs are tearing my ass off lmao
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badgraph1csghost
2 months ago
are you kidding me rn? a tgirl engineer who makes her own vco's and has a logic simulator on her website, how could anyone NOT be here for this? (no sarcasm, deadly serious)
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astrossoundhell
3 months ago
Got flooded with bug reports from students, so, ALICE bugfixes again. A couple already found stuff so interesting i have no clear idea how to fix it so far :D funny.
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astrossoundhell
3 months ago
i probably should've developed the thing for another year before feeding it to the students tbh. It's remarkable how many GUI stuff they ran into which are not exactly bugs, but also are counterintuitive if i think about it pretending to not be myself... needless to say, i'm piled with bug reports that are not written in requested form and don't reproduce, too :D fuck this shit lmao
Same for me too. :(
I thought it was just me, but I guess not. Hopefully its nothing too serious..
yesss i was really confused as to why shit was loading so slowly! glad it's not just me
most likely ai bots
yeah, it's most certainly ai crawlers scraping our websites for their slop machines. i'm not sure how come kyle not have done anything about it, i'm starting to feel like even neocities is not the internet i dreamt of. sad shit
In all honesty, I don't think you should rely on a singular website of being the internet you dreamt of. The internet I dreamt of is being a sprawling chaotic mess of individuality, covered on many corners of the web. That's the web I grew up with. Just like Geocities when it was still alive, it wasn't the only thing on the web. Shit, I remember old Angelfire sites, and self-hosted sites.
@tsugato i don't see logic. NC is a hosting with additional (barely relevant) features. A hosting first and foremost, for people to run their own unique separate sites on. Are you saying i should instead pay for 5 hostings and run 5 different websites for whichever reason? I think a better solution is to at least attempt preventing crawlers from abusing this one hosting, which is supposedly what i pay for.
Neocities is not a "website". it's literally a "hosting" with *a bit* of "social networking" screwed on top of it, which at least i barely use. I see it as a perfect middle ground solution for user-made web, but now the AI bots are making my site unusable. How is this a problrem of using a popular hosting? Diversifying my choices will do jack shit, not like neokweb etc aren't scraped. This crap is everywhere.
I'm not saying you should be running 5 hosts or jumping ship from Neocities. I was just pointing out how the old web was more fragmented, which gave it resilience. I totally get the frustration with the current wave of AI trash scraping everything, we're on the same page there. I just don’t think Neocities alone can carry the dream of a better internet if it gets bottlenecked by this kind of bullshit.
Also, I agree 100000000% on the fact, that Neocities should be preventing any sorts of AI scraping. It messes with a LOT of SHIT.