you're welcome swift ^^ it's hard to stay optimistic some days, but i try. im glad to know some of that optimism might be rubbing off on people, because we could all use a little hope for the future these days. 😊

I use FL Studio to make my midi files. first i make an outline using sforzando and an sf2 version of the midi wavetable, then i convert it and save it.

i moved that wplace thing to the microblog

oh dang I had no idea. thank you for sharing! I appreciate how transparent you are with the stuff you learn!

considering how this is the weapon that half the internet is using to silence trans women right now, you can understand my concern

I feel optimistic that similar to all the anti-ai things that have been invented there will be ways created that can circumvent this. even if its an external library. It just means we'll have to be really vigilant about the code we use and when

it's part of the admin console unfortunately, so the only way around it that seems at all feasible is ensuring the neocities moderators continue to see trans women as real people and not just targets they can shoot at for some easy social media cred

nonetheless, i'll definitely be downloading archival copies of my site more often at this point.

added a dream diary and a homepage button for it. also wrote in the unlinked diary page and in the microblog.

finished the emulation page for the n64 shrine!

they're not the best-looking templates ever, it's just basic HTML designed to get you interested in learning more about it. the Y2K template goes into more detail about CSS than the neocities one does.

Note: the slash before filename is, in fact, needed. A slash without a dot before it refers to the server root. So e.g. there's "logo.png" at server root and a "data/shrines/splatoon/index.html", from which you can src logo.png as ../../../logo.png (going up each folder), or simply /logo.png (refer to absolute server root). I even have a longread on these: https://auberylis.moe/webtut/dotslash/

(the reason it's used in the old template is because there's one "neocities.png" on the server, right at root, but the template will be the same when created in any kind of subfolder chain. and so each time it will successfully refer to the one and only default neocities.png from the server root. Same reason for /style.css in head - locate the same stylesheet at the server root from anywhere in its file structure)

wait... they got rid of the page template that taught me HTML???? WTF???? (THANK YOU FOR SAVING IT THOUGH!)

@aubery The pedantic way to do this of course is not to use /file.type on root at all and only use it when you need to (like what i do :P). a side effect of learning HTML on old-time MSIE

@jaiden The template was the most endearing bit of the whole host, unlike nekoweb where they just give you a totally blank document and say "here figure it out yourself, stupid". but just like how microsoft axed minesweeper and brought it back as a paid app, the way of today is to change everything for the worse -___-

you're like jesus to me

thank you for keeping this template available! i wonder what made them choose to change their template to a barebone one

@nathan idk, the commit summary was vague but it seemed pretty clear that kd was going to replace the old template with a new blank page. oh well, this is the man who wouldn't install anubis into his servers to protect everyone from ai scrapers, so take that how you will.

cos now, you've got to have a working knowledge of html in order to make anything. before, you had a template to change and build upon. now what do you get? nothing.

I actually found the new pages having code by default a bit annoying. But I agree, the change does suck for new users. Wish they kept the default page design, with the option to turn it off in the settings if you want blank documents.

i could upload a copy of the template to my site, and just leave it as a resource that others can copy/paste onto their sites!