oooh please do elaborate, i wasn't there in 2018 but i have always gotten this vague feeling that there is an Old Guard that i have never really interacted with but whose sites inexplicably have hundreds of followers

*desire to know more intensifies*

there was that one bug guy who i originally followed because their site seemed cool but it turned out to be at the perfect time for a shitton of drama so i quietly unfollowed, thats all i care to know

Yeah I joined in April 2020, this community is still super new to me

IDK, a lot of the big guys used to all be in a discord server together, then one day abruptly all accused each other of being terrible lying human beings and mostly moved their sites off neocities. I like the more random, decentralized feel here now

Never expected Neocities of all places to have drama.

yeah, i joined right at the tail end of the og main bunch's tenure on here, right when the dissent was reaching its peak,, i cringe remembering how invested i was into it back then lol,,, now it's a whole new gang

shes a character from an artsy experimental anime that talks about technology and identity or something (i havent seen it)

because she is an anime with technology

spooky gorl who invented ARGs and the simulation theory (i havent seen the anime)

Thanks! It's been by slow degrees but it's come a long way since 2018. Glad you're back!!

no, and I actually had to Google what that was. contrary to what everything about me would suggest I don't know much about "music"

that sounded needlessly sarcastic but in all honesty it's hilarious that my internet presence has become so centered around music opinions when I still think of myself as a visual art person

h-how

I listen to all my music on YouTube or on CDs I own (which also means my Spotify Wrapped is always meaningless)

well, yeah, your website has a whole lot a lot of nifty pages and subdirectories to explore, great featured art, a charming theme, and a set of featured interests that a lot of people here share. congratulations!

kyle intentionally broke the follower count organizer so its a free for all now :P

this is one of the funniest things ever and my money has gone to the Okra Project via this already

all tmbg fans following me: this is required listening, the bonus track at the very least

incredible

OH GOD I JUST SAW THIS AKJSDHFJADHF

so are 1/3 of *all* personal websites though surely

really? imo 1/3 of neocities sites are just a front page that says "ive migrated to [their website with a top-level domain] (click here to view website archive)"

i would bet 1/3 of all neocities sites are just the default page with maybe two lines and the background changed (and last updated november 2017)

oh if we're counting people who never actually did anything with their site then sites like that are probably in the 80% range

I thought it was just one page saying "Hi I'm [name] these are my socials" and nothing else.

@scifirenegade I feel like that's kind of a legitimate use of a neocities site though, an "about me" page collecting someone's links. It's disappointing but feels like less of an a tease or empty promise

God, I hate those "My name is _ here are my socials" sites. Like, just make a linktree and be done with it, it's not that hard.

realistic simulation of geocities, though! if you do not follow olia lialina on twitter, i would encourage it, she posts many great old web sites, many of which have this same message https://twitter.com/GIFmodel/status/1351053604195622914

I can't bring myself to *hate* any type of site really

Except 90s/Geocities nostalgia sites. Those are going to hell

hate nostalgia sites? careful now, them's the kind of words that'll make you enemies in this here town *tilts brim of stetson, bartender yells at me to stop pretending to be a cowboy and would you please buy a drink or get out*

@marijnflorence Well, that's most of the sites on this host. Although, I wish some "nostalgia" sites went for a web aesthetic other than 90s internet

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hey, who said it was easy. I'm working on that redesign!! (see you in 2022)

make it 2025