To be fair I like the idea of decentralization which you might know why, which is why I started trying out Matrix, though I have heard the situation on the fediverse culturally is a bit different from what I have seen

I know Bluesky is decentralized though, but if atproto is under this leadership it leaves me worried, but maybe i should try fediverse soon, but you could give your experience so far

the fedi is culturally different, but so far i'd say i've had a good time. i'd say it's very much more small. like on atproto, the closest thing to an instance usually tries to index the entire damn network, so you can see everyone. it seems that's not much of a thing on the fediverse.

like i'm on merping.synth.download. it's a small instance, and while i *can* follow anyone on the fediverse, the instance isn't aware of everyone, and other instances by default don't know i exist. so people can only really find me via reposts, and the trending page is sometimes just a single post of a guy's dog. i thought it would be limiting, but it's kinda more cozy to me i feel ...

I see, i personally prefer smaller communities anyways since i tend to find the content i'd find interesting and big ones are just overstimulating and shallow imo, though none of my friends I have on discord and stuff use it unfortunately, but i could give it a shot one day

video of an unfinished prototype I've made, having the stars orbit my cursor: https://blacksky.app/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:ehveh472f6vvuklgjgb7t7lc&cid=bafkreibmqaiswkj3e5k7nioiwoiwr5dgsctkn54rtveuzmmzqyp5n5esga

kinda pivoting to more of a streamlined portfolio, but positive or negative, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the redesign currently ...

rounded dabric.........

The video doesnt play but this redesign looks cozy so far. Definitely more portfolio-feeling than a personal site for sure, though some non-standard UI can make it personal again. I like personal sites more personally since we're on Neocities and not LinkedIn trying to get hired, but that's just one opinion

oh sicknasty

marquee not working in a major browser is almost always a bug. like, despite being deprecated, it still remains in the HTML5 standard. i don't foresee it being out-right removed anytime soon. it's against the spirit of the web to break websites.

if they ever just completely stop supporting marquee i say we riot

wah! another lizard? where can i see ...

one could say it's tabtally tabular

It continues to surprise me whenever I see people even put their tabling right on their HOMEPAGE, like I never thought a little custom gift for following me would stick around and reverberate around Neocities for so long. It's really really cool, and I hope someone else on Neocities does something similar too! Though @astersarchive did do a pretty neat pixel art pizza party sort-of event page

Signed, The "dabric" Brick

too many times i get stuck because i don't like the current version. but redoing the current version means i need a Post page and a Scripts page and also the Links page but also the Gallery page so it's just in development hell and never sees the light of day

i feel kinda tangled in my legacy stuff. i think i should get just rid of it honestly. but i feel like i'm doing a disservice doing that

you could just archive this and then start from scratch, maybe even entire scratch without a layout and hear yourself out, see where you'll land. don't get stuck in the image of yourself you've made years ago — if it doesn't serve you no more, if it doesn't feel like home, build a new one. Its alright!

ye burn your house down. make smores. then rise from the ashes.

If you do rebuild it, I'd recommend trying to build it back up to something simple. When I tried to make my site I tried to do it in a way where I didn't commit to a crazy layout so I can just leave the design alone until the end of time, letting me focus on putting stuff on my pages rather than tweaking the UI stuff around them. Hope that helps idk!

Good luck to you wherever you decide to go with it. I just gotta say what you've made is beautiful. It makes me want to see more of your stuff, in this thing or in another thing.