$DIR>EMPTINESS

dir.emptiness.io

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this site is fuckin nuts. good shit man
How do you do this. The idea for this is wonderful and you do it well. Hope to see more sites with this approach. i keep coming back
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diremptiness's avatar diremptiness 3 hours ago

A big part of it comes from the very strict design rules I placed on myself in making it. Something I've taken away from listening to designers, musicians, and most anyone in the creative space is that limitations breed creativity. From there it's just a lot of trying shit out until it works haha

Your site goes so hard and it shows Now I just need to find your site button
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diremptiness's avatar diremptiness 12 hours ago

They're located if you navigate to links.html > 88x31.html They're made entirely out of code and no images and can be a little janky depending on your layout, I found that sometimes adding a "display: inline-block" or "display: block"to the button's main div tag will help things out, and if it partially fixes it but is slightly lower than normal a "top: -10px" will adjust that as well.

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diremptiness's avatar diremptiness 12 hours ago

Alternatively you can also just screenshot one of the buttons once you select them and use that image instead, it's unreasonable to expect folks to also follow my arbitrary design rules

Took a small break from the Pride Theme project to work on the really unnecessary "recreate other people's buttons with only HTML and CSS" project. Today's addition is the No AI Webring button.
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diremptiness updated their site.
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diremptiness's avatar diremptiness 14 hours ago

Made the No AI Webring button in HTML and CSS

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I LOVE THE DESIGN OF YOUR SITE!!! this is so so kewl :3
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I want to say if you are a fan of pop girls and also a fan of legendary rock band The Cure, you should know that Olivia Rodrigo and Robert Smith did a track together on Olivia's new album and the track fucking SLAPS
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adiosmazzy's avatar adiosmazzy 1 day ago

the whole album is so good!

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one of the coolest sites i saw in here, noice stuff man
Updated meatspace.html with a theme selector, including the Genderfluid Pride Flag colors! Also, noticing my hits and views took a NOSEDIVE after I updated my robots.txt. And may I say... fuck yeah. Big numbers be damned, I want human numbers.
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chilblands's avatar chilblands 2 days ago

this is why i hide my metrics haha those numbers mean nothing to me u-u) annoying bots! they only emit more carbon... nothing good from crawlers! shoo

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lydels's avatar lydels 2 days ago

ooooh your robots file is way longer than mine mind if i steal that

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diremptiness's avatar diremptiness 2 days ago

@lydels of course, I can't claim it's mine. I stole it from someone else lol

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dru1dsden's avatar dru1dsden 1 day ago

I also removed the ability for robots and AI agents to trawl and scrape my site :D

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simplescott's avatar simplescott 1 day ago

Amazing. Thank you for the robot blocker. Tempting to also put some less than polite text in there too

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So. I don't know WHY the button is doing that, but I have figured out a fix. Add "top: -10px" to the main div and that should line my button up.
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diremptiness's avatar diremptiness 2 days ago

On a completely unrelated note though, I do see that you have two divs that have the id of neighborhood (one element per ID!) and a /div tag after the buttons and before resources that shouldn't be there.

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