Neocities.org

Basically looks like a hobbyist website in which the truth was trying to make it a radical political movement instead. They got mad that people didn't get it because the people were "Hobbyist website go brrrr" and finally ended up being blunt about it. Which caused things to finally shut down. To this day at various places, Yesterweb ended up being a laughing stock cause of it.

I joined Yesterweb's webring some time ago because at the time it advertised itself as a hobbyspace for passionate personal site creators, and I thought that was a really cool concept! At some point, I left the Discord after a while because it was indeed getting obnoxiously political and it was difficult to even ask innocuous questions about coding without eggshells getting broken.

If there were different people at the helm, or if they kept the entire project as politically neutral as they could, I'm sure Yesterweb would still be thriving. We can take Yesterweb's story as yet another cautionary tale of what happens when personal interests are prioritized over the original vision of a thriving project.

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