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Welcome! I'm Kuneho Cottonears.
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Hey, is there a way to tell Neocities to sort of "reset everything" every time I upload my website? Old pages I don't link anymore still appear unless I manually delete them.
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Hey. I can't help but think about maybe considering moving to a self-hosted VPS. I know users like Owlroost as done this already, but would you guys do something like this too?
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owlroost
6 months ago
Technically I'm not on a VPS or self-hosting. That's a lot more work security and maintenance-wise. I'm on a paid webhost instead that does a good job of setting up the necessary services for me (web server, firewall, etc.) that also gives me a bit of control over the behavior of Apache for my site.
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owlroost
6 months ago
Plus you pay for what you use on my host, which is nice. Cheaper than Neocities supporter for more features if you've got one site (if you make a ton of sites, you may want a host that doesn't charge for resources per site). I'm on NearlyFreeSpeech, for reference.
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Hey, do any of you guys try to make your website work without JavaScript enabled?
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owlroost
6 months ago
As much as possible, yes. The alt color schemes are the only thing that needs it, and I have light/dark CSS to fall back on the user's device preference if JS is disabled. Any pages that need a color scheme can be reached with the URL/sitemap alone as well, and any JS-formatted bits will still show something without JS.
That "Hello World" project you did is badass! Though, it is a bit robotic. I can tell where the keyframes start and end, it's not 100% smooth.
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Bros, have any of you guys used a tool called SASS to write your CSS? I just used it to tidy up the CSS of my index page and I'm already impressed. So many duplicated lines and code begone!
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Hey, how do you guys format dates on your websites? In the code, I use ISO 8601, but when a date is dipslayed, it uses DMY as it's the most common format from what I can tell. Should I change this everywhere so it's consistent? What date formats would you use?
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Hey, you know how Neocities has limited file types, and only allows you to upload any file if you are a supporter? Does anyone know what happens if you uploaded a "blacklisted" file, but then stopped paying one day?
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numbersstory
7 months ago
pretty sure it just stays on your account, you just can't upload new blacklisted files
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Hey. I'm just wondering and (over)thinking again. Do/Would you guys publicly host the source code of your website in a repository somewhere like GitHub or sr.ht? Why or why not? I personally I don't want to do it right now because of all the borrowed images I used, and the code I wrote needs to be cleaned up, but I have a feeling it could benefit somebody, somewhere if I fixed both of those issues.
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k-cottonears
8 months ago
"Share stuff you create for the good of others. Open source your designs and code. Try to use the web for making other people's lives better. You have the power to reach millions of people - use it!" - Abigail Pain, https://www.akpain.net/blog/the-modern-web-sucks/.
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Hey. If you guys were applying for a job, would you use your website as a portfolio? I want to try and disassociate "k-cottonears" from my future professional portfolio, but I want to be involved in multiple creative projects, and I realize doing this is going to be difficult and a shoot in the foot. But, I also want to make content that may be M-rated, and I feel like is a different bullet. I'm unsure what to do.
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k-cottonears
8 months ago
I wanted to originally have a separate portfolio website on sr.ht sites, to have things more abstracted, but its still probably going to be linkable back to me. Alternatively, I was thinking of having separate identities for these two sites, which again, may limit what I can show to potential employers.
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owlroost
8 months ago
I personally wouldn't because some of what's on my site isn't something I'd want an employer to see at all, but that's me. I'll be making a separate professional portfolio under a different name if I ever need one, personally. You could also try hiding the content on the current site, but that depends on whether you expect something like curl or wget to be used to get the source for the site.
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Hey, pink! I noticed an issue using your website. Since you use an iframe instead of individual pages, this means users may encounter pages I'm pretty sure they aren't supposed to (see replies), and the users who want to link to a certain page may not be able to do so, as everything is under /home.
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k-cottonears
8 months ago
This is what happens if I middle click on a CD: https://dustedpink.neocities.org/cdshelf
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dustedpink
8 months ago
Hey Kuneho, the issue here is that using iframes is the only way to get the page to change the content while keeping the layout the same. I understand this can be done with php but I've heard that's not possible on Neocities. I noticed this issue with middle click so I placed a script which is supposed to disable middle click in that menu element - your browser may not be reading that script.
softteddypaws
6 months ago
how to fix ur iframe links :3 https://forum.melonland.net/index.php?topic=115.0
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All I can think is telling the CLI to use the delete option on everything (./*), though I don't know if that would work recursively. And then uploading it all again. Not the best, but might work.
Doesn't work unfortunately. It sucks that there's no tool on Neocities that allows you to make automated cleanups. :-/