Haven't blogged in a while lol, planning on posting more blogs soon. Yesterday I watched Dr Stone, really cool anime.
Omg?? How weirdly flattering tbh lol. They seem pretty polite, maybe you could just say something like you'd prefer not linking to sponsored content/shopping/product related websites. Also seeing a neocities link in such a corporate-y email is weirdly funny to me
This is exactly how I update my site! Local copy gang rise up. I try to use the 'last page big thumbnail' trick whenever I update my darker pages so that isn't the first thing people see. I've also been trying to to keep my images optimized, but I didn't start doing that until recently, so my site is still huge lol ...
Also, 'secret' tip (?): I always upload my images before I upload the HTML files. Images upload to Neocities just fine the first time, but if you replace the same filename with a different image, it can take quite a while to update. HTML changes are almost instant but images take a lot longer.
Oh yeah I upload images first basically always. I've never had issues with images with the same filename getting updated yet? If you want the thumbnail to update, just add a random space in the HTML and it'll change quickly.
I have a local copy running on localhost, so I can easily preview all the changes and accumulate them to push them all at once later. For editing, I use VSCode, and my uploading option is the CLI. I upload the entire website by running "neocitiess push .", which takes a bit of time for my website (but only the files that have some changes are uploaded), but it's completely hassle-free.
As for the thumbnails, I resize them manually for single images (e.g. blog posts), but for my photo galleries I have made a simple python script that grabs all the images in the temporary folder, makes thumbnails, uploads everyting to catbox.moe and generates the HTML. All I have to do is drop the photos and wait for my code to be ready, then just paste it into the base page template.
https://shadowm00n.neocities.org/tech/neocities_management_script.html <-- i use this script makes it nice n ez lol
https://thricegreat.neocities.org/neocities_in_rc_shell.txt I use this script which I made.