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PSA: don't host your images on discord, apparently they are going to change urls to prevent hotlinking, but even if that doesn't turn out to be true just host your images on site anyway. if you don't rely on image hosts you don't have to worry about all your image links breaking!
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I know this is not something people WANT to think about, but I'd highly recommend looking into other sites hosts for if/when neocities ever shuts down. neocities is far from your only option! there are many places you can host your site for FREE and still maintain a presence on neocities but not being dependent on it!
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jasm1nii
1 year ago
sweet! time to link to my soundcloud https://jasm1nii.xyz/resources/webdev/site-hosts
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pencilvoid
1 year ago
the plan has always been go to self-hosted once i find the resources to host a server 24/7 with consistent uptime. PHP seems "fun"
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pencilvoid
1 year ago
this is actually something i've been thinking about a lot recently. it would be nice to host my website + the git repo myself so i don't have to worry about hosts shutting down or corporations yanking them away once they stop being profitable. i would host a minecraft server also
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owlroost
1 year ago
@pencilvoid Just make sure your ISP is on board! Some of them hate this sort of thing (ugh).
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whiona
1 year ago
I’ve heard Nearly Free Speech is also a good service. I’m happy on Neocities for now but it’s very important to not be married to your web host. And ALWAYS have a local backup of your site!!!
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owlroost
1 year ago
@whiona I host my own site on NFS- they've been fantastic, but you definitely need to be comfortable with SSH / remote file management, as there's not a graphical interface for site file management. It's very DIY and I like that about it, but it might pose a problem for others.
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https://pinkvampyr.leprd.space/pages/guestbook new guestbook! haven't styled it yet but i imported most of the comments from 123guestbook already :>
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pinkvampyr
1 year ago
you have to admit trans people are cool to comment so if you comment something transphobic its automatically cancelled out bc you had to say trans people were cool first <3
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sorry about my blogs light mode btw it's. not ideal for viewing right now.
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so after reading over that article again it seems chrome's reader mode is beyond subpar on top of being hard to enable :^/ If you need to see reader mode either to actually use or just to test it out I'd recommend using Firefox, even just as a backup.
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i enjoyed your blog post about accessibility and the old web revival movement. it's a very important issue and it's nice to see people talking about it
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as things stand right now there won't be an accessnet discord server, I don't have the time or energy to moderate one and frankly I've seen one too many cool projects go downhill because of strife in discord communities. it's just not something I'm interested in ^^;
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owlroost
1 year ago
That's more than fair! I've been a server admin before and it really is a massive undertaking that goes wrong quickly.
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your display controls are so cool!! is it ok to ask how you made it?
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pencilvoid
1 year ago
thank you! it's a combination of Javascript and static site generator tricks. you can check out the source code here: https://github.com/PencilVoid/neocities-pencilvoid
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added a new link under the "articles, essays, and blog posts" section of the resources page. “On mobile phones, the small web, and able-bodied privilege” by whiona here on neocities. says a lot of the things i've been wanting to say from the perspective of someone actually affected by it. go give it a read!
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Plus hotlinking is slow.
Leads to images loading more slowly *