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The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇
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I'm on something of a poasting blitz but I'll say one last thing — one important thing i've learnt is that Neocities is much more tolerable if you just never look at the global activity page. No weirdos, no depressing blogs, no fansites for animes you've never heard of, no (rare, but there) actual literal neonazis — it’s generally just a much nicer experience when you stay in your own little circle.
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Recently saw another site (I believe they follow me — if the webmaster is reading this, hi 🙂) describe me as one of the “earliest sites in the small web movement”, or something of the sort, and honestly it was quite strange — i don’t really think of myself as being… part of any kind of movement? I’m just making a personal website because it’s fun and i have the resources to do it, same as anyone else way back when.
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satyrwoud
1 year ago
I don’t really partake in the broader “community” of people who are very much About Making Personal Sites: i’m not on any Discords or Mastoda or Pleromæ or Blorbochats or what have you, i don’t have a guestbook, i’ve tried to be restrained with the more Geocitiesque elements, i try to steer clear of meta-commentary about The State Of Ye Web and technology… it doesn’t feel right being lumped in with them. 🤔
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pencilvoid
1 year ago
i think at this point people assume any webmaster on neocities has some affiliation with the yesterweb movement and things like that, probably because the yesterweb sentiment is the reason neocities exists
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Just realised my site turned five years old earlier this year and i didn’t even notice! Lovely milestone.
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The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇 was updated.
1 year ago
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satyrwoud
1 year ago
Note to self — really must figure out how to synchronise comments between Wordpress and my home-baked PHP spaghetti before Lords of Misrule comes around again.
Turning to the dark side (using machine translation to fill out the Dutch part of my site)
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I Killed Seven People In A Hit-And-Run. Here's Why That's A Good Thing.
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The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇 was updated.
1 year ago
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satyrwoud
1 year ago
Revamped the menu on the front page to look cooler™. (Incidentally, if you see any changes from “Marijn” to “Xanthe” on the site, it’s not a trans thing or anything — just trying to anonymise a bit and build up a fictional persona for myself. :-) )
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“There She Goes” is *such* an addictive song.
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pikemalarkey
1 year ago
I used to listen to it a lot in my teen years but heard it again recently and felt kind of indifferent : /
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I like Obsidian, you're meant to have all these weird complicated backlinks between tiny little documents but I just use it like a souped-up notepad
Obsidian is cool, I want to make a digital zettelkasten with it at some point
Man, would like to thank you for following me, your site is one of the most well designed I've ever seen, hugs
holocene ideas?
Ahhh — I used to have a page on my site of a history of the world in the Holocene era calendar (the current year plus 10,000, basically), trying to put the scale of human history in perspective. I scrapped it because, well, i am just one person, with my own biases and knowledge-gaps, and i couldn't realistically expect myself to ever cover every major event
That sounds like something I could try. I've collected a bunch of history notes since I learned about the holocene calendar years ago. - Also, I found that page by guessing the url.
The interesting thing would be seeing how ancient dates change, modern ones are pretty obvious.
I actually used to use it across the site, before i realised that i just didn’t talk about ancient dates enough for it to be worth the alienation — and even for those ancient dates, it rendered them unrecognisable to the lay reader.