tabf5
3 months ago
The button wall is from the one and only dabric, they're marked as "Dead" here: https://dabric.xyz/links/
shittymeat999
3 months ago
the worst thing is when someone completely erases their site!!! makes me sad!!
ninacti0n
3 months ago
Literally me with a few favorite artists who left Neocities and vanished without explanation :'] I wish there was a way to keep on following them out there...
brachypelmide
3 months ago
well that's funny cause on my site rewrite i'm gonna have a graveyard section for buttons LOL. rest in peace theprophat
samsolarsystem
3 months ago
It makes me so sad when they delete the whole site, just because they aren't updating anymore doesn't mean they should let all their hard work disapear like that >:(
dabric
3 months ago
oh wow that's me, I've actually been wondering if keeping dead sites would be appropriate... it was their choice to take it down, and i kinda wanna respect that. let them live in peace, going into the next chapter of their life
nexos-den
3 months ago
that's why projects like the wayback machine are awesome. We should archive shit
benny1548132
3 months ago
idk, i think it's worse when someone's site is still up but the way they left things makes me think they died
tabf5
3 months ago
Oh boy 5 AM!!! Time for a photo update along with a BIG bump in sticker count AND a couple little additions too. Getting ready to put all my shit in boxes but I'm gonna try to carve two final Tablings before my big move. Also onio's YouTube video is doing so well that Neocities might be going viral as we speak, idk we will see........
tabf5
3 months ago
Also the Free Stickers are now on hold until March 20th, which is when I should be done moving. We got a ton of new US states on the map before I packed up my mailing stuff though!
kockatriceking
3 months ago
y'know if youre getting real into woodcarving a dremel goes a long way. its not as fun as the knife, but its great for adding finer details and sanding, especially hardwoods
kockatriceking
3 months ago
also, good luck with your move! always a hassle... but worth it at the end
tabf5
3 months ago
I do have a Dremel actually! I just don't usually have a great place to use it outside so I don't fill my apartment with sawdust since I'm currently somewhere pretty busy. Should be easier to find a place to use it where I'm headed though, and thank you!!
underwhite
3 months ago
oh my gosh! hair!!! offtopic but go search up what hair is in spanish if you want
benny1548132
3 months ago
oh my god, the fact that you did this -- not the hair alone, the whole page, you made creatures of real people -- is incredible. the tablings are adorable, and they have so much personality!
tabf5
3 months ago
In this case, SrPelo! Wow https://bsky.app/profile/srpelo.bsky.social/post/3mfdl2p5tl22y
benny1548132
3 months ago
i predict an uptick in people using pre-made layouts with almost no changes other than color. maybe they'll leave after they discover websites aren't inconvenient, but we might, for a short time, be overwhelmed with people expecting convenience. i shudder at the thought
benny1548132
3 months ago
i also feel like this is bad for a reason that is harder to articulate and maybe makes me sound like a pretentious dick....Neocities and other site hosts are already really easy to find, actually, if you know what you're looking for. people who wanted to find it, would. now, though, it's more visible people who didn't know or care what they were missing, it's like giving Myspace to someone used to Tiktok or Instagram
garfriend
3 months ago
I think I have some faith in people. Tbf I almost did the whole template route and almost gave up on coding a few times. The only reason I kept going is because I was procrastinating from doing my illustration stuff…
lydels
3 months ago
i mean no matter how or why people arrive here, more people choosing the indie web instead of the big social medias is a good thing. but i dont know if neocities growing bigger is a good thing in itself? i think we're gonna need to remind ourselves to not focus too much on numbers or followers and remember why we started our sites in the 1st place before we end up w the same behavior we're trying to escape from here
phunk
3 months ago
shift in the zeitgeist. its gonna be a shock at first. a good thing for the zeitgeist overall. anything away from hyper consumption can only be good. but not really good for the niche. gym in January. not an issue for me i find sites from of sites i already like.
benny1548132
3 months ago
you guys are right. no matter where people are coming from, if they make something good, that's what matters. i just don't have faith in people, not even myself. those kinds of numbers can be addicting
benny1548132
3 months ago
good is subjective. i guess i just mean that i want things to come from the heart
drinkmoretea
3 months ago
I mean, from what I know, Onio (onio.club) did make a youtube video about the indie web but they've been on here for 3 years now. I definitely got an uptick on my stats + guestbook from his video but people have been really nice! TBH I don't think people will learn how to code en masse from this
pocketdollhouse
3 months ago
I think it could be a good thing, but at the same time I'm afraid of the number of empty sites we'll get from ppl who will only join to follow their favorite creators, which is not the end of the world by itself but oof x__X
tabf5
3 months ago
Yeah on second thought it's dawning on me how much of an impact this might make, good or bad. God I hope it's just a boom-and-bust and then everything stays the same
underwhite
3 months ago
also quick reminder temmie is on neocities already so this place gonna GROW I'm scared
jaryq
3 months ago
It is good, I think. There would be more beautiful websites, but i totally agree with pocketdollhouse :)
brachypelmide
3 months ago
"Can I Finish My Site Rewrite Before Neocities' Population Implodes And Kills The Servers?"
underwhite
3 months ago
I need to finish my songs NOW! and, for these news and y'alls predictions, I'm now scared and happy, I still want this to be small but a little big, I don't want any negative stuff 🥹
sneekrealm
3 months ago
not for nothin the 1gb limit on free accounts (of which i use under 1% pfff [not counting the mp3s/mp4s i host off filegarden]) - as for it all i'll just neutrally observe over time really
kockatriceking
3 months ago
it'll peak hard then plateau after a while ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i agree with brach, hoping moreso the existing infrastructure can handle any peak in traffic then changes in site culture and so on. this isnt really a "social media" like most others are and that can be initally offputting to many. still, it's worth downloading your sites/mounting them on a drive as a backup just in case
brachypelmide
3 months ago
wait people dont have their sites on their drive and just rawdog it on neocities?? ? i admire the courage
underwhite
3 months ago
@brachypelmide I just wing it half the time on onecomplier’s html previewer and pray lol
benny1548132
3 months ago
@brachy @underwhite i wing it in the site editor (i actually use Nekoweb) for that fresh, improvised, desperate vibe, but then once i'm proud of the changes i've made, i'll save a copy to my drive. save your important shit, please, if you haven't already
dequake
3 months ago
Way I see it, it's the same as anything that gets really popular. It's a big craze, everyone wants in. After a while, most will give up. This is not strange. There will be a few that remain, whose interests are truly peaked. Those are the ones that become the next generation. Its the same with art, music, anything really. There's that one in a hundred, always been like that.
underwhite
3 months ago
@dequake i hope it gets the same craze as labubu, pretty sure that's the case
underwhite
23 hours ago
been thinking about this, but when will srpelo make his website? besides that, there are more videos on neocities now, and it’s been like… 3 months and nothing happened yet. i think we overreacted a lil
if you streamed, you'd defo leak your stream key on live
I rarely open Facebook, but every single time I do, I almost type my search into the post bar. happens to the best of us...
DID YOU HAVE 2 FACTOR AUTHENTICATION ENABLED‽‽
Just send me all your passwords... and credit card numbers... and whatever else. I will keep it safe!
new fear unlocked, along with talking shit about someone in the wrong group chat
@scary-grandma I SEE YOU WITH THAT INTERROBANG
12345, oh no I just did it too
man, is my headspace synced with the neocities noosphere or something. today i had a dream i sent some shit in the wrong chat that had like 200+ people in it and i tried to shrug it off like "heh yah i was supposed to do that". awkward silence ensued.
imagine bros password is actually12345