omg I wasted so much of my day reblogging and leaving comments and sending them emails. I'm so tired lol

thank god, actual worst update ever

i do not entirely trust it tbh, the "we'll work on it and get back to you" phrasing doesnt fill me with confidence. but im glad the walked it back for now at least!

oh yeah i have zero trust in them anyway so im squint side-eyeing them but im genuinely surprised they rolled it back LMFAO i was so sure theyd cover their ears and dig their heels in

Honestly I can see them rolling it back if not from the pushback but from how many things it broke! And with enough people threatening to leave and putting a dent into what money they were earning off of them...yeah. "At least" their tone is clear that they will continue down this path again, just differently

one could say it’s tumbling downward

decade long ass tumble LOOOOOL fr though

how long before xkit rewritten somehow manages to fix this too-

no even april (xkit's maker) literally posted like 'sorry not even xkit can fix this' LOL

wha... why the hell would they do that

oof...let's hope they end up backpedaling on this then with the amount of backlash they seem to be getting

:skull: i have low hopes of them backpedalling ... would be an actual miracle if somehow it does work but im not holding my breath. seriously, what a useless update tho, i dont see the point of it

YEAH... i'm so tired of this. hoping the backlash makes them rethink it but i will 100% be using this to plug neocities as an alternative jic i lose ANOTHER FUCKING PLATORM :')

They have addressed the strong reaction from people, so I hope they'll at the very least make it an optional thing the OP of each post can choose to use or not. Better send them feedback through. The more feedback, the more likely they will listen.

thank you!!!! ur site is soo clean and your OC's design is so cool!!

it basically ‘builds’ your site for you, and it easier to reuse chunks/templates without having to rewrite entire code portions or using javascript to do it (like my site rn uses javascript to spit out my header/sidebar/footer, 11ty does it for you instead)

it definitely is a bit of a learning curve right now even for me, but it also makes it easier to make pages; i could write a page is just markdown, add a couple doodads like telling 11ty ‘hey can you use my normal site template?’ and it’ll just build and spit the site out with all the proper HTML + your markdown into proper HTML text

wow i should not write when half asleep bahaha. petrapixel has a pretty thorough tutorial on it, but it’s definitely a learning curve rn to kinda understand what i can do, can’t, and how the fuck some other stuff works. it’s why i avoided 11ty until now since im wanting to redo my layout/gut my site from 0

Ooh, okay, sounds cool! Probably too fancy for me atm but I'm eager to hear how it works for you :D

sorry yall on my weird rambling journey rn LMAO, it makes it easier to offload thoughts here since it IS website specific

I made like seven blog posts the weekend I did mine so I think you're good

i used a huge-ass json file for my characters, but as the count grew theres a huge maintenance overhead and generally doing that decreases flexibility. so i dont super recommend it? (i ended up writing a whole ass custom program for me to edit the json)

but gallery with json is super nice, you can filter & include images and put them anywhere (one gallery.json and one gallery.liquid (or .njk) and you call the include file with any part of the gallery you wish!) ive a blog post on this iirc

also do check out 11ty-image plugin, it can auto-resize

sighs debating if i should put lil 'sections' around chunks like i have it on my site now, or leave it bare bones ... (though it makes it a little harder to differentiate sections)

sighs i’m still very torn. this layout makes it harder to have all my lil dinkies and pixels and lil fun sidebar of stuff … grr i’ll continue pondering. maybe i should try to 11ty my current layout as well for funsies. yada yada head full it’s 3am

nvm i’ve figured out how to get the lil mini sidebar… damn it’s that fuckin easy to just have a ‘if this variable is true then include this’ in a template????? it does shrink my main content down a bit for the index but eh, my current layout already does that…