TIL people made club penguin clones 🤯

i like it - simple and clean (and responsive)!

I love the simplicity, but on your manifesto page is the title supposed to be "Downgrade to Web 1.0"? Also, you should post some info on the books you have under your library under the Library thread. Curious about your 2015 and 2019 reads from your point of view.

I remember when I was first getting into web-design (early/mid 90s) and my only goal was to make my page load fast on a 24400 modem. The software I used at the time I cant recall but it had a nice page weight function to tell you how large it was and about how long it would take to load at various speeds. Tools like CoffeeCup, MS Front Page, Paint Shop Pro (slicing!), Macromedia Dreamweaver all played their parts now and then. But getting a full set of pages under 100kb was great. Kind of miss those days (but not marquees or midi's playing automatically).

Netscape Gold! Had an in built website builder - spent way too much time on that thing.

Also miss the era of Flash, a great idea executed poorly. Build your interactive elements using vectors to keep the size small but you can deploy it by just linking to a single file. But the idea behind Flash was so forward thinking. It was to give power to people to build websites the way they wanted. Doing even a 10th of that stuff now requires a lot of technical knowledge that Flash could handle in the background. I guess the move to HTML5 was a trade off of openness over ease of use.

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Came across this recent book (by Kevin Kelly) that seems to be in a similar vein to your site: Excellent Advice for Living. I'm not linking to Amazon though, because it's a pretty easy digital find online.

I'm not shilling it or anything. Just more wanted to share that: "Hey! This kinda thing could be made into a book."

He had a preamble to the book on his website as well: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known

Make of it what you will.

Thanks for this, I always appreciate these kind of things. Part of the inspiration for this style comes from seeing various quotes on line from all manner of famous writers etc. There have been many times when a single sentence has brought more clarity to an idea than a book on the same subject.

On the flip side there are times when it is wise to go in deep on ideas and concepts, you cannot distill everything down to the bare bones. I have been doing a lot of long form writing on AI and technology recently because to summarize them down would miss huge parts of it and in cases like that filling in the blanks can lead to wildly different interpretations.

Hi all

I'm a software engineer from Belgium. Just started a non-profit software development community.

Hope you people could take a peek at some of my content: https://blog.benjaminvr.net https://construct0.com

Cheers! ~ Benjamin @ construct0

Dude, don't denigrate your own work by calling it "content". Have a little self-respect; it's good for you.

Website name:

Daryl Sun's Journal (I'm not good at naming things)

What’s your website about?

It's my weekly blog where I post about things I've learned and done during the past days. There are also some fun pages.

How long have you been working on your website?

I started working on this website since May 2023, so it's been a few months!

What’s your newest webpage?

/notes, which is my attempt at a digital garden/commonplace book/personal wiki.

What’s your favorite part of your website?

It's a tie between /cliques, which features my beginner pixel art, and /adoptables, which showcases some of the virtual pets I've collected so far.

If people could only view one part of your site, which part would it be?

/uses, because people will probably find it useful.

Thank you for the positive words. Some new articles were written.

Looking for other avenues to get the word out to tech savvy people.

Ycombinator didn't seem to interested so far, any tips? :-)

Have a great weekend.

Really like the composition of the site, information dense and appealing.

Personally not a fan of the orange/red blocks surrounding the links on-hover, but thats just a detail and personal preference.

Happy coding

Thanks for the feedback! I'm in the middle of overhauling my blog's appearance, so hopefully I'll get around to tweaking that.

Website name:

hause, what is german for home.

What’s your website about?

Well, i first planned it to be a blog, then a game review website, but i've decided to make it a useful link directory.

How long have you been working on your website?

A few months.

What’s your newest webpage?

I have reuploaded the index page. Does that count?

What’s your favourite part of your website?

The index, and https://hause.neocities.org/stickslavery!

If people could only view one part of your site, which part would it be?

Hmmm, the index, because it has the most use of all pages.

Every so often I get the urge to share sites like "motherfuckingwebsite.com" and its successors with coworkers, but I refrain because the language is NSFW.

So I created my own #manifesto #website called This Is An Actual Website, but less Oedipal and without profanity.

Feedback is welcome.

I run getimiskon.xyz, which is my personal website and the place I host a bunch of services for myself and a few friends. Some of the services are an IRC server, a Mumble server for voice chats, a Fediverse instance and a radio stream. I have been working on it since 2018 and it has changed a lot over the years.

I try to update it as much as I can, but I'm not that good at writing. Usually the page that's most often updated is the one I made for the Lainchan Webring. I have been updating it continuously since 2020. Other than that, the latest page is usually the last post I wrote.

divsel.com is a newly created blog. It's more of a content-first thing, where the point is the content, not like HEAR SI MMY HOEMPAGE SPARKLE COLLECTIUIN

divchan divchan is basically an anonymous image board where you can optionally log in and post. It's mostly just an elaborate comment system for my blog that no one uses but its open source and pretty neat -- would be cool if people did. <https://github.com/divSelector/divchan>

divsel.neocities.org - obviously the sparkle page is here

neorings.org - i run a dedicated platform for hosting and joining webrings

"Digital Cheese's Website", might rename it to "Digital Cheese's Homebase" or something like that.

While currently under a major redesign, and intended to be self-hosted rather than on GitHub soon, at least as I am writing this, it is mostly a small blog and a place for me to keep archives of files which I created. I try to share files via my own system because it is way easier and more useful to do it that way, larger files and sometimes faster speeds basically. If I really wanted to, I could send frens private-torrents with GPG encrypted data, then seed it until they have it.

Since December 30th, 2021. It was originally on neocities, I got a domain in September or October 2023, and now it is on GitHub but will soon be on my own webserver.

Funnily enough, just the homepage as of now, but once it is self-hosted, it will be a new status post, along with archives of old statuses + other stuff I wanted to put back up for a while.

For now, just the fact it is my own website. Whenever I can get everything properly running, it will be the fact that it is my own website AND probably the most plentiful personal-website of the bunch, no more 30 dead websites without any contact method either like many of the Neocities ones.

Also the homepage, funnily enough. In its current state, it is perfect and functioning. I can also just add everything I need to the homepage if necessary, and design the images to be lightweight if necessary (black and white images most of the time, with the occasional color image, pixelate it in a way to not really reduce quality, but save a ton of pixel space, turn that pixel-space transparent, make the background in a way that it looks cool).

welcome to the site @DigitalCheese! what kinda machine you plan on self-hosting on? Something like a rasberry pi or an old family computer??

I have an old laptop sitting around and that is probably what I will end up using. However, I do have a few hundred USD and there's more than one laptop sitting around, so I could potentially use the parts from those and/or sell said laptops (which might get to nearly $1000 USD), and begin to build a proper PC for a webserver. Nothing too major, mostly the storage will cost me if I needed more than a smaller amount, which I suspect will become the case. For now, with no reasonable way to say whether I should go for that or not, I am planning on just using one of the older laptops to host everything. I have like 8GB of ram on the laptop planned to be used, and good enough internet that it should be fine as long as I properly firewall everything. May consider getting a static IPv4+IPv6 10-gigabit router, then going from there too. I will have to do the math and figure it out, since I don't have a job and probably won't for a little while, meaning I will just work with what I have.

Although I actually have a ton planned, and on a few websites too. Since I have multiple websites to host, this also makes it a bit harder otherwise it would probably be up already. I know well a small personal website will work, likely several, but adding IRC, XMPP, Mumble, game-servers (mostly Half-Life), and more into the mix will make it take a bit longer. I refuse a VPS though, and will use the simplest possible software. I want basically complete control over everything, and the static-IP is to make it so that way I don't have to occasionally edit DNS settings if my power goes out, which is occasional down here. Also, if something ever happened to the domains, people wouldn't need TOR or I2P in order to access the websites, nor anything like OpenNIC or Hyphanet, which is pretty nice. Enough port-forwarding I've noticed can eliminate the need for 30 million IPs and sub-domains entirely, so, might as well take it as far as possible. I am basically trying to lean as far into the old-web stuff as possible, while keeping the convenience of newer stuff. So basically no-tracking, no-advertisements or only advertisements by actual members which are non-intrusive, but also, simple to use for normals and very useful for tech-wizards.