Neocities

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Not The Fucking CIA said:
Yeah, you guys are pretty much right: the platform doesn't really have much of a social aspect to it, besides commenting on site profiles, which in my search I really haven't seen much use of.

Another thing: there seems to be tons and tons of these sites with nothing more than an about page. "My kins/IDs/fursonas/whatever" and "Don't follow if you say faggot". What's the point of having the damn site if that's all you're going to use it for?
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If this were the actual age of Geocities, then you would have seen more stuff on their sites like writings, art, etc. But now that we have social media and art-hosting sites for all that, there's no need to make your own website and put it up there. So I want to say a lot of these sites were made by people who saw all the memes about Geocities and decided to make a site of their own, only to get bored partway through, realize why a lot of us stopped doing this whole personal-website thing, and leave it in the state it's in.

There are some good uses of the service, though, like Lainzine and the Javascript coders who have all their little games and graphical effects up in one place for people to see. Plus we used to have that Resetera ban list up there, and I'm surprised a Neocities mod hasn't gotten pissy and removed the old instance of it.
 
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That genderdruid website is making fun of genderqueers, gamers and occultists in one glorious meme :heart-full: I wish I was of celtic heritage so I could suck the author's dick without wrongly appropriating his druidic heritage.



Never heard of Portal of Evil before. Can someone give an overview? Probably an early phpBB website?
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It was a proto lolcow site in Web 1.0. It highlighted and catalogued weird, obscure, interesting, and disgusting websites and personalities. You could find anything from crush porn to Ulillillia on it. Although Uli wasn't generally mocked like most of the site and people featured. It had a pretty active forums and spin off sites like PoENews and PoEtv. It was started by Chet and Erik of Old Man Murray fame who would later go on to work for Valve and notably wrote for Portal. We didn't archive like KF, mostly just made fun of the people we found. It did have the Prime Directive which was not to interact offsite with the people who were featured. Plenty of lolcows, especially furries, would get asshurt and come to the forums to defend themselves and flamewars abound.

Cue All in the Family theme music.
 
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Not The Fucking CIA said:
Another thing: there seems to be tons and tons of these sites with nothing more than an about page. "My kins/IDs/fursonas/whatever" and "Don't follow if you say faggot". What's the point of having the damn site if that's all you're going to use it for?
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That's what a lot of modern "personal websites" are, they're links to a bunch of shitty social media profiles. Even outside NeoCities you'll see pages that are bloated CSS and JavaScript slapped onto a website that solely serves as a list of social media pages. Speaking of that:
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If this were the actual age of Geocities, then you would have seen more stuff on their sites like writings, art, etc. But now that we have social media and art-hosting sites for all that, there's no need to make your own website and put it up there. So I want to say a lot of these sites were made by people who saw all the memes about Geocities and decided to make a site of their own, only to get bored partway through, realize why a lot of us stopped doing this whole personal-website thing, and leave it in the state it's in.

There are some good uses of the service, though, like Lainzine and the Javascript coders who have all their little games and graphical effects up in one place for people to see. Plus we used to have that Resetera ban list up there, and I'm surprised a Neocities mod hasn't gotten pissy and removed the old instance of it.
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A lot of it is because it's somewhat of a fad. Tying into how you said that there are a lot of "compsci + myspace aesthetic + old internet/games/anime" trannies on the internet, a lot of them dig the 90s internet aesthetic because it gives them feelings of nostalgia, combined with the fact that they tend to brag about how their internet addictions made them trannies. Case in point, there are games like Secret Little Haven or anthrotari which are visual novels which nail that well. There's a faux 90s aesthetic mixed in with the idea of being a "repressed queer tranny" who finds out their "true identity" via their internet obsession. Adding to how trannies likely have that obsession is the whole vaporwave scene and resurgence in nostalgia for Windows 95 and Mac OS Classic fueled by YouTube channels like LGR which has led to some resurgence of interest in old PC hardware and games.

I've also seen trannies interested in retro computing, retrogaming, and similar hobbies for that same nostalgia reason. What's hilarious is when you see trannies who hate capitalism getting interested in computers that cost as much as a house or luxury car did, especially since they tend to flex them without doing anything interesting with them.
 
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The genderdruid easily the best thing I’ve read all day. The Druid info was also fairly correct on top of it. 10/10. Are sites typically designed like A.N. Lucas did or are there more with a more standard design like our Druid as well?
 
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Are sites typically designed like A.N. Lucas did or are there more with a more standard design like our Druid as well?
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It's all up to the site maintainer, since Neocities is just plain handwritten HTML (or I guess a framework if you really want to, but no backend stuff). Most of Neocities is little kids who wanna have "retro" sites with bad backgrounds and GIFs and they just copy each other. Vaporwave has a huge presence from what I've seen.

The problem with Neocities is that, because the community is actually pretty lazy and boring on-site (seriously, none of the top five users are even active on it anymore), most of the salt and infighting comes from the Discord servers, and there's a couple of them now. Even then, they're mostly quiet and only good for finding personal cows. I debated making a Community Watch thread for it ages ago, but it's such a damp squib that it's not even worth it really.
 
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oh hey this site looks...
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oh no.

also, I made this in case you want to use it:

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FYI, it's not all doom and gloom for Neocities. Some good things have come from it.

Spyware Watchdog is one that was created by a bunch of anons on 8ch's /tech/ board before it got blown up and rebranded as 8kun. It's a list that documents what programs (mainly browsers) are tapping into your system and it breaks down the specific things regarding information they do (or don't in rare cases) take.

Dig Deeper is a site that is privacy focused, talking about many different topics, from bowsers and their add-ons, to search engines and linux related software. It also has additional shit like video game discussion, image board comparisons, and a few articles about capitalism if you're into that sort of thing.

I always recommend both of these as good reads if you're looking for more sources and opinions on different stuff relating to technology as a whole.
 
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A lot of these people probably frequented VidLii/BitView/Vlare when that circle was still relevant, I remember when VidLii was still active so many to-be troons born in 2001-2004 obsessed with Windows XP, 2006-2012 memes, old Web Dev, Anime and Nintendo/Sega were there (who are everywhere on Twitter and Discord now, I mentioned it in a previous post, a lot of the people in question are on GBATemp too) and very clearly made little effort to go past the "haha funny old meme" thing.

Honestly blame these fuckers for The Great Reddit Price Gauging of 2016+.
 
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>find site called https://yesterweb.org
>looks pretty neat
>try and join the discord
>it's one of those discords that has roles for pronouns, even including neopronouns
>notsuprised.gif
>try and join anyway and get help with my own site
>talk with some other people there
>post mildest memes imaginable
>say i'm right-leaning, and express some milktoast opinions on gender politics with extreme trepidation
>suprisingly, they don't hate me
>nextmorning.gif
>check phone
>banned.gay
>wtf
>try log in with alt account
>alsobanned.fag
>how the fuck did they know

It's honestly not a suprise that this neocities thing became a massive hive for people like this, but god damn is it depressing that you can't have any niche, cool thing without it being a tranny hotspot.
 
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