Neocities and the Yesterweb - The Second Coming of Tumblr. Led by a massive group of extremist hypocrites that go by neopronouns and full of webrings devoted to "transing the internet".

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Die.

Anyway not sure how it looks on PC but the site looks like shit on mobile. The text wrapping is worse than on sites that haven't been updated since the late 90's.

I'm also quite interested in the backstory behind the Google Document mentioned.
 
didelphigina said:
Which I don't like at all. Why does everyone need to know if your stuff updates from even a minuté standard? That should be optional. It's like they're trying to find an easier way to snuff out the wrongthink websites from their pro-genderspecial/leftist site.
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Okay, messed around with something for past few days and haven't gotten any angry comments or anything so far (although the content is purposely controversial, so I will know if these people are able to see it):

Under your username dropdown in the right-hand corner -> Settings -> Manage Site Settings

Don't use any site tags; leave "Tags" section empty
Under "18+" section, check the box

The first one removes the likelihood someone can stumble upon your site through the Neocities search (which only searches for tags. Haven't found a way to search for users/site names, so you can put something offensive if you want and they won't be able to find it).

The second takes your site updates off the public announcement browser. However, I haven't found out what they mean by "listed on a special browse page", nor have I found this "special browse page", so assume somebody, somewhere can still see your updates.

Under your username dropdown -> Profile
This is where your public site updates will show up, but only once a day, so I think you can make more changes on the same day without worry, but you have to delete the updates as soon as you get one. AFAIK if you delete them that takes them off the public browser.

With that, you should be able to do whatever and not risk the wrath of the cancel crowd. But of course be careful where you share the link.


By the way, while I was doing this, I noticed that Bluesky integration is built-in into the site settings, but no other social media site is. Well Neocities, I guess you know your fanbase very well.

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Happy New Year! 🥂
 
Fallout Fan said:
Under your username dropdown -> Profile
This is where your public site updates will show up, but only once a day, so I think you can make more changes on the same day without worry, but you have to delete the updates as soon as you get one. AFAIK if you delete them that takes them off the public browser.
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I think disabling your site profile in settings takes care of the problem of manually having to delete things and eliminates people being able to sperg out on your site profile. I can't remember for sure, though.
 
Inatrous said:
Stylistically, the site is a glitterbomb even by neocities standards (archive) everything sparkles, and if it doesn't sparkle, it's got rainbow animations on hover. Content wise, it seems to mostly be a WIP, but between the perfume reviews and the open fondness for all things girly, I think we have managed to find the rare woman who (openly) enjoys being a women, despite the she/they listed in her pronoun list for cover.
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This site is such a UX disaster it makes my laptop run at 10 FPS and the amount of shit that moves when you hover over it makes me want to puke.

You know one thing we liked about the old web?
It didn't actively FIGHT WITH YOUR MOUSE POINTER when you tried to fucking use it.
 
Severed Penis Klinic said:
When I looked I saw around 5,300 viewable sites (53 pages x 100 sites per page) with 1,017 tagged with "trans." So around one in five sites, still insane but not as bad as 44%.
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It's more. Many are not tagged as "trans". However, if you look at the site, the owner will mention being trans in some way.

From the sites I've looked at (about 35 at random) without a "trans" tag: roughly 1/2 were clearly trans, 1/4 were some other RGB flavor but not explicitly trans. The rest I either couldn't say, or they were some other kind of mental illness: fujo, furry, etc. I even found one groyper.

Granted, I've looked mostly at anime themed ones - but still. If you take 1/2 of the ones not tagged as "trans" but just as "anime" and add them, how much will that increase the percentage?
 
Dropping in with some Neocities news: According to Kyle, Neocities and all its subdomains have been de-indexed from Bing, completely arbitrarily, with no communication, and no clue what to do or how to fix it, despite months of trying. He published this on his blog, and you can feel the frustration.

Neocities Is Blocked by Bing​


Jan 27, 2026


Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.neocities.org), from its search index.

This is not a partial demotion, a ranking issue, or a temporary crawl problem. The entire domain is completely excluded.

In addition to excluding neocities.org from search results, when we discovered the block, Bing was also placing what appeared to be a phishing attack against Neocities on the first page of search results. This is not only bad for search results, it’s very possible that it is actively dangerous. After complaints (it required several) they deranked the suspected phishing site, but neocities.org results remain blocked, and it is possibly only a matter of time before another concerning site appears on Bing searches for Neocities (it’s easy to get higher pagerank than a blocked site).

In addition to the safety concerns, this also unfairly affects over 1.5 million independent websites hosted on Neocities, the vast majority of which are personal, artistic, educational, or experimental projects with no commercial or malicious intent. These are brilliant and wonderful sites with billions of human visitors per month and they don’t deserve to be blocked from an entire search engine for no reason.

We have repeatedly attempted to resolve this through Bing’s official webmaster and support channels, and a few internal channels. Despite these efforts, Bing has declined to reverse the block or provide a clear, actionable explanation for it. At this point, we have exhausted all reasonable avenues for remediation except public disclosure.

Because of this, we are recommending that Neocities users, and the broader internet in general, not use Bing or search engines that source their results from Bing until this issue is resolved.

In addition to Bing, there are other search engines that currently rely on Bing’s search results, including but not limited to DuckDuckGo.

If you use Bing or Bing-powered search engines, Neocities sites will not appear in your search results, regardless of content quality, originality, or compliance with webmaster guidelines. If any Neocities-like sites appear on these results, they may be active phishing attacks against Neocities and should be treated with caution.

What This Is Not​

To be clear:

  • This is not the result of widespread malware or phishing on Neocities
  • This is not due to a technical misconfiguration that Bing has identified
  • This is not the result of policy violations communicated to us in a meaningful way
  • This is not because we haven’t made multiple good-faith attempts to contact Bing for resolution
  • This is not because of low quality AI slop, of which Neocities has almost none
  • This is not because of suborigin issues (Bing has documented that they understand suborigins)
Neocities allows users to publish HTML, just like every other general-purpose web host. We have always responded to valid abuse reports and comply with applicable law. In addition, we have an active and sophisticated moderation process that removes the vast majority of malicious sites pre-emptively before they are even indexed by search engines.

Why We’re Posting This Publicly​

We did not want to write this post. We try very hard to have a good relationship with search engine providers. We would much rather quietly resolve this issue with Bing staff and move on.

But after months of attempting to engage constructively through multiple channels, it became clear that silence only harms our users. Especially those who don’t realize their sites are invisible on some search engines.

We decided to post this so that:

  • users understand that their sites aren’t appearing on Bing or Bing-powered search engines
  • web users can make informed choices about what search engines they can trust to be safe and reliable
  • the situation is documented transparently and publicly

Our Recommendation​

If you care about discovering independent websites made by real human beings, personal pages, and creative projects on the open web, we recommend using search engines other than Bing.

At the time of writing, Neocities sites continue to be indexed normally by most major search engines, including Google.

We will update this post if Bing reverses its decision or meaningfully engages with us to resolve the issue (if you work at Bing or Microsoft and can fix this, please contact us, we would really love to talk to you). Until then, we cannot recommend Bing or Bing-powered search engines to our users, where you will not even find this blog post in the search results.

It's worrisome to watch the edges of the Internet crumble like this. Sites like Kiwifarms getting de-listed isn't fair, but you can at least understand it in the sense that they're easy targets: "bad" sites with a lot of controversial content and outspoken web admins who refuse to sit pretty or play nice. But Neocities is run by a silicone valley leftist who's as close to normal as guys like that can get. His userbase might be full of freaks, but they're not the kind of freaks with the kind of material that would or should get a domain scrubbed from an entire search engine.

Neocities is still on other crawlers, including Google, but I fear this just goes to show how cooked the Internet truly is. You can do everything right, you can be everything right, and they'll still hurt you, regardless.

Oddly, Nekoweb still pops up on Bing just fine. Either they haven't been noticed yet, or for some reason, this block is NC-specific.
 
Dunno if this is the best place to mention this... but you guys should check out wiby.me. It's a pretty cool search indexer for older websites and older simpler styled websites.

Comfy shit.
 
Inatrous said:
His userbase might be full of freaks, but they're not the kind of freaks with the kind of material that would or should get a domain scrubbed from an entire search engine.
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Even thought he seems to deny it in that article you've posted, neocities very much is exploited by malicious actors.

The indicated site here is now dead, but it demonstrates historical malicious use: Any.run report

Here's another. The indicated site in the report is still very much live as of my making this post. Do not go to the neocities site indicated/execute what it downloads; it's malicious .vbs.

So yeah, his service is being used as malicious infrastructure.
 
Rekeita's Kidneys said:
Dunno if this is the best place to mention this... but you guys should check out wiby.me. It's a pretty cool search indexer for older websites and older simpler styled websites.

Comfy shit.
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The suprise me option is increadably addicting. The biggest suprise was encountering a Like Smith type traditionalist, basically the inverse of all the troon sites. https://moistgoulash.neocities.org/
 
23iwakura23 said:
Even thought he seems to deny it in that article you've posted, neocities very much is exploited by malicious actors.

The indicated site here is now dead, but it demonstrates historical malicious use: Any.run report

Here's another. The indicated site in the report is still very much live as of my making this post. Do not go to the neocities site indicated/execute what it downloads; it's malicious .vbs.

So yeah, his service is being used as malicious infrastructure.
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Fair - he may be exaggerating or fudging the truth, but on the same hand, is the %number of malicious Neocities sites so high it warrants a full blackout? Especially if the host has a history of compliance with takedown requests, responds promptly to reports, and acts within its means to pull down bad actors as they find them.

Bing was fine with leaving up a phishing site in the first page of results, too, so its not like they're doing this out of care and love of user safety. Turbo-gay they all may be, but unless there's more information floating around, someone has proof either that the number of dangerous sites Neocities hosts is legitimately high and/or they actively negligent with regards to moderation , this action does appear to be arbitrary, and Neocities is very much in the right to be mad about it..

A small update on the subject: Kicking up a fuss *does* seem to have done Kyle some good. Duckduckgo, which uses Bing on its backend, has deployed a fix to restore his site's presence in its search.

We just deployed an update for this issue. Neocities results should now be appearing again when searching for "neocities" or for sites with neocities.org in the URL. (Let us know if you see otherwise) Sites hosted on Neocities that don't include neocities.org in the URL shouldn't have been affected.

Looks like soyboy tears are an effective weapon after all!

And before I forget-

Link and Archive

(Thanks to @nyblanc for fixing the slipup in my last post.)
 
Inatrous said:
Especially if the host has a history of compliance with takedown requests, responds promptly to reports, and acts within its means to pull down bad actors as they find them.
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If I were to guess, I would think the problem is that they provide free subdomains.

The cost of a domain is a friction point in being able to setup malicious infrastructure, so a lot of free subdomain providers do end up in trouble. For example, afraid.org's free domains don't tend to show up in searches either, and yes, a lot of malicious infra is setup on those too. Like go try to look up a site that's on 69.mu or something. You won't find much.

Anything that assists with free hosting tends to get viewed with suspicion for security reasons. For example, having a Let's Encrypt SSL cert triggers certain security products. The unfortunate truth is that free infrastructure = infrastructure that a desperate 3rd world scammer can afford to run their shit.

Inatrous said:
A small update on the subject: Kicking up a fuss *does* seem to have done Kyle some good. Duckduckgo, which uses Bing on its backend, has deployed a fix to restore his site's presence in its search.
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That's good.
 
Found a little Neocities site with some video game reviews of old Mac games. Let's see if the author is a normal, if slightly autistic...

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Shit.
 
Mainstream websites are dead unless you want to do the goy shuffle with the algorithm. 4chan dead, Reddit doesn’t even need a comment, Neocities a troon heaven.
Is there any at least relatively normal place on the Internet left? Any neocities alternative?
 
Xarpho's Return said:
Found a little Neocities site with some video game reviews of old Mac games. Let's see if the author is a normal, if slightly autistic...

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Shit.
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As the old saying goes, HRT (and femboyshit) devastated nerd communities like crack did to black communties in the 80s, and I don't know if there's a way to undo the damage anymore.
I also miss when nerdy websites did not have to be either jeetified or trannyfied.
 
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