It's Critter Time!

EdenCoven wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 11:28 am https://edencoven.neocities.org/

We made ours as a blog and place to post fiction we're writing (though we're kinda deep in the planning phase on that atm plus streaming and being sickly has eaten up evenings) and it's very nice to, if nothing else, have a space for long form thoughts that we can just put down in a linkable place. The page is marked for 18+ because we like the freedom to be honest about adult topics but there's not a lot of that

Cania wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 1:07 pm I have a website!

https://cania.zone

it started as a neo cities page but I eventually moved to nearly free speech. it's kind of out of date but still the best place to find links to everything I do.

linuxavali wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 1:32 pm Here's mine. I'm hosting this on my own private VPS.

https://linuxpony.dev

I built this before the plague of 2020, and I have been meaning to give it a face lift, but it serves it's purpose. The image slideshow things are horrendous and I hate them so I am looking forward to ripping them out

CherryPixelBun wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 2:01 pm Here's mine, been something I've chipped away at for a couple years now.
https://cherrypixelbun.gay/

It looks like Web 1.0 because like all my HTML knowledge comes from a book that's a year older than me and I read 15 years ago. I have intentionally doubled down on using as little CSS as possible to help ensure that it looks the same across as many old browsers as possible. The oldest I've tried is whatever version of IE WebTV is based on, both the viewer program on PC as well as the Dreamcast client on Flycast. It even has funny midis if you are on Internet Explorer.

Having a website is pretty fun, I mainly use mine to upload convention photos but I swear I'll use the blog eventually lol

darkwitchclaire wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 2:19 pm here's mine:

https://catwitch.gay/

heavily web 1.0 inspired site with a mostly table based layout based on a friend's site, on webspace with the goals of only using using minimal javascript and no server side scripting. it's also a respository of all the sfw art i commissioned.

NovaSquirrel wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 2:49 pm I've got https://novasquirrel.com/ which I host on a VPS. It mostly showcases things I've made.

I have a wiki at https://wiki.novasquirrel.com/ which was supposed to be a collaborative worldbuilding thing but that didn't really take off, so now it's just kind of sitting there and using a bunch of RAM, so I might eventually get rid of it. I have tried to migrate a lot of the information over to my main site with static web pages.

I have a blog at https://blog.novasquirrel.com/ which I made a year before Cohost shut down, when it had gotten really obvious it wasn't sticking around for much longer; it's supposed to be a place where I can write longer posts for their own sake or to link somewhere else. But I haven't really felt the need to write those lately since I got really comfortable just posting 1000 character posts on the Fediverse; I guess it might be a good idea to clean up some of the big posts from there and turn them into blog posts too.

There's also a second site at https://tilemap.town/ which is a furry roleplaying/chat game where people can use their own character graphics, and players can place tiles to create collaborative pixel art maps with other people to chat and RP in, but which has had a hard time finding its audience. Maybe that deserves its own thread? I feel weird promoting my own stuff sometimes.

The Green Herring wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 4:13 pm https://thegreenherring.neocities.org/

My weird textmode-esque website I've had since 2022, but did a wholescale makeover of last year. There will be a music section with my music once I've figured out the best way to handle it, but you can find all my retro art and games there. The site is intended for users 18 or older, but the most this manifests is in some art pieces which have 18+ content warnings and are age-gated (and most have non-18+ versions provided).

ReadeMe wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 4:59 pm This website is basically IMMORTAL has the vibes I love seeing around NeoCities lol. I even got to see THE Wizard!
I wanna follow your site but cant seem to get to the profile page for it on neocities lol, gets redirected to the actual site. Will just have to remember to look here every now and then.

Flann wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 4:45 pm Gonna throw my site into the ring as well:

https://this.squirrel.rocks/

It's pretty minimalistic, no bells and ribbons or glitter, some might even call it boring x3

I'm currently in the process of porting it to a static site generator but it's slow going due to me only really taking the time to work on that a few hours every other week or so ^^;

idadeerz wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 5:52 pm it's deerzone time

after cohost shut down, i programmed together my own site generator thingie. i started using Obsidian at the time and i really liked that, and i also needed to have some sort of blogging system that i could easily port all my cohost articles over to, so i came up with Deer Text Format.

so all the pages on the website are stored in a Markdown-inspired format with its own additions specific to web design, such as page metadata, divs, custom elements like a search bar and embeds, etc. whenever you load a page, there's some serverside code that automatically converts the text into a functional webpage. it also generates an RSS entry for each page so that you can easily keep an RSS feed running (which i haven't updated in ages because i got anxious about writing posts OOPS)

DTF docs in case you want to know even more

Q: isn't that kinda overkill. why isn't it static
A: i am very good at making PHP parse pieces of text and not very good at figuring out how to make it run standalone and spit out individual html files. that seems like a lot of work and a lot of files to keep track of. also, the search functionality is dynamic as it queries all the .dtf files in a user-specified folder. also like it's 2025 we should embrace web 2.0 and make cool things with it like this, who cares that it Does stuff on a Server

Q: wait. PHP? why PHP?
A: because i know how to use it

Q: can i use this for my own website
A: see i would really like to be able to share the code but i don't trust my abilities as a programmer that much. so it's not public because i am too afraid of sharing extremely crappy code with other ppl. i don't know what could realistically go wrong with it but that's kind of the problem. i mostly made it for myself in the first place. but idk if enough people want this i can start working on making it ready to be released publicly again

ReadeMe wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 6:07 pm

idadeerz wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 5:52 pm it's deerzone time

after cohost shut down, i programmed together my own site generator thingie. [...]

Thats a pretty dang hekkin cool site. Regardless of effort if its working, its working. I think a good bit of the LORE is going over my sleep deprived head but whats getting through sounds pretty impressive. I hardly remember any of the PHP I did learn back when I had my webdev classes.

ReadeMe wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 4:51 pm I love the idea of using a page as a reference for characters. Having the hex codes listed along with spaces for the bios and images is super hekkin cool. I gotta note that down for myself in the future!
The boop page is also nice and fun =P