Archiving on Neocities

[binary_sunset]

Now, I don't know much about what's going on at AO3, but I do hope that the OTW can get its shit together and address what needs to be addressed. But I am thinking it's time I had my own private place on the internet to catalogue my fics. Maybe even with one of those old-school "I don't own this, this is not for profit" disclaimers.

With how hostile the larger sites have become (post-Musk Twitter, post-purge tumblr, Reddit's recent implosion), I think it's high time that we as internet people start to create the websites we want to see. I'm still planning on using Dreamwidth (and I guess also tumblr, but I'm a fairly passive presence on there tbh) mostly as a forum, with my actual writing being archived over on Neocities.

Has anyone here used it before? Do you have any tips on how it's best used? I do know enough HTML to get by (and hopefully Neocities also supports CSS to save me some major headaches in coding), so that's not an issue.

IDK man, I'd like to have some control over the stuff I make. I'm sick of what's "allowed" being up the whims of advertisers.

Comments

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>IDK man, I'd like to have some control over the stuff I make. I'm sick of what's "allowed" being up the whims of advertisers.<<

I agree. That's why I backed the Fujoshi Guide even though I can't code. If I help other people learn how to code, maybe they'll make better sites than the megacorp crap.

Re: Thoughts

[binary_sunset]

Oh, I am into this! What a fun way to get people into coding! I took a web design class in college and, while I liked HTML and CSS fine, once we got to PHP it was hell.

Honestly, though, I cannot tell you how much I trust Weird Women On The Internet over silicon valley jerks.

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Oh, I am into this! What a fun way to get people into coding! I took a web design class in college and, while I liked HTML and CSS fine, once we got to PHP it was hell.<<

I thought the hawt boys were very cute. I could enjoy it for the art even though my coding ability tops out at making a link in a comment.

>> Honestly, though, I cannot tell you how much I trust Weird Women On The Internet over silicon valley jerks.<<

Exactly. Fix sexism in computers by introducing more women. Fix racism by having people of color code. Make things more accessible by enabling disabled coders to create programs. And so on. Any problem caused by a lack of representation can be fixed by throwing trait-having people at it.