Jun. 22nd, 2023 09:49 am
Archiving on Neocities
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binary_sunsetNow, 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.
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.
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And right away, I find a post resonating with what I've been tinkering with.
(and hopefully Neocities also supports CSS to save me some major headaches in coding)
They do. I had a few days of frustrated joy setting up some CSS that looks nice enough for now.
However, I then realised, I stand no chance to prevent any AI scraping there, so that project's been put asleep again rather quickly.
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Glad NeoCities supports CSS. Using classes is SO much easier than fat-fingering the code in yourself, like I had to back in ye olde days of making sites on Neopets XD
Hopefully someone will come up with a plugin to help with scraping? Definitely something to look into. AO3 has some sort of built in anti-scraping tool, so hopefully that technology can become more available. It's so frustrating that we even have to worry about this shit. I just want to write my silly stories in peace!
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Yeah, CSS makes it so much easier to have sites looking pretty and consistent. :D
I've found this page about preventing scraping, but I'm not sure how much of that is possible on Neocities…
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