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

[senmut]

And now you have me wondering who owns the servers at Neocities, what service they use, will they have to put things in place to guard against issues...

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.

[stefanyeah]

Hello, new follower. *waves*
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.