Neocities.org
meel's infinite art project
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I’m going to be writing a small piece about the current state of neocities so I have two questions for you all. Are there any differences here that you’ve noticed recently that weren’t here in the past? And This could be about the userbase, the way the site is run/moderated, or anything in between. Positive or negative. And is there anything you would change/add/remove about neocities if possible?
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i am going to write so much in one day just you see
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i am on break but warning even after i come back im probably still going to be fairly inactive because school year is starting for me
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added a page for my art, havent been drawing a lot recently but it will be updated sometimes
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moved the little button ad marquee to have its own page bc it did not look gooud where it was
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The userbase is, for the most part, not bad. However, the few dweebs that do thrive off negative attention/drama in general are really loud and we've been noticing an increase in users like that in the past few weeks or so.
Neocities is cool, but I think the Twitter-like feed does it a disservice, even if it's useful. It doesn't help that the block button doesn't work.
I think a good way to make this better would be to not have the ability to post updates that aren't site-related. That way, you'd have to go out of your way to indulge in dumbass drama and others would have to go out of their way to click on your site to see it.
Word travels fast because of the amount of mutual following sites. The block function (if it worked like any other block on a social site) would've worked a lot better in filtering it. I want to follow sites for their content, but sometimes not their feed because a minority use it to harass, engage in drama and other shit.
the thing is i feel like neocities just randomly turned into a miniature version of twitter because of comments in general
The format of profile comments is definitely twitter-like in both design and usage. I also really wish follower and view counts weren't visible to profile visitors (or could be toggled off)
imo one of the (many!!) reasons to leave social media for neocities is to untangle yourself from the dopamine hits from having Funny Little Numbers on your profile, so having that stuff here feels like it kinda defeats the point, yknow?
definitely a lot more really young kids on here. i registered in 2019 bcs an artist i liked had an account, and i just happened to start coding now of all times. some sites are still here, but now there are a lot more young teenagers coming from a place of webcore nostalgia-for-something-not-experienced. its not bad but it definitely makes the userbase different
imo id remove the comments and profile feature and make finding sites exclusive to places like districts and the website browsing tab. ive seen too many ppl post stuff i did not want to see on the comments page lol