Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting

nekoweb.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 121 posts

Re: Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting

#21

Post by echelon »

zeroCalories wrote: post #12

I'm always surprised by the creativity of these personal websites. The web is so utilitarian and marketing oriented that I forget that a web page is a blank canvas ready for artistic expression.

If Neocities captured the Geocities / Angelfire vibes of 1995 - 2001, then Nekoweb captures the budding anime / early Millennial vibe of 2000 - 2006. This was right around the time that Xanga, LiveJournal, and the rest started peeling apart the indie web.

And by the time Facebook started growing, it was game over.

Re: Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting

#22

Post by gnramires »

dimden wrote: post #5
shantnutiwari wrote: post #3

Like neocities? Whats the difference?

It is pretty similar to Neocities. A little bit of differences are: - you can style your site box for discovery page - no limit for file types and some paid plan differences: - ftp support - up to 5 custom domains - cheaper (you can get 1 custom domain for $1 or 5 and all perks for $3 vs neocities' $5)

This is pretty cool! If I may suggest something, on the explore view, avoid showing most popular (I think it can lead to rote behavior!)

If I may suggest another algorithm, something like picking from most popular to least with probability ~1/(rank+k)^p, where p is any number >1, for example set p=1.5, k=10.

It can be implemented the following way (by computing the integral of the probability distribution):

(1) Have sorted index by popularity with n items

(2) Pick a random (double) r between 0 and 1

(3) The chosen index is (if I did my integrals right;round to nearest integer):

i = ( k^(p-1)*(n-1+k)^(p-1) / ( (r+1)*(n-1+k)^(p-1) - r*k^(p-1) ) ) ^ 1/(p-1) - k

Re: Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting

#24

Post by dimden »

gnramires wrote: post #22
dimden wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is pretty similar to Neocities. A little bit of differences are: - you can style your site box for discovery page - no limit for file types and some paid plan differences: - ftp support - up to 5 custom domains - cheaper (you can get 1 custom domain for $1 or 5 and all perks for $3 vs neocities' $5)

This is pretty cool! If I may suggest something, on the explore view, avoid showing most popular (I think it can lead to rote behavior!) If I may suggest another algorithm, something like picking from most popular to least with probability ~1/(rank+k)^p, where p is any number >1, for example set p=1.5, k=10. It can be implemented the following way (by computing the integral of the probability distribution): (1) Have…

sorry im too dumb to comprehend this math

Re: Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting

#26

Post by gnramires »

dimden wrote: post #24
gnramires wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is pretty cool! If I may suggest something, on the explore view, avoid showing most popular (I think it can lead to rote behavior!) If I may suggest another algorithm, something like picking from most popular to least with probability ~1/(rank+k)^p, where p is any number >1, for example set p=1.5, k=10. It can be implemented the following way (by computing the integral of the probability distribution): (1) Have…

sorry im too dumb to comprehend this math

No worries :P It's just a way to try to avoid showing the most popular, instead you'd choose randomly from a curve from most popular to least popular, with the chosen index given by i. An easier idea to understand is to pick randomly from the top say 50 websites instead of just showing the most popular ones, avoiding "winner takes all" effects.

Re: Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting

#28

Post by kibwen »

chriscjcj wrote: post #15

I was a little disappointed not to see an "under construction" banner on any of the websites I surfed.

The Internet Archive offers a tool whose entire purpose is to let you search gifs scraped from GeoCities. Here's a search for "under construction", eat your heart out: https://gifcities.org/?q=under+construction

Re: Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting

#29

Post by chriscjcj »

kibwen wrote: post #28
chriscjcj wrote: post #15

I was a little disappointed not to see an "under construction" banner on any of the websites I surfed.

The Internet Archive offers a tool whose entire purpose is to let you search gifs scraped from GeoCities. Here's a search for "under construction", eat your heart out: https://gifcities.org/?q=under+construction

That was a real hoot to scroll through. Thank you!

And then there's "PAUCI." (People Against Under Construction Images.) I guess their hard work, dedication, and commitment to the cause finally paid off. https://www.andrews.edu/~rickyr/noconst.html

Re: Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting

#30

Post by zelse »

kibwen wrote: post #28
chriscjcj wrote: post #15

I was a little disappointed not to see an "under construction" banner on any of the websites I surfed.

The Internet Archive offers a tool whose entire purpose is to let you search gifs scraped from GeoCities. Here's a search for "under construction", eat your heart out: https://gifcities.org/?q=under+construction

Jason @ textfiles also did a nice compilation: http://textfiles.com/underconstruction/

There's a delightful irony in the fact that such a page would absolutely have murdered a browser from its era. Nevertheless, these remind me of a different internet and scratch one heck of a nostalgia zone.

Post reply on HN