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

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Post by reactordev »

nicoburns wrote: post #40
reactordev wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that virtual space is on their phones, not on some website. It's an app. And they have been doing this for about a decade. There's no going back to the Web 1.0. Those days are gone. Saddled by corporations and laws and governance and greed. Now, it's an autobahn to fast cash, narcissistic content creators, award-winning ones too, decentralization, digital-byte-ponzi-schemes, and front-end developers creating 100,000…

The mainstream is, but I think old-style web is becoming a niche interest (as it was before it went mainstream) akin to any other hobby.

You may be right, but it was always there. It's not like it's coming back. Sure, some people may create things that resemble the old web but the old web is still out there, getting it's AARP card.

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

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Post by miragecraft »

cebert wrote: post #2

If this is ad free and free to publish on, what’s the monetization strategy? What the benefit to using Nekoweb over publishing static content to S3/CloudFront?

Benefit is probably community and exposure, if you are worried about long term viability just use custom domain and keep backups.

And I doubt the type of user Nekoweb (and Neocities) targets is well-versed or comfortable with S3/Cloudfront.

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

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Post by fantasyui-com »

Has anybody made a retro page yet?

Post it here, let's start a web ring!!!

I made mine, it was super fun: https://catpea.nekoweb.org/

Also, the freaking marquee tag still works!

Here is something to bring tears to your eyes: https://web.archive.org/web/20011201030230/http://davinci.ic...

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

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Post by jetbalsa »

fantasyui-com wrote: post #45

Has anybody made a retro page yet? Post it here, let's start a web ring!!! I made mine, it was super fun: https://catpea.nekoweb.org/ Also, the freaking marquee tag still works! Here is something to bring tears to your eyes: https://web.archive.org/web/20011201030230/http://davinci.ic...

marquee tag was never dropped, and its wild, Firefox's is more like the old days, a little jittery. Chrome/Edge is a ton smoother in its scroll

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

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Post by gnramires »

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…

Correction: I've got the integral wrong, of course :)

I've got an expression (after correcting my rusty maths) of

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

I think there could be precision problems (with p<2 specially)

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