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Re: NeoCities

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Post by kyledrake »

zephjc wrote: post #4

I think people are aiming to create the original geocities experience too: Examples: http://poeks.neocities.org/ http://skry.neocities.org/ http://jeremy.neocities.org/

There definitely needs to be some polish to the initial site I think. We have been talking about making something similar to Twitter Bootstrap that's designed for HTML newcomers, so that even really basic sites have a base-level good look to them. We're also talking about a WYSIWYG HTML editor, but we decided that we would launch to the tech crowds first, who have experience with HTML and are comfortable dealing with no initial boilerplate frameworks, and would appreciate the value of what we're trying to provider here (an open canvas).

That said, I don't care if people use it for Geocities parodies. I think Geocities sites are a lot more interesting than the bland, drab Facebook profile layout that everybody is forced into with no ability to change in any meaningful way.

Re: NeoCities

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Post by stinky613 »

mperham wrote: post #3

Add a premium tier, even something as simple as integrated web analytics. Donations are charity. If you want this to be a sustainable business, ask for people to pay for value.

I was thinking about this too. I agree that counting on donations in sufficient quantity and regularity is like buying lotto tickets to pay your electric bill.

And if they add a premium tier... well then that kind of kills their differentiation, doesn't it? They're aiming for the niche of free, modest, simple, laissez faire vis-a-vis content. When you take 'free' out of the mix then you're in the arena of commoditized cheap hosting; inertia would be the only reason for someone to upgrade their free account to a premium plan.

Re: NeoCities

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Post by vec »

zephjc wrote: post #4

I think people are aiming to create the original geocities experience too: Examples: http://poeks.neocities.org/ http://skry.neocities.org/ http://jeremy.neocities.org/

Needs more s! And I count a grand total of zero and tags. C'mon people, if you want to party like it's 1999 you've got to step up your game!

Re: NeoCities

#16

Post by Simucal »

kyledrake wrote: post #7
stinky613 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, wow. It's like going to a civil war reenactment where everyone adhere strictly to period customs and vernacular. Unfortunately they forgot center tags and to capitalize all of their HTML. I was going to say it's missing a table-based layout, but then I recalled that the height of geocities' popularity was earlier than I remember seeing table-based layouts everywhere. It's really not very assuring when they stat…

The site will very easily pay for itself with donations. It's not that expensive to serve static HTML, especially when you are using Nginx and sendfile.

Does Nginx use sendfile under the hood or is it something you would use separately?

Re: NeoCities

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Post by stinky613 »

kyledrake wrote: post #7
stinky613 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, wow. It's like going to a civil war reenactment where everyone adhere strictly to period customs and vernacular. Unfortunately they forgot center tags and to capitalize all of their HTML. I was going to say it's missing a table-based layout, but then I recalled that the height of geocities' popularity was earlier than I remember seeing table-based layouts everywhere. It's really not very assuring when they stat…

The site will very easily pay for itself with donations. It's not that expensive to serve static HTML, especially when you are using Nginx and sendfile.

That wasn't really my point. It doesn't inspire confidence when the host says "hey! put your stuff here! I'm not sure that I can pay the bills each month but I sure hope we can. Oh--and I have no idea how this will scale."

It's all understandable. But even if it's free and even if my content is stupid, I'd still feel a little uncomfortable because of how much doubt the owner expresses over the viability of the service.

Re: NeoCities

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Post by RBerenguel »

stinky613 wrote: post #6
zephjc wrote: post #4

I think people are aiming to create the original geocities experience too: Examples: http://poeks.neocities.org/ http://skry.neocities.org/ http://jeremy.neocities.org/

Haha, wow. It's like going to a civil war reenactment where everyone adhere strictly to period customs and vernacular. Unfortunately they forgot center tags and to capitalize all of their HTML. I was going to say it's missing a table-based layout, but then I recalled that the height of geocities' popularity was earlier than I remember seeing table-based layouts everywhere. It's really not very assuring when they stat…

And !

Re: NeoCities

#20

Post by citricsquid »

lotharbot wrote: post #10

It's never too early for scams. http://secure.neocities.org/ "Security page. Please enter your password here."

A couple of years back there was a website I use that switched to usernames as sub domains and I managed to break it by using "webmail" as a username, another user took "ns1" and "ns2" and now my first port of call on sites like this always checking out "webmail", "ns1" and "ns2". So childish but good harmless fun.
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