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Re: NeoCities

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Post by brennannovak »

ddinh wrote: post #26

It's definitely an awesome project, but I just don't see the advantage of NeoCities over hosting a website on Github or BitBucket yet, especially since those sites offer unlimited space and store all the old versions of your website for you. Some differentiation with those services is needed - for example, a privacy policy guaranteeing true anonymity (no IP address stored, no cookies) or a more layperson-accessible w…

Those have significant learning curves to people who don't speak web-l337 yet. Remember before you knew how to code? What version control was, and documentation was scary? Angelfire & GeoCities is where I learned to code HTML

Re: NeoCities

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Post by [deleted] »

slg wrote: post #22

Don't use this for anything you view as important. I just checked and there is no collision detection for usernames. You can signup for an account using any name and your account will seemingly just replace the previous created account. That is a big enough and obvious enough flaw that it also makes we wonder if this is just a phishing expedition or a way to mine email addresses.

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Re: NeoCities

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Post by ErikAugust »

slg wrote: post #22

Don't use this for anything you view as important. I just checked and there is no collision detection for usernames. You can signup for an account using any name and your account will seemingly just replace the previous created account. That is a big enough and obvious enough flaw that it also makes we wonder if this is just a phishing expedition or a way to mine email addresses.

I'm logged in as "www" right now.

Re: NeoCities

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Post by daviddoran »

slg wrote: post #22

Don't use this for anything you view as important. I just checked and there is no collision detection for usernames. You can signup for an account using any name and your account will seemingly just replace the previous created account. That is a big enough and obvious enough flaw that it also makes we wonder if this is just a phishing expedition or a way to mine email addresses.

I thought david.neocities.org should have been taken, now that you point it out.

Re: NeoCities

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Post by unknownian »

stinky613 wrote: post #12
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 commoditize…

Yep, services that are about uncensorship generally don't do paid tiers. See: 4chan, Rizon, groups that release pirated videos, etc.

Re: NeoCities

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Post by csomar »

There are 61054 web site spaces remaining. After that, we need your help to get another server.

Does that mean he's running 61k sites on a single server? Even if each site gets one single visitor per day, that 61k visitors for the Server. There is no way the server can manage that traffic.

Sorry, but do you really want a static site? Just pay for a good one.

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