That’s a fun set of features, but I don’t see the connection with the community. You can browse their mastodon feed and it’s just a bunch of vaguely liberal vaguely tech posts? I’d like to see which accounts are using the services for a better community
Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet
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#132Is this different from neocities ?
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#133I checked out Omg.lol when it first got popular on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34269772 ). At the time, I thought it was an amalgamation of things I already did on my own or otherwise had a community for (e.g., Neocities, Tilde Town). Now, though, I think I get it. There's something to be said for sustained energy.
Nice blog you have there! My RSS reader finds a feed on your website, but has problems showing it. It seems to validate as a valid Atom feed, so I was wondering if you ever heard before of external sites not being able to load it?
If you're talking about my personal site https://benovermyer.com, no, I have not heard of problems rendering the RSS for it.
If you are having issues I would like as much detail as you can provide.
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#134I checked out Omg.lol when it first got popular on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34269772 ). At the time, I thought it was an amalgamation of things I already did on my own or otherwise had a community for (e.g., Neocities, Tilde Town). Now, though, I think I get it. There's something to be said for sustained energy.
> Now, though, I think I get it. What do you get now?
The community vibe. The energy. The reason for something technologically commonplace to be exceptional and worth interest.
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#135The "web design in 4 min" linked to at the bottom of the page is very interesting.
I didn’t realise it was linked to in this article. I built that on a whim several years ago. It’s more about what can be done in 4 min rather than what’s being done. But I’m glad it inspired people to try to style their own website themselves.
OP here. I love that little site and I link to it often!
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#136So like Bravenet but in 2023?
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#137I've been using Omg.lol for around a year now (Cian.lol) and am really enjoying it. It's just so simple - it feels like travelling back in time to when we wrote blog posts and made websites to share with our friends, not to Create Content.
That internet is not dead, you know? It’s just the the other part grew so massively. There are still people writing blog posts and websites that don’t require you to dismiss 5 popups before you can interact with it. It can be done.
Give me your favorite small web links
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#139Sorry, why would I pay 20/year bucks for this when I have my own website/infra?
If you have your own infrastructure to host all of these services then you're probably not the target audience. It's ok, it's my case too. But you have to admit that $20/year is quite cheap for all of what is provided here, without having to manage it all yourself, and with a "no trackers no bullshit" way of doing things. It's really the kind of services I don't need but would almost like to need! The last time I had…
Github pages is free. A .info domain is $5/year.
That's already more than half the features you get with this, and you get to be on the actual internet, not some dude's silo.
As the post's age goes on, I see more criticism, and less positive reactions.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, JS does less with it’s stdlib, which I think means a lot of people end up using mostly decent packages from npm instead of writing extra garbage themselves.
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For the last few weeks you’ve been mostly posting grammar correction comments. Why? I’ll give you something to keep your interest: wensday.