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Re: Neocities: Create your own free website

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Post by Cyberdog »

cellular wrote: post #7

Can i add software for people to download? It seems dropbox is the only free solution but they make it look like you need to register to download (Dark pattern?).

You can host arbitrary files on it but Neocities isn't really intended as a file host along the lines of Dropbox. It's more for hosting general-purpose web sites.

Re: Neocities: Create your own free website

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Post by Cyberdog »

spwa4 wrote: post #2

Does it even properly implement the tag?

Neocities just hosts web sites. It's up for the author of the site to write a page with (if they really want to), then for the browser that visitors use to visit that site to implement its functionality. The web host has nothing to do with it.

Re: Neocities: Create your own free website

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Post by simoncion »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #10

It is weird that neither About, nor Terms or Contact pages mention who actually is behind this project. No name, no clear legal status, but collecting money and personal data of users. It may be a well-known service, but the number of users does not make it more trustworthy.

> It is weird that...

Doesn't strike this USian at all as weird. This describes most online entities that I interact with. Plus, there's always the site's contact form that you can use to ask for the information you want.

What makes me trust it a whole lot are this triplet of facts

1) AFAICT, neither their privacy policy nor their terms of service have been changed in more than a decade.

2) They do not require you to give up your right to access the courts in order to use their service.

3) The backend code is open source.

Re: Neocities: Create your own free website

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Post by alex1138 »

The death of Districts kills me. As far as I know this was baked into the origin Geocities (Yahoo, why the fuck did you buy it and then shut it down? albeit, 10 years later, but still). Neocities? It was a page someone made, and it's now a spinning rat image because of one tantrum or another

Re: Neocities: Create your own free website

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Post by j45 »

CM30 wrote: post #9

Have to be honest, while I like the concept of these services, I've never really found the motivation to use them. If I'd came across Neocities in the 90s or 00s I'd have been all over it, but it's hard to justify today when I'm already paying for web hosting elsewhere. It's like, if a more powerful solution exists elsewhere, I struggle to work within the limitations of a more restrictive one.

The majority of folks won't be setting up their own web-hosting, and this can fit them.

We have to remember that everything doesn't have to be for everyone to be valid or reasonable.

Re: Neocities: Create your own free website

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Post by president_zippy »

cryo32 wrote: post #23
president_zippy wrote: post #19

I absolutely love neocities, I use it to host my goatse mirror (goatse.live).

A friend of mine wanted somewhere to host goatse for random QR codes he’s planning of sticking everywhere. Problem solved :)

By God, that's on another level. I'd be honored to have QR codes stuck to random walls and doors all over major cities linking to my shock site mirror!

Re: Neocities: Create your own free website

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Post by ianmf »

hoppp wrote: post #29
president_zippy wrote: post #19

I absolutely love neocities, I use it to host my goatse mirror (goatse.live).

For a moment I questioned reality and the world...thinking...does the word goatse have another meaning? So I checked your website...nope..it still means the same thing lol

Thanks for taking one for the team. I was about to do the same.
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