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Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by TeMPOraL » Sun, May 13, 2018, 8:12 PM UTC

terramex wrote: post #69

citricsquid wrote: post #35

A few months ago I created a project called Hypertext Town, a simple project where anybody can create "camps" (a collection of HTML, images etc.) and connect them together through "towns". A town lives at a subdomain (e.g: town.hypertext.town) and a camp lives at /~camp (e.g: town.hypertext.town/~camp). I never "launched" it so it's just been languishing in obscurity on the www but if anybody wants to make cute littl…

This is great! I love it! I've been looking for an 'uncool' space to create little, text based personal website and it seems to be perfect.

Hello from fellow Pole. Saw your page. Love the video :D.

Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by kiliantics » Sun, May 13, 2018, 8:12 PM UTC

breaker05 wrote: post #37

I have fun making stuff like when I made https://goatattack.com/

Wow, I never knew I would need this in my life. Thank you!

Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by madeofpalk » Sun, May 13, 2018, 8:12 PM UTC

wutbrodo wrote: post #57

madeofpalk wrote: post #43

> We used to make websites because it was fun and at a point we lost the way I know this is just some little tongue in cheek joke, but I can't help but vehemently disagree with this. Never did we only make websites just "because it was fun" any more or less than we do now.

I'm not sure that's true. The internet has largely shifted away from using customizable www sites for personal expression in the way people used to. Much of this activity has now moved to Facebook et al.

I'm not sure that's true. People still have personal sites they use. Hell, I would argue that there are more ways for people to express themselves online now, and the raw number of people doing this is has massively increased.

"Commerical internet" existed 'back then' as well.

Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by citricsquid » Sun, May 13, 2018, 8:12 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #48

citricsquid wrote: post #35

A few months ago I created a project called Hypertext Town, a simple project where anybody can create "camps" (a collection of HTML, images etc.) and connect them together through "towns". A town lives at a subdomain (e.g: town.hypertext.town) and a camp lives at /~camp (e.g: town.hypertext.town/~camp). I never "launched" it so it's just been languishing in obscurity on the www but if anybody wants to make cute littl…

Cool! I like the simplicity. If anyone wants to play, I've made a town for us. https://residents.hypertext.town/join/hackernews

Although undocumented, there is a way to programmatically get the camps in a town, you can check the www. town source for an example of how I've done it, the endpoint is `/camps`, e.g:

https://hackernews.hypertext.town/camps :)

Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by booleandilemma » Sun, May 13, 2018, 8:13 PM UTC

davidsawyer wrote: post #23

Needs a hit counter!

And a guestbook!

Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 13, 2018, 8:14 PM UTC

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Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by tetha » Sun, May 13, 2018, 8:16 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #53

tombert wrote: post #25

I agree with the sentiment of this site. I have an nginx proxy set up for personal stuff, and the home page was done in an homage to GeoCities: https://brucewillis.sexy/ Eventually I will get midi music playing correctly with mouse-tails.

Needs more dancing hamsters.

I just had to look this[1] up again. Made me very happy for some reason.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WpMlwVwydo

Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by timvdalen » Sun, May 13, 2018, 8:18 PM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #74

TeMPOraL wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool! I like the simplicity. If anyone wants to play, I've made a town for us. https://residents.hypertext.town/join/hackernews

Although undocumented, there is a way to programmatically get the camps in a town, you can check the www. town source for an example of how I've done it, the endpoint is `/camps`, e.g: https://hackernews.hypertext.town/camps :)

Ah that's cool, the Town had better show off all of the cool camps :)

Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by reaperducer » Sun, May 13, 2018, 8:19 PM UTC

Finnucane wrote: post #42

Needs a hit counter at the bottom of the page. Also, a webring link. Really, we should bring back webring links.

> Really, we should bring back webring links

I think the current equivalent is a "blogroll."

Re: Make front end shit again

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Post by superkuh » Sun, May 13, 2018, 8:19 PM UTC

I've never strayed from the ideas this site is talking about (though not practicing). All my sites are static HTML/CSS written by hand designed to display content rather than look pretty. I make them for fun or to scratch an itch.

The only line of JS I use on my personal site is optional to trigger a page reload to display a submitted comment with the rest. The comment system itself requires no JS to use. It's just a particular string, '/@say/your comment here' appended to any URL on the site. A perl script tails the nginx log and generates/modifies the static html files.

I feel like most of this kind of design has gone away because the people that make websites make them for commerce now and that requires a lot of bullshit. Bullshit which they bring home if only because of inertia.