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there's the kind that ends a conversation and the kind that continues the conversation in a non-conflict-centric way. Iv always tried to achieve the latter; it's not always obvious, but it's always there. my man,,,,, you literally delete people's posts, edit their words, and lock or move topics tha...

I'm not sure why it's assumed that it's the mods' responsibility to archive it. perhaps someone wouldn't mind preserving the posts with a database dump, which i'm guessing only the webmaster has access to. i assume all phpBB databases have the same schema, so i wonder how hard it would be to just i...

Sinclair-Speccy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 11, 2023 3:17 am You guys had a brilliant concept, but terrible management caused it to fail...

my guess is sadness just didn't feel like paying for the server space anymore. hope that helps, OP

how do you reconcile the hyper kind vibe of stuff like Melonland with the vibe of chan-esque users? They seem like complete opposites of a spectrum to me, and have a hard time imagining someone genuinely liking both. (but no worries if you think this might get long or way too controversial) i think...

this is a bummer - this site was really cool to be a part of and interact with other people who are interested in early-web channels of communication. And it was fun to help people dabbling in web development, especially as someone who also really enjoys forum environments that are focused on promot...

codeacademy is a really good tool for getting hands-on experience. they'll run you through the basics here:

https://www.codecademy.com/catalog/language/javascript

and then you can choose to keep going with harder lessons or not

oops misread - thought you said $40/month. sorry!

I had no idea it was such a big deal :o I'm using Hosteons as a provider now, and I like them because I have a VPS with 2GB RAM (which seems to be on the higher end) and it only costs me $40 a year to keep up. If anyone knows of anything comparable to that, lemme know! I'd be open to seeing what el...

Sadness wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 2:28 pm The webring is back up! My VPS changed its IP and I missed the email telling me this. It took down a few other websites too... Oops! All is good now, though.

what the fuck???

time to switch providers

a back-to-top button in the bottom-right corner of the screen that tracks how far you've scrolled with a border around the button

i would invest some extra time in learning about CSS flexbox. "float" isn't really a good solution in making layouts anymore here's a quick example of what you probably are looking for (you might have a better time looking at this in a full-screen browser to get the idea, rather than the l...

im confused it seems to work with just inputting the ID now yeah?

Today I have updated the navigation section of my website, so in the mobile version you can expand and close it to conserve plenty of space. I also gave the entries in the main dream index descriptions to give readers an idea of what each entry is about. nice looks good! i would make the menu a <bu...

i usually 1. push new code up to github 2. when i want to make my changes live, create a release on github and tab it with a vX.X.X format 3. ssh into my server and pull down the latest release 4. run a docker command to build my code inside a docker container, so i can sure the site runs exactly th...

reacting to posts is what is so wrong about modern social media platforms Why do you think that it's inherently bad? i mean the same reason they're ass on social media. it just turns into making posts for the numbers. granted, it's probably only a problem for bigger communities, but i just think th...

Today I have updated the navigation section of my website, so in the mobile version you can expand and close it to conserve plenty of space. I also gave the entries in the main dream index descriptions to give readers an idea of what each entry is about. nice looks good! i would make the menu a <bu...

i think reactions are bad, and don't think anything is wrong with quoting a user and saying "lol" or something similar. Conversations feel more organic that way, and reacting to posts is what is so wrong about modern social media platforms

yep - i used to post some angsty shit on another board in the early 2010s, and have since gone bank to blank out some posts and remove all identifying info from my profile (even things like email address). i feel for the next generation of extremely online kids because holy fuck what a bad time to b...

i just added a "latest post" column to the forums on the homepage just like this site does. i find myself clicking on threads from those links a lot, so it's probably a good way to get more people to read different threads

very curious why that didn't bomb locally tho

also i noticed your website JS has this line clearTimeout(timeoutId); but at no point before do you define timeoutId, so it's erroring out on the client at that point. I would do something like this instead let timeoutId = null form.addEventListener("submit", e => { ...whatever clearTimeou...

sorry - i might need a little more information. so you're saying one of those python methods are running and it's just hanging in the command line or it's hanging when visiting the website in a browser? in any case, could you try wrapping all your python logic inside of a try/except? try: if request...

what's the error you're getting?

and also FWIW, there definitely are people who are still making some cool fringe dynamic content. this site we're posting on for example and https://forum.melonland.net, this poster's art site: https://nighten.fr/ to name just a few (though i get they're not handbuilt, but a step up from the neociti...

i think the neocities sites that are popping up are really cool - i agree, i don't love a lot of the designs but my first personal site was pretty shit too. i think eventually, it would be cool to see all the neocities people graduate to dynamic content. especially now that a lot of cloud providers ...

agreed. i think if discord just put you in like one general channel and linked you to a larger list of some that you can join/leave, the app would be 1000% times better

it's kind of funny to see other companies fumble this stuff as well. i previously worked on a sports betting website, so i looked a lot at competitor sites and after some time, i realized there is not one sports betting site that allows you to place a bet with just your keyboard. so i made sure ours...

What are some really annoying accessibility problems you've encountered from websites that you think should know better? Using elements for purposes they were never meant to be for (e.g. using a <DIV> as a button instead of using a <BUTTON>) this one has gotten really bad with the rise of component...

Website name: basement community https://basementcommunity.com What’s your website about? a forum for general discussion (although i'm thinking about re-working it to be more specific) How long have you been working on your website? since feb 2022. i just launched it last month What’s your newest w...

Age (or range): 20s Interests/hobbies: working on websites, weight lifting, playing video games What interests you about the Yesterweb? i like posting on web 1.0-type forums What's your favorite thing to do online? right now it's tweaking and making updates to my site https://basementcommunity.com