Just Create - Orange Edition

[silvercat17]

You know the drill!

What are you working on? What have you gotten done? Are there any events, challenges, or other cool things you want to share?

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Comments

[illariy]

Nah, I had heard of geocities going under and then neocities entering the scene but it was all so long ago, I thought for sure by now neocities would be history, too. Seems like wordpress is eating the competition. XD

Happy to hear neocities are still around and do allow NSFW content, yay!

[thepasteldyke]

Oh I see! Yeah, considering neocities is ad-free it takes a lot more effort to keep it running, for sure. I donate to them every month to help keeping it up, so I can also upload a lot more and more file formats. I'm enjoying neocities a lot.

That's why they don't have ads, advertisors like to demand no NSFW allowed, so I'm happy they're managing so far.

[illariy]

Ooooh, that is very cool that they are managing to stay afloat without ads, very rare on the internet nowadays! Great that you donate to keep them running and ad-free and get some paid perks. :D

[thepasteldyke]

Yes, I love it, and I'm learning a new skill on top of that, even if it's very rudimentary, can highly recommend. =D

[illariy]

Ooh, that sounds good! It is my dream to one day have my own website but the three main problems are: a) lack of time, b) don't know what to even put on it and c) here in Germany, if you even remotely intend to make money off something, you have to have a full wallet name and valid mailing address in your "Impressum" and that scares me. Some bloggers get away with not having it but they have a bunch of legalese on their website instead and of course always have to be ready to prove that there is no income being made at all. Ugh. There are also companies that offer po boxes without disclosing full name but of course, that is a for-pay service, too.

[thepasteldyke]

Oh damn, that sounds like a pain and stressful. I guess if you just did it for fun on a place where you'd have to go out of the way to make money at all? But yeah I wouldn't wanna doxx myself either. As for content, some people just use neocities as a diary, or pics of cats. Someone even just has a pic of a polygon rat, that's it, nothing else lmao

[illariy]

Late comment is late.

Not gonna lie, the polygon rat sounds amazing! ♥

Yeah, if I wanted to make a purely fannish site with no connection to any fundraising etc. ever, I could even under German rules. But the whole thing just puts me off making any website. Sigh.

It sounds like fun how much variety of content there is on Neocities, though!

How is your site there coming along currently? :-)