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alright if it's game updates you want and don't want to deal with the rest of my bullshit then follow @aftermidnight okay? okay.
@beardalaxy @aftermidnight I still need to a find a name for my one man studio.
Anyway, if you need a website, I could help write an HTML template.
@xianc78 @aftermidnight hey I appreciate that man, thanks! I'll let you know if I need help. When the time comes I think I'll be able to make my own though :) I THINK lol.
@beardalaxy @aftermidnight For the love of God, please don't use drag-and-drop shit like Wix, Weebly, or SquareSpace. Though Wordpress.com might be okay if you want a blog-style site (it's just a host that uses Wordpress as a back-end).
If you want a free-host that actually allows you to use HTML, there is NeoCities and HelioHost. NeoCities only supports static websites (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript), but HelioHost supports server-side scripting, so you can even include things like forums or wikis if you wanted to. It also provides email hosting, so you can have an email address with your site's (sub)-domain. I would recommend HelioHost just for the email feature alone, but it's one of those services that requires you to login every few weeks or they will terminate your account.
@xianc78 I was initially thinking of just going from scratch and making a really dead-simple site, maybe even self-hosting it for the lulz. I saw that porkbun offers a pretty dang good deal where you can pay $4/month for weebly hosting though. Normally it's quite a bit more than that. Is there a good reason beyond "it's a big stupid company" that I shouldn't use weebly?
I'll look into helio though for sure.
@beardalaxy@gameliberty.club @xianc78@gameliberty.club Porkbun and Namesilo are your best bets for domain registration, though the latter has better rates for cryptocurrency and less of a mandate on ID verification. other than that they're both pretty decent. Kyun! is my recommended hosting provider for censorship-resistance and privacy. the VMs on offer are all relatively inexpensive, and they don't restrict any ports so you can even host a mailserver if you want email there (or else a FOSS mail forwarding service to an existing email address). they only accept Monero at present for payments, though, so that's worth noting if you prefer to pay in fiat (though i recommend not doing that given how censorship-happy banks are these days and the massive privacy benefits of Monero). both of the domain registrars mentioned are fairly censorship-resistant, as well. @disabled@shota.house maintains a good article on censorship-resistant hosting. note that Kyun actually doesn't require a username anymore and instead randomly generates an account ID, much like Mullvad VPN. aside from that, i think the article is still up-to-date. most static hosting platforms like Neocities are censorious, so that's good to keep that in mind as well. weebly is a bit "meh", but i feel that way about all site builders, in truth.
@otokonoko @xianc78 @disabled I actually already have a porkbun account so we're gucci
