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@otokonoko @beardalaxy @disabled I'm not saying that it's a terrible concept. I'm just saying that it's not particularly important for a simple game studio site that probably isn't going to be censored.

@otokonoko @beardalaxy I'm well aware of static-site generators, but I want to keep things simple for beard. If anything, I could write a basic PHP application for him. If it is done through something like Jekyll, he would have to constantly use the command-line which might be tedious for him. (Note that he is an RPG Maker dev) And you also have to still reupload the modified version of every page even with a static site generator. Having a server-side script for things like a navigation bar and/or footer means that only one file needs to be reuploaded.

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@otokonoko @beardalaxy @disabled I don't think freezepeach matters here because this is about a site for an indie game studio here and not some imageboard, fedi instance, or alt-social media site. And using a VPS for a small indie game site seems a bit overkill to me.

@beardalaxy I think it's better not to have that stuff at all. Blocking scripts is kind of a band-aid solution. Yeah, embeds need those scripts but that's more of the exception rather than the rule. Weebly even uses Google Fonts when the default web fonts are all you ever need.

Didn't you say that you learned HTML in high school? I know that Weebly does have an HTML editor, but from what I can tell, the editors on those sites only edit the body. Why not just use something like NeoCities or Heliohost instead? The only reason I could see why was the blog.

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There are only 39 NPCs left to program for God's Disdain. This one has some wares for you... I wonder what they could be.

(Graphics not finalized)

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Happy Birthday 🥳 🎂 🎈🎁🎉🎊to one of the greatest First Person Shooter (FPS) Games of all time. The 1993 Classic Doom (DOOM).

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@beardalaxy I would also like to add that a lot of people use something like PHP just to be able to include a navigation bar or a footer that they can update without updating every single page of the site. Granted, you can do the same thing with a static-site using JavaScript, but it will run client-side, meaning that it won't appear if the client has JS disabled.

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@djsumdog @PurpCat @kirby @jeff @Moon @coldacid

>Most people have no fucking clue how e-mail or websites work.

It's a bit of an issue. Back then people actually used to have to configure their email app correctly one way or another, now they just use the provider's app

Back then, shitload of personal websites, and even with a simplified panel, it still taught you how shit works, at least, on a basic level. Now nobody does that

@beardalaxy I just don't like how these drag and drop hosts add unnecessary bloat. They add JavaScript from big-tech sites like Google and Facebook and in some cases, disabling them will make the site unviewable.

@beardalaxy You can still host a static-site on HelioHost, but it also provides email hosting, which is nice, imo.

@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.

heliohost.org/

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Man I have eternal regret from using the Benjamin Franklin half dollars my granny gave me on candy

@Hyolobrika @aftermidnight @beardalaxy I'd rather have it not named after me (both username and real name).

Why do far leftists hate space colonization so much? I can't believe this is an actual scholarly article. It's just talking about how space exploration and colonization is "rooted in Western and Christian ideas of expansionism".

sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.futures.2

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After 6-7 years of working with ActivityPub I think I finally have figured out how microblogs and permission-based conversational networks can more peacefully co-exist, instead of the precarious relationship we have today. And it doesn't require the Mastodon folks to acknowledge our existence or lift a finger to inter-operate (history has proven that will never happen). They can keep their primitive whack-a-mole permission model and we will federate with it, just as we do now. But if you're on our side of the fediverse, everything works better and much more safely (just as it does now). The most important bit is that this time around it's 100% generic ActivityStreams with no custom attributes (such as replyTo or isContainedConversation or whatever) and doesn't require any FEPs.

Details to follow. Right now, I need to code.
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