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~tffb wrote (thread):

check minim.blog, he has stuff on an index.txt (type) page that works. gh repo too.

~turboblack wrote (thread):

****** you don't have to make life difficult for yourself. ********

try:

http://w10.host

There are a lot of advantages - you really get an old-school website that will

work in old browsers, via HTTP

you will be able to edit the site from the admin panel (even under DOS).

you can add your domain painlessly

if you are not satisfied with third-level domains

w10.site .w0.am and .narod.ws

your site is located on a subdomain and not in a folder with a tilde

More than 40 templates are already ready for use, many of them are proprietary, work under older browsers, and are backward compatible.

Widgets are available by simply entering a code

blog widget, guest widget, feedback, chat, and so on

~jr wrote (thread):

same, i just use a text file now :) gets the job done

https://jordanreger.com

~starbreaker wrote (thread):

I think I know why your page didn't look right on Android. I think you omitted the following:

This meta tag is irrelevant on desktops and laptops, but it does all kinds of dark magic on smartphones and tablets.

Also you don't need <head> or <body> in HTML5; that stuff's required for older versions of HTML (as well as XHTML, but nobody ever cared about that).

~zampano wrote (thread):

I’m of two minds about this. I’m definitely in favor of simplicity, but that’s not the same in my view as *nothing*. It’s important not to throw out the baby with the bathwater, in other words.

For example, on a 4K screen (like I’m using now), I generally find un-formatted text to render too small. It also adds extra work to follow links that aren’t rendered as such (even if it’s not very much). I say this to say that the more minimal the site, the more of the onus you put on your user/reader to fix things. A small bit of CSS can aid readability significantly, and also respect things like the user’s choice for dark vs. light. I also don’t know how well screen readers do with that level of minimalism, so accessibility can be an issue.

The text size/display issue you mention says to me that you hadn’t quite found the best rule(s) to use, up to and including what units of measurement you were using.

I don’t want to sound hyper-critical or anything; obviously you do you for your own space.

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

~detritus wrote (thread):

I read your several posts about html and I sympathize. I am also using a chromebook, isn't it annoying in chrome, when you start typing an url, it automatically autocomplete to the most specific, convoluted, and always the least useful version of the url that you're typing? If I type foo. it completes to foo.bar.baz/res/1231654124/index.html FUCK!!! What's the point of having an autocomplete if the only thing it's good for is to either delete most of it or keep typing the whole url I actually mean to open!?

Anyway, I use the chromebook to use the shitty parts of the internet, you know, just for piracy and to sometimes to peek into Big sites, which I don't much use anymore anyway.

On my tablet I have, on purpose, removed all google stuff (of course, I know this is somewhat pointless because they can keep profiling me if they want to), and keep the factory version of chrome, which doesn't even let me open cloudflare apps or even recaptcha. I think sites that use cloudflare are just ddosing themselves lmao.

Anyway, I have been thinking of dusting off my old little lappy and just install plan9 (I've talked about this already) and write my own gemini client and web-scraping scripts to use only the sites I like, usually textboards and sites mostly without javascript. For a while I've wanted to use a mostly-plaintext version of the web, and a very plaintext approach to computing in general, the old Unix way (not that I'm a unix fanboy but I am a sort of minimalist because I can't be bothered to be installing all sorts of programs written in all sorts of languages each of which needs it's own tooling and... you get the idea.)

~bartender, is it too early to have some bourbon? I see, bring me some regular black tea, then.