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 No.82769[Last 50 Posts][Watch Thread]

How do I join?

Post:
* a link to your website, website containing a page linking to the rest of the webring
* a 240x60 banner of your website

(Optional):
* Post a link to your RSS/Atom feed on your site. Communicate with other Lains by responding to articles on their feeds with responses on your feed. If you're both subscribed to each others feeds, you'll see each others responses and can long-form communicate back and forth in a decentralized way.
* Share your tech stack. What tools are you using to build your site, resources for learning how to build sites, guides on self hosting and shared hosting, etc, etc. Help new anons set up their own sites and join the webring.
* Share and start projects. What are you working on or want to work on? Others may want to collaborate.
* Talk to people throughout the net. Some useful protocols and tools for communicating: Email, IRC, XMPP, Matrix, Forums.

More Links:
* Prior thread (14): https://www.lainchan.org/%CE%A9/res/80431.html
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I'm taking the liberty of creating the next thread as the old one reached maximum capacity.
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 No.82774>>82840>>82841>>82910>>83327>>83915

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Hi all, i'm kickstarting an onion webring, feel free to join in over here:

Git repository: git.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd DOT onion/nihilist/darknet-onion-webring

My Webring instance link: uptime.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd DOT onion/
Onion websites depends on peers (like you and me) to run their own lists of onion links for visibility, as search engines can't crawl onion websites like they do on the clearnet. This project is there to list people's lists of onion links so that you don't have to search those links yourself.

The more people join the Onion Webring, the more visibility darknet websites will be able to have over time, just like how it would be on the clearnet while keeping the decentralisation and censorship-resistance intact. Let's make it happen.

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 No.82780

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Changed my blog structure in the past and today my URL scheme (mangling of the kind `sed -E 's#[^a-zA-Z0-9/]+#-#g'` instead of `tr ' ' _`) so a little trick for those of you with links in the wild you don't want to break:

Put
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=en>
  <head>
<title>MY COOL TITLE</title>
<meta http-equiv=refresh content="0; url=NEW_URL.html">
  </head>
</html>
in an OLD_URL.html next to the new one for a static and instant redirection.

Did some pretty cool changes to my blog generator to get an automatic per-tag article list page (and feed) to link back to in each article. Feels pretty good, now; except for these redirections littering my website source, but meh, that's how it is.

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 No.82840>>82843>>82849

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>>82774
Anon, at the risk of coming off rude, I think you should fix the fact that your frontends (safetwitch, gothub, redlib, etc.) all redirect to your blog first before taking on any other projects.

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 No.82841>>82844

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>>82774
>darknet
hey, i remember hearing about that, isn't that the major plot point from the multi-milliondollar hollywood children's movie, wreck-it ralph 2? that's where they sell viruses iirc

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 No.82842>>82872>>83009>>83010>>83013>>83212

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Very proud of the way it looks.
https://geartoward.jp.net/

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 No.82843

>>82840
not them but they dont? Redlib was working fine on Tor.

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 No.82844

>>82841
Link that shows top sekret papers on how Tor is bunk trash off the dollar menu?

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 No.82849

>>82840
those were properly listed on the main website page. (there's a second onion url as those are on a secondary server)

i made sure the main onion url's nginx redirects to the correct domain, should be fine now.

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 No.82851>>82853>>82854>>82855>>82857>>87358

Hey! just thinking of joining and I have a question concerning privacy. I already have a vps with few software and services running but I have always been afraid of getting a domain name as I don't know a proper way to get them anonymously or at least without registering my name with it.

What is the best way to acquire a domain name lainons?

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 No.82853

>>82851
I got my .rs domain with crypto and a fake name from some sketchy domestic retailer. Assuming you don't need *total* anonymity paying in crypto should work.

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 No.82854

>>82851
https://njal.la/domains/
Njal.la registers the domain in your name and leases you its use (the domain is actually yours, but it's a loophole so your contact information doesn't get listed). You should trust Njal.la because it's founded by Peter Sunde, one of the cofounders of The Pirate Bay.

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 No.82855

>>82851
Anonymous domain registration:
https://www.privex.io
https://njal.la/

Privex is supposed to be better: https://crippled.media/free-speech-vps-providers-put-to-the-test

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 No.82857>>82858>>85889

>>82851

See this one on how to get a domain anonymously:
http://blog.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd DOT onion/opsec/anonymousremoteserver/index.html

And see this one on how to get a domain anonymously :
http://blog.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd DOT onion/opsec/anondomain/index.html

You definitely can get both without revealing who you are , even if it's a clearnet website. Just need to make sure that tor remains in between you and the service at all times.

(Btw I think it's a shame that lainchan tries to censor onion links, just because the attack surface is reduced for the server admin, doesn't mean that all onion websites should be demonized)

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 No.82858

>>82857
Sorry typo, one is for acquiring a domain anonymously, and the other is for acquiring a VPS anonymously

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 No.82872

>>82842
very cool site. reminds me of back in the early 2000s

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 No.82875>>83024

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I've changed domains and rebranded my website from https://kinisis.xyz/ to https://arc86.net/

My copy of the webring has also been updated & dead sites have been removed https://arc86.net/content/webring/

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>>82356
>>82357
>>82369
sorry for not answering earlier, I've been busy with life and will be previsibly busy atleast february. If someone wants to step up and organize it it's good! It's meant to be decentralized. Else, if no one steps up, I can during february, same as last year.

As for topics, I haven't thought of any yet. I like Yukinu's suggestion of seasonal topics, I think there's a good range of possibilities there.

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 No.82898>>82899>>82911>>83009>>83024>>83992>>86463

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>>82769 (OP)
Hi lainons, hope you all had a good xmas and new year. Personally I was busy working on my
>Site: https://riverbed.foo
>RSS: https://riverbed.foo/index.xml
Hosted on Codeberg Pages, for now, but any recommendations for a VPS service would be welcome. I know LandChad recommends Vultr. The whole webhosting space seems to be filled with so much bullshit from domain registrars to server providers. Constant sales with scummy package deals that obfuscate the real price or try to lock you in to their service for years at a time. Not to mention the most obnoxious websites. I couldn't be bothered to deal with all that at the moment.

I've had a quick look through some of your sites but now that I have some time I'll be digging deeper. A few have already caught my eye. If you're watching this thread, Miredo I enjoyed reading your posts but your message box wasn't working? so I wasn't able to leave a msg!

I tried to get the webring as up to date as possible, pruned a few dead sites. There's still so much to do but atleast it's in a presentable state and out there. I could fret over the smallest technical details and personal insecurities and never get anything done so the most important thing is to just do it now, move on, and fix it later. Or make something that is so mega epic and awesome that whatever came before it pales into obscurity as an inconsequential rung on the ladder to greatness. I think I'm starting to ramble now.

Oh there's a new thread. Almost posted this in the old one since I had it bookmarked. I thought things were dead for the past three weeks since I didn't realise it had reached the limit.

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 No.82899>>83013

>>82898
Great job on deleting your battle net, nice website!

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 No.82910>>82911>>82916>>86708

>>82774
Stumbled across your site a while back, surprised, but more than pleased to see you here :D
I'd be very excited to read a blog on the way you interpret nihilism, I have a very, very layperson perspective on what nihilism really is so it'd be nice to hear the thoughts of somebody who identifies as one, hope I'm not asking for too much

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 No.82911>>82913>>83013

>>82910
What's your perspective on nihilism if I may ask?


>>82898
I like the website! Very cozy :)

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 No.82913>>82917>>83268>>86817

>>82911
Well, I got the barebones understanding of it that "nothing matters in the end" I assume that lots of nihilists happen to be individualists and I also believe that they have their roots in hedonism, hence I don't get why would a nihilist bother putting all of this effort into something that explains these topics, let alone paying people to do them.

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 No.82916

>>82910
I know i'll be percieved as a weird one for claiming that nihilism can be used for mental health & self-improvement, but that's my everyday.

I laid out the reasoning here:
http://blog.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd DOT onion/productivity/nihilism/index.html

TLDR: mental health by actively trying to remove the poison that's within your mind, so that only what truly matters remains in the end, can be linked to minimalism in a way.

BTW i'm working on automating the onion webring as much as i can with a master python script, to try and avoid the manual work that comes with maintaining a webring as much as possible, will post in here once i manage to finish it. http://git.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd DOT onion/nihilist/darknet-onion-webring/src/branch/main/scripts/darknet_exploration.py

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 No.82917>>82918

>>82913

The way I see Nihilism is as a blank canvas, which you can fill in however you want, however, the canvas will be destroyed one day, but at least you enjoyed painting it. Life is what you make of it, the meaning is what you give to it yourself, even though the inevitable will happen some day. I think it gives you a certain feeling of freedom and responsibility; even though life is meaningless, there is no ultimate goal, you are free to write your own story.

I am however not a nihilist though, so I might be not completely correct about what nihilism is.
I assume people perceive it in different ways as well.

Anyways, if you want to learn more about nihilism, and philosophy in general, I really recommend a youtuber by the name "Sisyphus55" (https://www.youtube.com/@Sisyphus55).
The thumbnails look very simplistic, often being stick-figures, but his content is amazing and really offers understandable information about all types of philosophers and their philosophy.

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 No.82918>>82920

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>>82917
>The way I see Nihilism is as a blank canvas, which you can fill in however you want, however, the canvas will be destroyed one day
But can you even reach nihilism as a state? No, for purely biological reasons, hedonism is what "nihilism" truly is (arguably doesn't sound as good). Same way that anarchism can't exist beyond the realm of delusional brains, it'll be instantly replaced by tribalism if it ever gets to exist.

Personally, I think that word should cease to be used by intelligent people who want to talk about the process of discarding what was taught to rebuild from clean foundations. Because it already has a proper name: "cartesian doubt".

"Might is Right" is a fantastic short read for that purpose. Unless you're too naïve to be deprogrammed, of course.

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 No.82920>>82921

>>82918

I don't fully understand (I don't know all too much about philosophy), but why would someone not be able to reach nihilism as a state?

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 No.82921>>82930

>>82920
Your body (thus you) implicitly values pleasure and devalues pain. Base hedonism (not the greek version) is the base state of the animal kingdom, no way to reach a "nothing has value".

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 No.82928

Oh look, it's an other episodes of schizos who are stuck in their head assuming the world is just like how they are

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 No.82929>>82930>>82931>>82933>>83009>>83013>>83024

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Just want to create a image wall with retro feeling images and I want to expand it with images from its visitors but can't find a better way to get images except google forms do you have any idea lainons

>Link: https://uranus.nekoweb.org/

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 No.82930

>>82921
Ah I see, that kinda makes sense yeah :)
Thanks for explaining it to me!

>>82929
Cool website! When I update mine, I'll add you to my list :)

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 No.82931>>82932

>>82929
Youll have to use an external service since nekoweb is a static host. Alternatively, you can just ask people to email you the images and put them up manually

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 No.82932

>>82931
Fair enough I added an email to the site. What a shame I didn't add at first.

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 No.82933>>82935

>>82929
You better put some system in place to create thumbnails or the page will get slow, very fast

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 No.82935>>82936

>>82933
Yeah should use loading="lazy" + thumbnailing combo I think. Will add in future

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 No.82936>>82940

>>82935
What are you generating your site with? You could write a simple image render template that could compress the images as well. I would recommend adding lazy loading, compressed thumbnails and hyperlinking to the uncompressed images.

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 No.82940>>82957

>>82936
I don't use any of them. Do you have any recommendations?

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 No.82957>>82966

>>82940
Hugo would probably be the easiest!
https://gohugo.io/

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 No.82966

>>82957
Thanks for your recommendation I made the system more automatic and added a thumbnailing system

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 No.82978>>82983>>83009

hi i have an idea. software that updates the webring on all member sites. feed it an initial list of member domains, it'll send update requests when you update your copy, and will also receive such from others. but this is only for those who rent a vps.
is there something alike already?

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 No.82983>>82994

>>82978
Sounds easy to hijack. And removes a bit if autonomy. Some sites have thier own custom update scripts (pull from x, y and z then aggregate). you should just write your own.

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 No.82991

>>82769 (OP)

I love you webring-lainanons.

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 No.82994

>>82983
i didn't elaborate. well
1. update requests can only be received from existing members' domains (correlate IPs and dns records)
2. do what you want with updates, queue them, check, don't add sites you don't like
3. a new member can only show up when "approved" by several others (you decide how many), same for removal
>easy to hijack and removes a bit of autonomy
why? how?
>you should just write your own
maybe

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 No.83009>>83013

>>82978
Why bother with this level of complexity? Just make a mailing list or something, email the changes through once a month. Having an email address is probably the one thing all of the sites on the ring actually have in common.

I don't really see what's wrong with just checking the thread though, if people don't want to that often or even at all that's fine. A decentralised ring is always going to be weakly consistent.

>>82929
Big banner on the page with an email, filter to funnel relevant mails into one folder, hand curate.

Email is pretty good.

>>82898
Very nice site, will add on next refresh.
I'm using Vultr and it's fine, they email you once a month with the bill and other than that leave you alone, the price is reasonable and their support team is responsive.

Note that they will not let you run SMTP, despite what their support page says, presumably if you're a bigger customer they're more flexible but I was flatly told no when I requested it. They also accept crypto, but not XMR.

>>82842
Your custom mouse cursor shows up on my desktop after waking from sleep for some reason. Pretty nice site.

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 No.83010

>>82842
Also meant to mention that the pointer part of your cursor doesn't display when hovering over links embedded in images, such as the banners at the bottom of the page

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 No.83012>>83013

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>>82769 (OP)
Haaaaiii :333 !!!! (That is how I introduce myself always).

Made this little website which I'll be expanding as time moves.
>Site: https://midnightenjoyer.neocities.org/
>Webring: https://midnightenjoyer.neocities.org/ring

It looks kinda ugly, but that is because I don't have a visual identity at the moment. I've been busy at my job, so I can't work too much on this project. Hope yall like it and find it cozy!!!!!!

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 No.83013

>>82899
>>82911
Thanks :-)

>>82929
Cool website, though I'm not sure I fully get what makes an image retro-inspired. But I'm an oaf.

>>83009
Thanks for the reply. I'll probably just go with Vultr then. I can always switch later.
Gonna sitck with Codeberg Pages for now and get a VPS when I start thinking about hosting other stuff like a Gemini capsule. I like the idea of hosting my poetry in a capsule.

>>82842
I like the look of the site. Could maybe use a next/previous button on the layer logs so you don't have to go back to the home page everytime.

>>83012
Woah. Smacked across the face with that energy like a wintry gust. I think I liked it. If you see a stranger, follow him.

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>>82769 (OP)
hopefully this project will grow, seems like a great way to give "humanity" back to hollow npcs

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 No.83016

>>83014
I heartily concur with the first part, but I don't think you'll give humanity back to anyone by dehumanising them as npcs. You'll only become hollow yourself in the process.

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 No.83024>>83026>>83028>>83034>>87352

Added new sites with a minimum of content/purpose and updated others.
https://1lsh32.nl/, you're already dead?

Speaking about lainring data mangling, I just converted mine to s-expr (it's a plist type -> list of sites) with sections to make it easier for page generation: https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/website/tree/master/item/src/links/webrings/lainring.spindata
>>82875
Theme is looking good, you should also link to your blog RSS on the blog page itself. Good luck on finding the energy to make new content!
>>82898
Looking nice and pretty interesting blog. Missing a feed, sadly (unless I missed it?).
>>82929
I very much like the look of it, especially the thumbnails tilting on hover. Such a late 90s/y2k touch! Any reason why your webring is that small?

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 No.83026>>83037

>>83024
>missing a feed
It's tucked away in the contact page. Maybe I'll put an icon in the footer or something.

Been enjoying your site also btw. Might ramble a bit about dotfiles if I'm out of ideas for the blog but writing about tech stuff feels kind of unnatural to me and it ends up reading like a middle schooler's class presentation.

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 No.83028>>83030

>>83024
Actually It's a combination of laziness and lack of a updated webring. Surely I will add all active webring members in near future.
Also I think someone should host all active webring members in a json or csv. And, it would be nice if there's a banners package in a zip because people shouldn't have to bother with wget

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 No.83030>>83031

>>83028
http://sizeof.cat/post/lainring/#developers

http://sizeof.cat/post/lainring/data/lainring.json
http://sizeof.cat/post/lainring/files/banner-img.zip

sizeof has a json (and an xml) but it's not updated, any reason you stopped updating it (if you're still around)?

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 No.83031

>>83030
There is a lainanon in the last threat that had a relative updated list.

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 No.83034

>>83024
right, sorry, I've just been dealing with some backend stuff and also the thought that hosting it isn't really worth it lol. will see what I can do.

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 No.83037>>83040

>>83026
Ok, updated my Hugo setup to properly generate a reference to the feed in the HTML's <head>, that should do for now. Still need to figure out where and how to add a button on the actual pages.

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 No.83040

>>83037
You could just stick the link in your footer partial as text, no need for an actual icon if you don't want to change your template to accommodate one.

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 No.83212>>83254

>>82842
Weird that lain anons replied as if this was a new site. It was already on my copy

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 No.83254

>>83212
prob cuz it changed alot. The site has gone through a ton fuarrrk of changes

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 No.83268

>>82913
His idea of nihilism is a bit like ascesticism mixed with existentialism/will to power

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 No.83300

hey :)

I just wanted to let yall know that I changed my domain name from https://myrdin.is-a.dev to https://myrdin.cx

Feel free to update accordingly! :))

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 No.83327>>83330

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>>82774
Hi all, i'm releasing darknet lantern to version 1.0.0 now that i finished the protections from malicious csv inputs, feel free to run your own instance and join the onion webring:

blogpost on why this project is important in the tor ecosystem: http://blog.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd DOT onion/opsec/darknetexploration/index.html

blogpost on how to setup your own instance step-by-step: http://blog.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd DOT onion/opsec/darknetlantern/index.html

git repo: http://git.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd DOT onion/nihilist/darknet-lantern

my instance: lantern.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd DOT onion

hit me up on Simplex or in this thread if you want to join the webring aswell :)

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 No.83330>>83331

>>83327
Thank you for doing this, this is very important and cool.

How most people get to the darknet is clearnet sites that say "here are some onion links" and while this is censorship-prone and all that it is one way to get the link to interested visitors.

It might be possible to get sites like wikipedia to host links to your link collections. I think they have done things like that before for darknet markets. Maybe they say this is to enable researchers and ensure consistency of the record?

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 No.83331

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>>83329
added, thx

if there are other onion links that you know of, let me know btw, i'll list them

>>83330
webring-wise what i'm trying to solve aswell is twofold actually:
1) make it easy to get all webring participants at once
2) keep track of the uptimes to remove the inactive websites

when the webring gets big enough you have to automate this because otherwise the amount manual work just keeps on multiplying. (speaking from experience, many websites in the current webring are no longer active and should just automatically get removed)

i'll try to make an updated dynamically-displayed php page for lainchan webring, with the banners next

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 No.83354>>83438

I have migrated from my clearnet domain (1lsh32.nl) to an onion-only domain. Site will be under construction for a while, so the webring won't be available. Feel free to remove me until I've re-added it.

The new onion link: http://jd4ayaupurblsekrlwmqwaid64xpuh4k3qkyiiido3svie6d5hdvrvad.onion/

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 No.83413>>83466

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Hi all,

We launched:
https://projectsteki.neocities.org/

We are two anons hosting some of our written content there, mainly a self-published sci-fi project on the Immaterial Contest page. If anything pelase feel free to send a few words our way, criticism, suggestions, or just any other coherent (or not) ramblings if you feel like writting to anyone. Literary criticism, questions about the hosted project is doubly welcomed.

As for the look of the page, it is very Tsuki themed. We needed an early draft to sit on something easy to build and there is still a lot to add theme-wise, drawn even more by the hosted literature.

We plan on updating the page often, with the webring coming up next and one day soon self-hosting.

Fell free to scour us out!

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 No.83430>>83434

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Just lost some files including the webring feeds. Back again to ask a familiar question...
Who here has the most up to date rss/opml collection ?

https://0x19.org/lainring from a couple of threads ago hasnt been updated in half a year, sizeofcat also doesnt update anymore, and people have been posting feeds here ever since.

There used to be a github with the site links.
If no one else has a consistently updated list I think I might make one, maybe on git again.

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 No.83434>>83435>>83961

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Hi Lains, new site here:
http://ebinetwarez.club
(ring at http://ebinetwarez.club/lainring/lainring.html)
Right now, there's not much here, but I'm gonna use it as a blog, and hopefully one day run some privacy respecting frontends/services (redlib, invidious, etc). When I get a chance, I'll also put a bunch of my recipes on there as well.


>>83430
If you do make an updated list, please let me know. Right now, I'm just using 0x19's list.

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 No.83435>>83436

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>>83434
"https://mayvaneday.org/feed.xml" hasn't existed in at least a year.

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 No.83436

>>83435
Noted and fixed. I'll go through and update the rest of my ring while i'm at it. Thanks for pointing that out.

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 No.83438>>83439

and done.
devshm, is your onion link in >>83354 still correct? your site doesn't resolve anymore...

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 No.83439>>83460

>>83438
Yeah it's correct, I just took the webserver down. Hosting a page that just said "WIP" felt a bit dirty, so I just took down everything. Will hopefully probably have something up and running in a month or so.

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 No.83460

>>83439
right, I'll update that in my ring as well

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 No.83466>>83467

>>83413
The website design is very cute, for example how the cannon moves up when scrolling.
Good job anon.

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 No.83467

>>83466
Thank you for the kind words! Last page I made was the deurist one (2 years ago?) but I scraped that one since I didn't really like its design.

I am thinking that the content is too thinly stretched. I want to have it a bit more bundled. Perhaps on the left, have it as a bastion of cannon standing against nothing on the right of the page. Not sure yet.

I will try to post 2 maybe even 3 chapters this weekend there and I need to get some time to scour more of the webpages here. I see some I remember but there are a lot of new people on the webring.

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 No.83472>>83476>>83483>>83518>>87352

OK. That took hours, but I went through almost every single thread adding each url, tor, i2p, banner, rss to a csv file.
There were around 223 URLs. I only looked for "here's my site" posts, so if someones link was plaintext in the middle of a huge post, I probably missed it.
I didn't go through thread#4 yet because only yukinu has an archive and the links & imgs were plain text, so tedious to add.

For the rest, most banners ended up being thumbnails (200x50, not 240x60), because wayback didn't capture them, but I saved the thumbs anyway.
(The active sites' banners will live on through various webring pages)
There are definitely a bunch missing too. Even from sites which are still active.

Early on in the threads there was a discussion about how banners should have been standardized like site.com/banner.png.
I think it was a good suggestion, and wish the same for rss. I'm missing a lot of full size banners,gifs, and rss feeds, and even when you know they exist, it's not easy to find them.

After manually testing all the links, there were some redirects and a lot of dead links...
A few were still alive but were blank pages, 404, or formal posts stating they were ditching this alias/site.
Now it's down to ~163 definitely alive sites.

>RSS
I got so confused and disappointed because I had 79 rss feeds in my csv, yet when I added them, I'd only get around 45 (then 25 after dead links.)
BUT they weren't being added because those feeds were already in my rss client, from various other collections.
After merging them I have 68 now.
(A couple are "broken" but the site isn't dead. I left those in the list).
I'm 100% sure this is missing some. I found a few extra ones by chance while tidying up the csv.


I thought this would be a huge waste of time, but it was a fun little journey.
It was sad to see the huge graveyard of old urls. Many free subdomains, later updating to a real domain. Then never getting renewed.
Even from people who were so active in the early threads.
Neocities is pretty good for that reason. Unless they delete their content intentionally, it remains archived.

Uploaded here if anyone wants it
https://github.com/venvx/lainchan-webring
The csv/json include deadlinks, thumbnails and all that. But the OPML has only the working* feeds.

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 No.83476

>>83472
Well, good job Anon! I must remind that I also have some machine readable data (s-expr) here: https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/website/tree/master/item/src/links/webrings/lainring.spindata
Missing the latest entries (because I don't add empty websites) but sorted in few categories.

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 No.83483

>>83472
Thank you for the work, lainon, but I have a few minor nitpicks: "mayvaneday.art" now redirects to "mayvane.day", and it doesn't have an RSS feed (it seems you put libertywitch's RSS feed URL in the wrong spot in your CSV).

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 No.83509>>83510>>83667>>83673

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I used to lurk here around a year back. browsed sites but never joined the webring despite running a few sites. now I am: https://mouseling.net/
my webring page is simply a part of my links page: https://mouseling.net/link.html
updating is so much easier ever since i learned how to use Jekyll+push my site from the console instead of relying on uploading via WebDAV not long ago so maybe I can actually do something with my site this time around. much love! ^_^

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 No.83510>>83567

>>83509
I just want to say: Your site is awesome! It's so minimalistic, but at the same time it has a unique aesthetic that reminds me of the old web (before corporate design took over creativity). It really made my night to see a site made with so much love.

I wish you much success with your future projects!

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 No.83518

>>83472
God's work, anon. I salute your effort.

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 No.83564>>83565>>83567>>83580>>83674

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My new website is up, i was formerly known as vim user so if anyone has that old banner and link up you can remove it, ill update the webring with everyone i see in this tread on my new website :P

https://schizopup.dev

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 No.83565>>83574

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>>83564
schizopup again, forget the banner sent above, i made a better one just now

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 No.83567

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>>83510
Thank you so mach!! My website is a really fun way to express myself ^_^ unfortunately this means i have to hold back from changing the layout every couple of weeks.
>>83564
Very cute webby, hoping to see more meat on it soon. just want to note that one page says you're 19 and the other says you're 18

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 No.83574>>83579>>83961

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Already dead, ebinetwarez.club ? This is why I wait before adding stuff to my webring.
>>83565
>blog is empty without JS

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 No.83579

>>83574
yup. looks like my whole vps provider dissapeared, and I don't have the money to get a new one right now. Hopefully I'll be able to bring it back up in a few months....

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 No.83580

>>83564
this is a meme surely

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 No.83581>>85552>>87088>>88217

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https://cult.ist

still up and thriving. updating webring links again.
if I'm missing on other people's list, please add me.

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 No.83583>>83584>>83716

STEKI anon here. Anyone else having trouble seeing the background images with Firefox on https://projectsteki.neocities.org/ ?

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 No.83584>>83586

>>83583
its fine for me but scale your images down or at least compress them, they load extremely slow

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 No.83586

>>83584
I thought about it a bit. Basically my issue is that the images are too blurry on a large screen and the fact that most of them are from a 90s anime with no HD remaster or whatever, makes them look bad at this size.

My thought was to change the layout of the pages so that I can limit how much I present and thus allow the images to be resized.

Or. compress them by reducing the colors of the images, but then lose the grimmy, concrete and faded aesthetic.

Maybe I will do both.

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 No.83588>>83593

cannon could be avif @ 9kb with png fallback
backgrounds could be jpeg @ 70kb or avif @ 20kb
they look pretty much the same on https://squoosh.app/

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 No.83593

>>83588
Thanks a lot anon. I didn't know I could compress them with that minimal quality loss. Should be loading much faster now and thanks once again!

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 No.83629

speaking of image compression, i use a ton of .gifs for the webring wall and i was wondering how to reduce size

i tried different formats e.g. .apng, animated webp, etc

the best seemed to be vp9 .webm, so i'd have like `<video src="video.webm" autoplay loop muted></video>` or something, codec seemed to be widely available at least according to caniuse.com or whatevs

i always try to only use widely compatible formats since people use different browsers and configurations

open to opinions / tips on how to make my site even more optimized Present Day, Present Time! AHAHAHAHAHA!

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 No.83631

>>82769 (OP)

Wasn't there another thread that talked about these new imaging standard? huh... Oh well.

I wouldn't go crazy with using HTML5 video src commands. As some browsers get weird about that, with encapsulating a video player around the image instead of simply presenting a reader the image. There are better ways.

If you own your own VPS or self-host your life got very easy because you can run a cron job to autoconvert your images to the newer graphical formats (like animated GIFs i've had excellent luck with ffmpeg if you can handle the syntax hell) . Then, map image suffixes in the conf.d file in nginx to search for image.gif.avif / image.gif.webp / image.gif.jxl. If the browser says what it will support that is. If the browser is silent, then they're served traditional files.

The method above eats disk space. But disk space isn't as valuable of a resource as bandwidth. On top of this, you still have the original image preserved in case image libraries improve (as these are newer image standards, security issues and optimization hasn't been completely hashed out). You can re-run compression again.

Apng is really neat as it's the first format I found for animated transparancies on a website. And it converts the best with using a 24-bit palette. However, not every browser plays nice with APNG in respects that often times it loads a single frame and stops. Chances are, if they support APNG they also support the newer standards too. Conversion helps here as well.

Best of luck to your compression.

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 No.83667>>83712

>>83509
lol hi maus
t. roy
>>82769 (OP)
joining the ring once i buy a domain.
looking to join the onion rings as well.

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 No.83673>>83674

>>83509
glad to be on the same altchan as freaks like this
https://mouseling.net/outfits/

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 No.83674

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>>83673
>imageboard dedicated to some weird anime has a weird community
Surely didn't expect that
I found >>83564 quite funny too, weird how even 4chan has more normal-looking people
We really are the lowest hanging fruit

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 No.83686>>83694

>>83678
I'm pretty normal too. Benchpressing, mountaineering and playing an instrument is all I got going on right now.

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 No.83688>>83693>>83694

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>>83678
Feels strange to be called "normal", but I guess this speaks about Lainchan's weirdo baseline more than me, heh. Weirdest thing about me is the usual "high functioning autist" stuff and being a wizard.

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 No.83692>>83694

everyone is someone else's normal person

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 No.83693>>83694

>>83678
>>83688
>Godflesh listener
>Rotting Christ listener
>common lisp programmer
Wouldn't say that he's normal but he definitely has a more diverse and cultivated personality than the people that he's being compared with

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 No.83694>>83695>>83711

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>>83686
>>83688
>>83689
>>83692
>>83693
When I took this test I got "failed normal person", like nor a chad nor a freak, I assume that's what you guys are too based on the test
https://dulm.blue/normal person

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 No.83695>>83711

>>83694
https://dulm.blue/nor mie
Thanks lainchoon

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 No.83701

what the fuarrrk happened to lainchan

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 No.83711>>83715

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>>83694
>>83695
>>83698
>>83703
Please stop with this bad meme, the questions are pure crap you only want to answer with "it really depends" and the results are slop not even fit for 4chan.

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 No.83712

>>83667
>onion rings

no need to buy a domain if you wish to join the lantern webring btw, onion domains are free to generate and you own them forever

http://blog.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd DOT onion/opsec/torwebsite/index.html

^ tutorial on how to do that btw

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 No.83714>>83729

I'm making my website for real this time i hope next week i post it

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 No.83715

>>83711
>the results
>the slop
Yeah man we are just killing some time here with the boys, no need to be a downer.

Anyways, I just got my raspberry, gonna try and dig into self-hosting.

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 No.83716

>>83583
on dillo it looks like a plain text page, i thought it was nice tho.
cool writings btw

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 No.83729>>83730

>>83714
I've made half a dozen since this webring started, but don't have any unique insights and don't feel like being owned by nerds for that reason

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 No.83730

>>83729
Why did you make so many websites

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 No.83746>>83747>>84173

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Hello lainons! I have been working on my website/blog for quite some time now, since august last year as a personal project of sorts, without any goal set or project. Made with Hugo.

Website is only available in portuguese.
>Site: https://ytupiara.neocities.org/
>RSS: https://ytupiara.neocities.org/index.xml

My lainring page has some missing banners because I'm using 0x19's template.
>Lainring: https://ytupiara.neocities.org/lainring/

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 No.83747

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>>83746
Looks comfy. Purple is pretty underated as a color, I like the central layout.

I updated https://projectsteki.neocities.org/ with a new banner. since the old one seemed very kenophobic and hard to look at. Quite pleased with the new chapters. Next update I will probably revamp a lot of things since the site is really not easy to navigate.

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 No.83824

Does the webring itself have a banner?

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 No.83825>>83855>>88506

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https://orkastle.neocities.org/

A semi-official info page about a game in the style of a JRPG that's currently in development. The developer is going as far as writing it in Japanese, then translating it into English. It has a retro, horror theme and gameplay heavily inspired by the first generation of Pokemon.

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 No.83827

>>83826
Show us your game. Or your drawings. Or anything you've made really.

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 No.83855

>>83825
looks cool, will bookmark it

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 No.83901>>83903

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Just a little tip for people who like to save bandwidth: gif banners can be optimized via `magick convert -layers optimize -fuzz 2%` (perceptually lossless, really).

Saved me a few MBs for the whole Lainring page. I should see if lossless animated Webp or APNG are worth it, while waiting for JXL support everywhere.

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 No.83903

>>83901
Animated WebP is trash, but APNG can often reduce file sizes from GIF to half for the same lossless animation.

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 No.83915

>>82774
i love your site. you're doing the lords work

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 No.83961

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>>83574
>>83434
alright, apparently some corrupt national policemen sabotaged my VPS providers servers, but https:/ebinetwarez.club is back now. I'm about to put another blog post up as well...

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 No.83992>>84008

>>82898
Finally got out of this flu and got some coffee in my system.

Caravan seems promising. The vagueness plays into the unordered structure, though I believe it would be much better flowing (in that unordered structure) if you were to separate the point of the murder from the beginning. Just when I wonder why it shifts to the entry of the mc at the world, it explains who mr Denim is, I like that a lot, but it stills needs a small structural correction I think. Maybe a simple space there, some ***'s to separate the part before "It had been six years... I was alone."

It also needs to be compacted in many places, so you don't get stuck in that stop-n-go flow.

I mean, the personal commentary is heavy with cynicism and I don't like it. Sure, it makes the mc more relatable but at the same time is this cynicism tied to the ugliness of the world, the creeping hints of the house, the emptyness? Perhaps you are going for a lighthearted mc doing horrible things in a horrible world. That is nice, but I think when the mc is pressed you have to keep this going and to distinguish what actually presses the mc. The landlord obviously gets to the character's mindset, but the room doesn't, or the lack of others. That implies agoraphobia and it makes me want to see this manifest later on.

Overall it is memorable at times. This is really really good. A day later I still recall the delapidated house, the sticky floorboards and a vague idea of the world outside. Though I have a feeling we (the readers) might not return to this setting since the character sinks to the floor.

Few questions. What's you writting rate on the Caravan project? How much do you write a day? Also, why the past tense? Are you willing to play around with grammatical tenses or is it all going to be first-person narration with past tense? (That showcases dreamy sequences, structure, worldbuilding. Spot on if that is what you're doing, but keep in mind to play with grammar if you want extra depth).

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 No.84001>>84003>>84006>>84033

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I am still here https://aleph-0.neocities.org/
Webring: https://aleph-0.neocities.org/misc/lainchan_webring
I think my site is lacking in content, but I can't think of things to add. All my most interesting programming projects are connected to my IRL identity so I don't want to put them on the site. I sometimes consider bringing back the blog and opinion-focused pages, but I keep deciding against it because that stuff was cringe.

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 No.84003>>84004

>>84001
>Restive plaggona
Some god tier taste I see in your music section. I saw him in Corfu many years back.

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 No.84004

>>84003
Thanks man, it's always nice to encounter someone whose taste overlaps with mine.
I hope that I can go to some of my favourite artists' live shows in the future. Right now I don't have the money.

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 No.84006>>84033

>>84001
Bring back the monster energy drinks tier-list

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 No.84008

>>83992
>some ***'s to separate the part before
Re-reading it I agree with you on that.
>What’s your writing rate
Unfortunately nonexistent right now. Gotta dust off those drafts sooner rather than later. And not just Caravan but everything else as well. After the prologue I focused on getting the site up and running, then I churned out some blogposts while planning the story further and I had nice slow and steady routine going but then soykaf hit the fan big time and now everything’s been out of joint for idk how long.
>Agoraphobia
Not quite but otherwise you’re pretty much correct and it will come up again at later point. Oh, and we will return to the setting atleast twice. I don’t want to jinx my plans by talking about them too much.
>personal commentary heavy with cynicism
The world’s ugliness initially causes narrow-minded melancholy which causes feeling powerless and inability to grasp the wider world which makes it uglier, and the tension that is this unfulfillable yet pursued desire is manifested as cynicism. Ngl, I didn’t give it much thought I was just projecting myself at the time.

I’m going to try to answer some questions and address some things regarding my intentions.

I don’t know if you took note of this but the mc never actually talks out loud and doesn’t interact with the world verbally. She doesn’t (in my plan for the continuation) actually realise it until at a later point when she meets another character who confronts her about it and she snaps out of it (leading into some surreal aspects of the world realigning as everything is mostly told from her distorted subjective pov).
The planned climax of the story is the mc’s conciousness and memories merging with this other character who will transcend the world the story is set in and this other character goes to the “real” world and starts writing The Caravan based on the memories of the mc that are now in their head as they have become one person. Line between character(s) and author is blurred and the story is writing itself in realtime. Basically it’s nothing more than a hodgepodge of dreamy sequences and exercises in worldbuilding that I’m trying to string together into something coherent. That is why I will mostly write first-person narration in past tense because it is a sort of fictional autobiography. The story exists because it is on a website but the website exists because of the story. Maybe I’ve bitten off more than I can chew but then I will spit out what I can’t swallow and keep eating because I am hungry.

Really appreciate the comments and critique. Glad to hear someone has not only bothered to read my scribblings but enjoyed them too. I am not doing so well.

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 No.84033

>>84001
>>84006
wait, is that where i saw the monster energy drink tierlist? i have been trying to find that again for a while now!

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 No.84173>>84214

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>>83746

I have updated my site and changed its name from 'Caminho da Cachoeira' (Pathway to the Waterfall) to simply 'Hiraeth'. Some bastard had already taken the name so I put 'xyz' at the end of it.

Old domain: https://ytupiara.neocities.org
New domain: https://hiraethxyz.neocities.org

Here is the new banner...

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 No.84214>>84226

>>84173

Hey, awesome new domain!
Just wanted to let you know that your RSS feed isn't working atm, I think there is a minor spelling mistake in the url. Either way, awesome website! :))

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 No.84226

>>84214
Yeah you're right, it was a mispelling on the 'baseURL' on my Hugo config, and alonside the RSS, the favicon along with all other imgs were broken. I updated it and now it seens to work fine now.

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 No.84280>>84281>>84291

Hello! I’m excited to share that I’ve fully revamped my website.
The process of handcoding my previous site (https://old.myrdin.cx) was often time-consuming and a bit tedious, so I opted to transition to a Static Site Generator (Quartz) that works with Obsidian.

If everything went smoothly, I’ve also updated the webring!

You can check out the new website at https://myrdin.cx/ and take a look at the webring here: https://myrdin.cx/projects/Lainring.

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 No.84281>>84290

>>84280
I really like the graph to navigate your site. I'll read some of your stuff later, I was trying to understand that page you had on Eldiad and I got lost, but it nevertheless seemed like an interesting project even if discontinued.

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 No.84290

>>84281

Oh yeah, Eldiad is like a really old project of mine. It was a constructed language (conlang) but I never ended up finishing it. I would do a lot of stuff differently now if I ever make a conlang again :)

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 No.84291>>84293

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>>84280
Sadly, navigation seems to require JS, it'd have a static fallback for the left panel, in an ideal world. Oh well, at least you got a feed!
Hope you'll post more, I've read your bear article and it was quite nice.

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 No.84293>>84297>>84317

>>84291
I'm really new to the concept of this SSG and SSGs in general, I'll try to ask around if there is a way to work around this issue! :)

Thank you so much btw, I'll try to make some more articles in the future.

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 No.84297

>>84293
I might give other SSGs a try as well, Im just trying to figure things out atm :)


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 No.84319>>84336>>84357

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Hi Everyone, got my site back online and updated the webring.
>Site: https://grafo.zone
>RSS: https://grafo.zone/index.xml

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 No.84336>>84355

>>84319
I really like the way your homepage looks :)
I was wondering if your website is fully handcoded? Either way, I added you to my list! :)

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 No.84355

>>84336
Thanks! I made the site with Hugo and the music section with Faircamp so it's not fully handcoded

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 No.84357>>84362

Lots of small updates on STEKI. Not sure if I should change the font for the big chapters, most probably should as the letters are kinda tall? A great big thank you to people who gave me feedback, I should be able to add 2 more chapters before this week ends. The initial page looks leagues better than it used to I think.

>>84319
I really like the bright orange and deep brown to black. The content is well arranged and I think I re-added you to my webring? Anyways what did you use to make your site's banner gif?

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 No.84362

>>84357
Thanks! I used blender for all the site logos

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 No.84368>>84376>>84406>>85729

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Used to be a part of this webring with the site flammableduck.xyz, which no longer exists unfortunately. I have a new site up https://www.deletia.digital, and I've actually gotten some stuff on it this time (lmao). The webring is at https://www.deletia.digital/cyberspace/lainchan-webring.html

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 No.84376>>84378

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>>84368
Love the picture on the homepage with the server, is that real photo?

Also cute art.

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 No.84378

>>84376
> is that real photo?
yeup

> cute art
tyy :)

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 No.84388>>84409

I recover https://cumbia.neocities.org i feel very nostalgic to see it on many of your sites yet and on agoraroad too, it was just a very simple site i made on the covid19 times, life is just hard and i really want to go on time when i was creating that site and give my past self a hug for all the pain I will go through

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 No.84405>>84407>>85460

over at https://articexploit.xyz:8443/ring/ theres an archive of every previous webring thread btw

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 No.84406

>>84368
cool website, i stumbled upon it for your lainring page and the digital art is nice!

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 No.84407>>84408

>>84405
Oh wow. I really joined this 5 years ago on the second ever thread with deurist... its been a while, I really shouldn't have let this go back then.

Well... more motive to keep going on STEKI and not give up on it.

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 No.84408>>84409

>>84407
If it makes you feel any better I've been lurking since the first thread, hoping to eventually put something up but never doing so

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 No.84409

>>84408
It actually does oddly enough, I used to feel really bad when 1-2 months would pass without updating the site, or actually having any cool design I liked, but now that I actually dont care and I am way more active. The best time to join the webring is probably yesterday, but the next best time to join is surely now.

>>84388
Randomly enough I was trying to find tabs for Cumbia Sobre El Mar to play, will scour a bit more the attached sites, find some more South American music.

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 No.84410>>84411

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i am currently working on a little blog (linux, obscure tech stuff mainly). there are tons of cool sites in the lainchan webring so i'm thinking of joining. i just have a quick question about the etiquette:
can i pick and choose which sites i link to or am i expected to make an effort to link to all pages on the webring? apologies if this question is super rude, i'm not familiar with what's expected.

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 No.84411

>>84410
Just do what you want. Just don't expect sites you don't link to to link back, IMO.

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 No.84423>>84426>>84435>>84451>>85150>>85170>>85249

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what i find most interesting on the webring are blogs that i can add to my rss reader. but it can be hard to discover them. last night i threw together a little aggregator which could help with that. the idea is to give a quick overview over which sites have an active blog and also show which sites are online in general. currently it parses the premade html from https://articexploit.xyz/ring/ but it's modular and could support various input formats. the tool could be run from a cronjob e.g. once per day / week so it isn't aggressive on the sites. the end result is a static page.

refinement:
- store previous online states so that a "last online at ..." can be displayed instead of just the state during the last crawl
- more robust feed detection (currently it checks for a feed link on the hompage, then checks various common URLs, then checks if a /sitemap.xml exists and if it contains an entry that looks like a feed; stopping once a feed is discovered or if all options were tried)
- tagging of sites maybe (e.g. linux, photography, etc.; would require maintenance)
- allow combining input lists from various sources

issues:
- only about a 33% of sites offer their articles using a feed; no easy way to get data websites without one
- some sites list all posts in their feed, some only the last x amount of posts; making that stat inaccurate
- not all sites contain the full article text inside the feed; might scrap that and the prev stat

is that something that lainons would like to see further developed and hosted? maintaining a list of websites myself is out of scope for this project. the idea is to take an existing list and use to feed the aggregator.

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 No.84426>>84435

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>>84423
I'd think it'd be cool. FWIW A while ago I was working on a similar project for different reasons which attempts to see when the last update was for members of the webring. This is partially done through feeds, but also though Neocities's API when applicable or the Last-Modified header.

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 No.84435

>>84423
>>84426
It shouldn't be that hard to add an RSS feed to STEKI, I'll start looking into it after I set up self hosting.
Any resources you prefer on setting up an RSS feed?

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 No.84451

>>84423
I’m currently working on a list of websites myself and was just wishing someone else would collect all the feeds, so this is amazing.

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 No.84458>>84950

andrei.xyz and 0x19.org, you got tagged for a challenge by sizeof.

https://sizeof.cat/post/blog-questions-challenge-2025/

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 No.84950

>>84458
I know. I am still taking a break from computers despite lurking occasionally.
0x19 is a corpse. I have thought about technology for exactly 0 minutes over the last 6 months. All of the IRL soykaf crescendos into the most stressful day of my life a month ago but I don't think it's over yet. I feel like a soulless husk.
I need to write but I don't think I would do it justice and later come to regret something so hasty.
I did recently help an old friend fix a RMarkdown->blogdown->hugo->html nightmare. The inspiration to make something simpler a la 0x19 is something I hope to see from this friend.
Send emails + stay strapped.
Sleep is taking me. Goodnight, Lains.

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 No.85150>>86025

>>84423
I personally only advertise the feed (through<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" etc in header) on the /blog/ page of site.
would it help if I throw it on regular homepage also? but it feels wrong to do so when its not about that page and the homepage is just a landing page

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 No.85170

>>84423
>no feed found for glowbox.

my feed is at /rss.php

How is your tool discovering feeds? I wrote the feed script myself, so perhaps something is wrong with how I have things formatted? The feed works as far as I can see, though.

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 No.85249>>85250

>>84423

I think https://swindlesmccoop.xyz/ is a scam website, should probably be removed from ring.

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 No.85250

>>85249
The original site owner moved to
https://swindlesmccoop.github.io

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 No.85460>>85465

>>84405
reminder that my website works without the port now :D
https://articexploit.xyz/ring/

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 No.85465

>>85460
thanks man, big fan of how cozy ur site is


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 No.85729>>85871>>85886>>85889

>>84368
Welcome back and really cool website :D !
I was also looking into actually self hosting my website (instead of using a VPS). Any tip on that?

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 No.85871>>85914

>>85729
the biggest obstacle will be:

ISPs are sometimes hesitant to provide a static IP, and the modern default is typically a dynamic IP. you can use DDNS if they are unwilling but it's a pain and lots of providers just want all the money they can get and totally gimp their service to incentivise premium purchases or whatever

some ISPs won't let you port forward 443 and 80 (more unlikely)

i'd recommend nginx for hosting static stuff, apache is the chubby older brother of reverse proxies

7666 of lain.la has a pretty comprehensive infrastructure blog where he self hosts on a large scale for a boatload of users accessible here https://infrablog.lain.la/

your current setup on VPS will probably work absolutely fine. if your provider lets you take snapshots, i recommend just restoring locally from a snapshot and running from there.

give me a shout if there's anything in particular you need help with

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 No.85886

>>85729
I'd just use the VPS as reverse proxy, so your IP is still protected and you can kinda filter malicious traffic before it its your own network.

I have a setup where I tunnel the traffic over SSH, so I don't even need to port forward.

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 No.85889

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>>85729
>>82857
> reduced for the server admin
Cant they just not click on the tor links? Lol, how is having a tor link exposing anything for anyone?

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 No.85914

>>85871
Thanks for the link, 7666's site has really really cool stuff.
My current setup really works well, the main reason I was thinking on moving is to just not pay the VPS and use my plex machine for something other than plex

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 No.86023>>86024>>86039>>86456>>86677

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Here's my website: https://otherdemons.com

It's a personal image/video/link/journal collection organized as a tree that you have to explore manually. There are about 300 pages but not all are currently reachable as I'm still actively working on this.

I used https://github.com/venvx/lainchan-webring for the webring links. I might try update and fix the links later.

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 No.86024>>86034

>>86023
I like the clicking around finding cool stuff experience, very simple and effective.
it seems that from that webring source a lot of the gifs are saved incorrectly, thumbnail possibly, and do not animate nor are full quality

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 No.86025

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>>85150
I have decided to slap a feed tag in the mainpage as well, if anyone is scraping it in such manners without going to the blog part first, seems to be valid

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 No.86034>>86057

>>86024
Good catch. I now changed the source to https://articexploit.xyz/ring/ and also converted their data to JSON format.

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 No.86039

>>86023
Cute concept, I clicked through a few times.

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 No.86057

>>86034
I really should convert the whole thing in json and other useful formats, will do when I have some spare time

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 No.86239>>86368>>86378

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Started a new blog about theology and stuff:
crusades.neocities.org

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 No.86368

>>86239
I am having trouble with Neocities in general today. But nevertheless I can see your index, all else is inacessible. I like the barebones approach and the space background

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 No.86378>>86400

>>86239
Had some toughts about an article from you, I tried looking for some kind of contact form on your site(you should add something), but couldnt find anything and because the text is bit long i uploaded it to rentry:

https://rentry.co/response_crusade

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 No.86391>>86406>>86421>>86677

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Everyone's sites are soo cool
I am slowly adding all the webrings of the sites i can still access . I started work on my site recently and it still breaks here and there but looking at other lains gave me hope and inspiration. (the site is full of late night schizo rants)
>>link: dotto.neocities.org

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 No.86400

>>86378
I made an email a few days ago ([email protected]) so if you have anything else to say feel free to message me.

I also made a response to your response:
https://crusades.neocities.org/articles/response

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 No.86406>>86463

>>86391
I love your photos! Night photography in urban areas has an impeccable vibe

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 No.86421>>86463

>>86391
Wow, that's a great site. Adding you on the next update of STEKI. Seriously, great atmosphere, the whole vibe is there from the photos to the about section to every single detail

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 No.86456>>86677>>87345

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Hey all, I've made a new banner. Old one is still fine to use but thought i would post it anyway.
https://mouseling.net/

>>86023
Forgot to say this when I saw it but this site is great! It really feels like falling down the rabbithole.

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 No.86463

>>86406
ty ; )

>>86421
Thanks, Yours is a great site too, so means a lot coming from you. can relate a lot with the poetry, especially the one on music and static plague , vivid descriptions of places we all find ourselves in ... will stay tuned for more updates

>>82898
Your poem on lilies truly made my day, It is a direct contrast to all the darkness that's in my own site . God bless your soul !

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 No.86660

Made this extremely simple HTML-C preprocessor integration that may be of use to people who want to include HTML fragments in other pages in a pure static fashion (no SSI or complex SSG):
https://git.sr.ht/~q3cpma/html-cpp

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 No.86677>>86678

Added:
>>86023
Interesting.
* Your CSS doesn't seem to like narrow viewports.
* The banners in the lainring are resized, making a mess of pixel art (from the `.ring-table img {width: 100%;}` CSS rule, apparently).
* Might want to show the tree path at the top of the page (using https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/nav).
* No feed? =(
>>86391
Extremely rad! Showed it to a colleague who then wanted to see the source, but we didn't find it. I really wanted to be able to move all the windows, though... and some of them don't have the usual bar with buttons.
No feed too, but the blog doesn't seem to be the website's highlight.

>>86456
Updated. I liked the old one's sharp pixel art palette, though.

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 No.86678

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>>86677
Thanks for the feedback. Hopefully the lainring banners are fixed now. I removed the scaling, but honestly I couldn't myself see it affect the art. Maybe it depends on the screen resolution.

I have been testing the site on mobile and a vertical monitor and it seems to roughly work for me. As you can tell, I'm a total noob at CSS so it's never going to be perfect, but do tell if you see a specific issue.

Having a feed for this site doesn't seem right at this point because I'm constantly moving things and editing everywhere.

Showing the tree path is something that I'm considering. Without it, the user has to navigate backwards one page at a time which I hope makes the site feel maze-like. Also I like the idea that if someone links to a "deep" page on the site then the users coming in from that link cannot go upwards in the tree. Could be it's just annoying though.

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 No.86708

>>82910
>layperson
Are you like, British, or something?

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 No.86786>>86787>>86788>>86809>>86812

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hello lain!
https://cliace.neocities.org/

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 No.86787

>>86786
Aw man. I am not in this webring either.

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 No.86788>>86789

>>86786
hahahaha, ok this is very fun for no needed extra reasons. I was just trying to find out how to write symbols with ascii.
I'll add you asap on projectsteki. I had no idea how to post stuff in the terminal and nvm I clicked helped after I left lmao. I'd like to write some script and draw something simple in a corrner there, the dwarf fortress face for example.

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 No.86789

>>86788
that'd be awesome, was fun playing together

I may increase rate limit and place timer when there's heavy load, so keep that in mind when coding

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 No.86809

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>>86786
the RSS feed at https://mayvaneday.org/feed.xml hasn't existed for at least a year, and all of you still requesting it are wasting your bandwidth

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 No.86812>>86820

>>86786
>Connection rejected: only one connection per IP allowed.
;_;

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 No.86817

>>82913
It isn't that nothing matters in the end. Nihilism is the state of the world right now, which has no meaning, as all meaning has been reduced to utilizing things as mere things in what their value is in being used to gain something new from those things. Of course it has a lot more going on, but I think without getting into the death of God this is as basic as it can be seen.

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 No.86820

>>86812
Your original connection will be kicked after 20 minutes of inactivity

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 No.87026>>87038>>87385>>87942

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I somehow fuarrrked up and managed to post in PART THREE of this thread's series. I apologize.

https://cy-x.net
https://cy-x.net/forum/images/button.png
My personal website and network where I am providing my self hosted services for anyone interested in breaking away from corporate platforms and communicating
in places away from privacy violation.

There's also a lainchan theme, just for fun

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 No.87038>>87096

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>>87026
Either there's no webring page or it's not visually obvious enough for a person to find it.

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 No.87088>>87129

>>83581
>People deserve the freedom to make their own choices without being shamed or ridiculed. Until DigDeeper learns to respect that, it will remain what it is: a schizo circle jerk that preaches to the choir and alienates everyone else. And I will continue to write articles like this to call it out.

Why not instead write articles criticizing the billionaires and upper 1% that are implementing super invasive technology that will make them more powerful and screw us all over?

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 No.87091

>>People deserve the freedom to make their own choices without being shamed or ridiculed.
The irony...

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 No.87096>>87103

>>87038
When I posted this, you could find the webring page by simply scrolling down to the bottom of the front page. Under the donation section you'd find the Webrings section.

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 No.87103

>>87096
I see a "no-ai" webring, but not a lainchan webring

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 No.87112>>87126>>87129

sizeof.cat gave up :(
https://sizeof.cat/post/website-updates-2025/

>I removed A LOT of content from the website, including the notes section, articles and ideas, because I felt like I was shouting into the void since nobody is listening anyway and definitely is not educated enough to realize humankind is going through a struggle that is not going to end well. To each his own, after all. There will be no more politics discussion here, no more leaks, no more torrents. 4chan is ↖ way and Reddit is ↘.

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 No.87125

I think this is really neat and am strongly tempted to contribute

Would there be interest in an amateur electronics / HAM blog addition to the ring? Do any of those exist already?

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 No.87126

>>87112
LainNet also dipped out:
http://lainnet.arcesia.net/blog/2025_06_22.html

> I will however take this opportunity to announce my departure from webrings and the like, particularly the decentralized Lainchan one. I found it a cute little thing back in late 2022 when I was still under the .superglobalmegacorp.com domain (thanks neozeed!) and wanted to participate, but now I almost never check the threads out and I feel like I have next to nothing in common with the people who are in it right now. Not helping matters is that over half the catalogue is either entirely dead or also announced their departure, so it's really just a sinking ship. I will however keep adding links to places I find interesting or those where I have good relations with the operator(s).

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 No.87128>>87232

It's sad to see people go. I've been too closed in my own thoughts and random communities away from here over these years and as of recent. Whenever anyone leaves I just get regrets of not sending emails and conversing with them or replying to their articles.

I've been following sizeof for a good while I just never got the urge to send them anything since I've almost entirelly abandoned progremming and focused exclusivelly on literature over the past 4 years.

Same crap as making deurist and dipping years ago.

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 No.87129>>87151

>>87088
Let's be honest, most people autistic enough to see the site already know that. In fact it's a mainstream truism at this point. The left calls it capitalism, the right calls it globalism.
>>87112
All I see in this quote is someone full of unwarrented pride and bankrupt of will

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 No.87151>>87154

>>87129
Well, the feeling of talking into the void after all the things you post about, really takes a toll on anyone.

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 No.87154>>87156

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>>87151
What would be the world be like if Stallman gave up on free software because he felt like no one was listening?

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 No.87156>>87258>>87260

>>87154
But I am not Stallman

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 No.87232

>>87128
>sizeof
He's already back. He changed the theme of his website during his downtime. I think 4chan explained to him it was pointless and nonsensical what he was doing.

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 No.87242>>87262>>87385

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hey lainanons!

https://dalem.foo

this is my site, it's decently new, and it's not really full of content (to a point I would want), although there are multiple blog articles in the making (mainly on electronics and old mainframes). It's a personal wiki where I share my code and art.

The tech stack is OpenBSD running werc via plan9port
more info on that here: https://dalem.foo/setup

email: lain [at] dalem [dot] foo

the webring can be found here: https://dalem.foo/webrings/rings

cheers!

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 No.87258>>87259

>>87156
Yes but you are a person. You must have some amount of beliefs, morals, or ideals no? These are things that help define you as a person.
Letting other's validation define your dogma means giving up control of who you are, for better or for worse.

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 No.87259

>>87258
That is precicelly why I am not another person. I am so myself that these ideals and morals are wholly defined by not being replicatable at another's name and substance. I am not Stallman.
I let the rule of emotions govern me once in a while. This is perhaps why I have children and Stallman doesn't?

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 No.87260

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>>87156
>But I am not Stallman
And that's something you should be ashamed of.

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 No.87262

>>87242
Very nice! We need more websites with effort. Small nitpicks: https://blog.dalem.foo/posts/2025/06/14/0/ shows some encoding issue in your generator ("the Polish People’s Republic") and you have some typos on the landing page (missing apostrophes and uncapitalized I).

Added, included your feed to my reader.

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 No.87263

>> 87262

hm. That’s weird, looks alright on my end in multiple browsers and operating systems, mind sharing your configuration. Also as for typos… yeah I am an ESL, will go back fixing it soon, I treat it less as a post-once and forget type of thing but a living breathing document on all things odra, and also that post is bit of a draft anyway. I have some more serious stuff coming. Thanks for feedback!

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 No.87318>>87323>>87330>>87332

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hey lainons, this is my website:
https://drfaust.ddns.net
https://drfaust.ddns.net/lainchan-webring/
nothing fancy, just my personal blog, and a shoutout to the web of the 90s

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 No.87323

>>87318
Muy buena página! Me diste ganas de volver al Colón, hace mucho que no voy.

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 No.87330>>87335>>87343

>>87318
Where do people get the lainring from nowadays and why is it always missing a few new and active pages?

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 No.87332>>87333

>>87318
>blocked by ublock
lol

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 No.87333

>>87332
People still use ublock instead of origin?

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 No.87335

>>87330
i joined a bunch of old link lists and the contents of this thread:
https://github.com/FaustRepos/LainchanWebring
let me know if i should include some other link list, and feel free to collaborate with new links

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 No.87343>>87347

>>87330
I've been manually maintaining mine

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 No.87345

>>86456
your site's layout is broken on any high-res screen

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 No.87347>>87352

>>87343
can you post a list of all active pages with just the URL? it might be possible to automate this somehow..

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 No.87352

>>87347
See
>>83024
>>83472

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 No.87358>>87359

>>82851

>afraid of getting a domain name as I don't know a proper way to get them anonymously or at least without registering my name with it.

1. lie about your details
2. trade bitcoin into something private and back into a second bitcoin wallet


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 No.87360>>87361>>87362

>>87359
is cockbox still safe after all that happened?

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 No.87361>>87385

>>87360
Cockbox has an onion, doesn't require a valid email and accepts XMR. Who knows if these things can be trusted, glowies run some of these and lie in the ToS. So don't trust them. Register, access and pay anonymously.
https://cockbox.org/
http://dwtqmjzvn2c6z2x462mmbd34ugjjrodowtul4jfbkexjuttzaqzcjyad.onion/

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 No.87362

>>87360
What happened to cockbox? Are you sure you don't mean cock.li?

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 No.87364>>87375

Is kill-9.xyz dead? have been trying to look at it for months now and I've never seen anything that wasn't a blank white screen

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 No.87375>>87376

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>>87364
The owner had a public meltdown after being cockblocked and nuked all his sites. I don't think it's coming back.

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 No.87376>>87382>>87384

>>87375
Damn. You know what was on it before it died?

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 No.87382>>87384

>>87376
Have you ever read cat-v's harmful list? https://harmful.cat-v.org/
Same thing but different, if I recall correctly.

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 No.87384

>>87382
>>87376
I remembered that someone made an archive right after I posted this, gomen: https://arc.kill-9.rip/

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 No.87385>>87393>>87534

Lots of movement in here eh?

I am still working but I am majorly burnt out and I just can't take it anymore without a long vacation. I've reached 24 chapters on the project and its sucking my soul away. I will update my ring with the new people soon, still working on Layer 2 of my site.

>>87026
Me join. Forums good.

>>87242
I really like the photography, I'm a sucker for this type of photo and I don't know what its caleld. Jestes Polak? Got any Polish writer recomendations?

>>87361
I am not sure about this, but it might jsut be me fuarrrking up. I mainly don't have access to my cock.li email, at least every once in two months where I try, so idk how reliable their hosting services are. Looking at their recent events as well.

How hard is to self host nowadays? I've got my old desktop here and I want to do 2 things (if I ever get around).

First thing is I want to host a UT99 server (I spoke with some agoraroad guys and they are into this as they used to play) and second is well, hosting my site there.

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 No.87393>>87394

>>87385

tak jestem z polski (stety bądź niestety) :-)

as for writer recommendations - Stanisław Lem would probably be the biggest one.

To be fully honest I am not the biggest fan of polish literature, I do have other cultural/arts favorties tho

cheers!

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 No.87394>>87403

>>87393
To expand on this "other" OP, Lem's SF is really fun and all, but I believe his forte are essays. Get GOLEM XIV, Summa Technologiae and Dialogues as fast as possible. If you want some "fiction" then Imaginary Magnitude / A Perfect Vacuum is easily his best work.

Should Westerners even bother with Polish SF? Possibly, but we were firmly rooted in "social" SF. These works have some charm, but sadly are rather shallow for contemporary eyes. Compared do our fantasy (singling out certain Sapkovsky here) they don't examine the social issues well aside from "social control and lying = bad".

If one want to dive into modern socially oriented SF, one shouldn't look further than Dukaj, especially his novel "Ice". Why? Because it is "science" fiction all right, but this fiction riffs on the only science worth knowing, the science of history. If one liked Disco Elysium for it's "left" hegelian/para-marxist stance, Dukaj will woves itself into "right" hegelian counterpoint.

My three cents.

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 No.87403>>87415

>>87394
I went to Wroclaw 4? years ago and I picked up some Polish along the way. There is a case there to be made about being a fun language and a bit on the easier side because of some odd similarities to greek, but pronouncing Polish is the bane of my existence.

Loved Polish cinema when I dabbled a bit in it. Pawlikowski's work is trully one of the greatest, but when I saw Na srebrnym globie I thought it was probably one of the best sci-fi movies I watched of all time. Not sure why by the Silver Globe is one of the few movies that has stayed with me over the years and I like how much I can't escape its influence.

If that is Polish SF then I think I'll probably spend the next year reading Dukaj, even more when you say that it is a mirror of Disco Elysium. I'll also pick up the three essays that you mentioned, wherever I find em.

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 No.87415

>>87403

>Polish Cinema
It might be a generic response to be honest, but I have no love for polish SF cinema. Our "craft" worked best during communist times - Manuscript Found in Saragossa (nested story of certain Alfonso with Roma people, muslim and orientalist themes), Promised Land (Jewish, German and Polish capitalists try to create a factory during the Partitions of Poland in legendary Lodz), Knife in Water (won't describe, too good), Mother Joan of the Angels (remote monastery with religious horror undertones), ANYTHING by Kieslowski, Possession (technically not made in Poland, but oh well, Venetian Snares seems to like this movie quite a lot based on samples), Eve wants to Sleep (light, absurdist comedy).
>Polish SF
Mirror is a bad word to be honest. I just takes a hegelian stance of history. I mean the author is famously right-wing and actual catholic (doesn't change the fact that Perfect Imperfection intoduced post-gendered language into Polish - dukaisms).

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 No.87525>>87529>>87537>>87540>>87783

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Hiya Lainons

I used to run concealed.world and participate here years ago, then dropped off the face of the wired. I'd like back in on the fun again, it's really cool to see this still going.

https://meth.cat/lainring/

Mainly for my soykaf flinging IRC network, with plans to add more chat and gaming services. Git in the near future, for hosting my code and scripts and things that might be helpful for other small website admins. I (might) get back into blogging (eventually) for the same purpose.

Much love

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 No.87529>>87533

>>87525
Are there more tech/privacy-minded people in Spain like you, or are people just turbo normal people like in America?

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 No.87530>>87533

Damn it, Yukinu is out.

It's been so long...

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 No.87533

Forgot to mention I have an onion mirror:
https://meth.cat/
http://methcat5hp2i6il7suscvpjct3zqmgbk2ufggyqrelfcsu22xrz3uoyd.onion/

>>87529
You might have me mixed up with someone else, I'm from Scotland. I do have a friend out in Spain who is very into servers, free software and privacy.

>or are people just turbo normal people like in America?
Americans are weird, but honestly, I talk to pretty even numbers of Europeans and Americans into tech.

>>87530
I noticed a few days before I joined, it's a shame to see him go. I can relate to losing the motivation for periods of time. If I recall it's not the first time Yukinu's been gone for a while, so at least I'm pretty confident he'll be back sooner or later.

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 No.87534>>87536

>>87385
>I mainly don't have access to my cock.li email, at least every once in two months where I try, so idk how reliable their hosting services are. Looking at their recent events as well.
I'm also on cock.li, the webmail hack was very concerning. Having read into it though not much of consequence was leaked, email addresses (mine is already public information) and login times mainly.

The webmail is kill, but the email itself works fine for me in neomutt.

Love your stuff by the way

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 No.87536>>87572

>>87534
I've spent the last 15 mins trying to remember how concealed world used to look. I've been around since thread no3 here, I just can't remember. Was it the one with the gray saturn image at the center and top of the webpage?

>newmutt
Everyday there is some new freeware to explore, I'll try through there.

Anyways, glad you enjoyed my site. Last one I made here in 2021(?) or 22 I didn't bother updating much. Your site looks dope, I really like the layout and purple to black contrast. You have some really useful links there

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 No.87537

>>87525
glad to see you back!

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 No.87540>>87572

>>87525
really liked your site, I'll replace it with this. I remember you bailing out what made you come back?
t. xn-neko

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 No.87572

>>87536
Thank you!

concealed.world was similar, in that I exclusively used dithered art, and the colour scheme was pink on black. It had Ed at the top of the page (she is my spirit animal), and was mainly for my blogs on various tech things I liked with some semi-obscure media on the side.

>>87540
I retracted from doing much on the wired mainly just due to tough times in life, won't get into all that in a public setting. Life doesn't get easier you just get better at it. But retrospectively I really enjoyed the time I spent on my website and with the lainring, so I want to get back to it.

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 No.87607

>>82769 (OP)

recent update to darknet lantern, i started listing the top 70 simplex chatrooms to avoid having to go through the simplex directory going forward:
http://lantern.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd DOT onion/index.php?query=Simplex%20Chatrooms&sensitive=1

and i also started listing all the non-official simplex SMP/XFTP servers aswell to avoid having to go through that asriyan simplex directory aswell :
http://lantern.nowherejezfoltodf4jiyl6r56jnzintap5vyjlia7fkirfsnfizflqd DOT onion/index.php?query=Simplex%20Servers&sensitive=1

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 No.87650

Hi again everyone. Just updated the webring on my side ( https://grafo.zone/en/links/ )and also changed my RSS
For english: https://grafo.zone/en/index.xml
For spanish: https://grafo.zone/index.xml

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 No.87676>>87778

Why is it called webring if it's not a ring? Every site links to every other site instead of just two, one before it and one after it, like a ring.

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 No.87685

because it's about decentralization...except that defeats the entire point of a webring; one entity which links many people together in a ring. lol

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 No.87686

Because 'No matter where you go, everyone's connected'

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 No.87710>>87712>>87767>>87778

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Whilst I tried to revamp https://ty3r0x.chaox.ro, I discovered a pretty annoying problem, bootstrapping Lainring integrally is really hard, since nobody has the exact reference of the ring. There was an attempt to centralize the ring in the past[1], however it's currently unamintained. I am proposing a method to scrape the latest thread and automatically add each site through the use of a member template. Please take an eye here[2] for more feedback!

[1] https://github.com/organelle-system/lainchan-webring
[2] https://github.com/organelle-system/lainchan-webring/issues/16

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 No.87712

>>87710
Not sure the scrape method would work quite honestly, how would it handle banner changes and/or spam?

I also don't necessarily think that having something automated and centralized would be a bad idea (if functional). But I also feel like leaving it a little esoteric and decentralized as it is right now, makes for the perfect opportunity for new members to really explore the ring.

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 No.87749>>87761

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Hello guys, I updated my webring with the newly added sites. I am still keeping up the ones that return 404's anyways for the lulz. If yours is missing just let me know. I attach my current banner and button.
site: https://mm4rk3t.xyz
RSS: https://mm4rk3t.xyz/rss.xml
ring: https://mm4rk3t.xyz/sites.html

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 No.87761>>87777

>>87749
oh I think my site is missing, here you can get the banner:
https://grafo.zone/links/

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 No.87767

>>87710
I dig this initiative. Would make sense to scrape 5-6 of the active pages here and keep track of what new is added on top of posts in the thread I suppose.

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 No.87777

>>87761
Ok, thanks. I'll get to it

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 No.87778

>>87710
honestly, I'd love to have a reference ring, I need to get my copy of the ring up to spec again
having made the attempt to keep up, I've come to realize that expecting everyone to manually take notice of new additions is, in a word, insane

>>87676
it sounds better
the topology is more of a mesh, really, each node connecting to every other one
it's arguably as hard to sustain as any large mesh too

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 No.87779>>87782

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Hello folks!
After few years of neglecting my part in this I decided to finally update my site again:
Site: https://omicronsetup.eu
Ring: https://omicronsetup.eu/webring.xhtml

Changed the text in about page, added a basic blog and a guest book.
I still want to add at least basic RSS before investing more time into it, hopefully sooner rather than later.

Btw, it's awesome to see so many people adding their pages, I love going through them all.

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 No.87782>>87783

>>87779
your front page is broken, you can't close a script tag that way
what you need is
<script src="js/booting.js" type="application/javascript"></script>
going to home.xhtml directly works

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 No.87783

>>87782
Thanks for the catch, it should be fixed now. For some reason a functional version remained in my cache the entire time, probably from before I rewrote the site to XHTML, so I completely missed it.

>>87525
I was wondering why your site felt so familiar to concealed.world. It's nice to see you getting back, I really like that design.

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 No.87784>>87785>>87786>>87796

oh boy! More websites with 3 blogs written 5 years ago about the same topics everyone else has written about, that all look basically the same!

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 No.87785>>87786

>>87784
turns out a lot of people are like "woah, let me make a website" and then lose that spark really quickly
bit of a shame, but that's life, most endeavors get abandoned
every once in a while, you get something special

soykaf, I update my site a bunch, but there are a fair few projects listed on it that I've abandoned (even if I do regularly think about them, it isn't like I've actually worked on them)

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 No.87786>>87796

>>87784
>>87785

Well, I mean even those that are uploading on the regular have no way of getting decent discussions going.

I'm dying for some feedback here. Anything really, but I can't complain since I reach out less often than I seek it.

The novelty of a website really dies out when people don't reach out to speak about the contents.

Anyways, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do in silence.

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 No.87796

>>87786
Repeat after me: interesting blogs are made for yourself, any interaction that comes out of it is a bonus. A welcome bonus, but still a bonus.

You're not going to make it if you constantly wonder about your viewership.
>>87784
I post almost weekly but I agree, and that's probably the reason I should dynamically partition my ring page into active and inactive (something like: there's been an update in the last 3 months).

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 No.87799>>87832

Layer 2 added, project is going well. Kinda of a big update, want to post random ramblings on layer2. I also want to figure something out about active/inactive pages, but my solution involves a scraper.

I was thinking to categorize sites instead of keeping track of whether they are active or not.

1-You will have the inactive pages (those completely gone and wiped/ inaccessible).

2-And the rest is categorized by latest date in a post and create a list in the webring page. Last updated in 2020, 21 etc and keep them bundled as such. Should create a script going through each page looking for dates maybe.

My two silly cents.

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 No.87832>>87854

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>>87799
> the rest is categorized by latest date in a post
Genuinely curious: how do you plan on sorting websites that don't have a blog or a place for "post"s?

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 No.87854>>87864

>>87832
New category perhaps? Bundle them as Undated? Resulting in something like:

1-Non-accessible / Dead

2-Undated

3-Dated

So I guess bundling them as such might do the trick? The 2nd category does not clarify on which pages are actually still updating.

However, we could keep track of something in those pages. Hash that something and compare it with itself on the previous run each time? If there is a change then push it at the bottom of the 2nd category, ordering by descending oldest to newest.

Put this into a cron job, keep the hashes in a txt file?

I am not sure, programming isn't my forte but I really think I ought to try and build this.

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 No.87864>>87903

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>>87854
> However, we could keep track of something in those pages. Hash that something and compare it with itself on the previous run each time?
I personally recommend checking the HTTP Last-Modified header. If a website has a script on it that makes part of the page change every refresh, and you're checking against content changes, the dynamic content might throw a false positive in your script. But the Last-Modified HTTP header would stay the same.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Last-Modified
Or, if the site is backed up / hosted in a Git repository, you could monitor the commit history in that repository. This would work well for sites on Codeberg Pages.

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 No.87903

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>>87864
Alrighty. Worked a little bit on it, gonna use beautifulsoup and python on this for scraping and parsing things around.

>inb4 I am not using lighter languages / frameworks etc...

Thank you for the input I'll play around with this and see how I can also work with the modified header. Should have something by the end of summer.

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 No.87942

>>87026
>cy-x.net
https://cy-x.net/webrings
Overhauled my site and added the Lainring.

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 No.87967>>87996

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https://353cloud.neocities.org/webring

still a work in progress, some pages don't exist yet, but yeah, i'll slowly build this up over time.
Also, neocities is kind of a temporary solution, but since it works, i'll likely keep using this for the foreseeable future.
Only using basic html and css just as god intended or something.
will look into the rss thingy though as that looks nice.

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 No.87996>>88049

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>>87967
diary seems broken, otherwise solid aesthetic just need some content
t. xn-neko

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 No.88049

>>87996
work in progress™. Ii'll be sure to add stuff to my very interesting blog soon enough.
thank you for the praise though <3

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 No.88075

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I have posted it a long time ago but I have since then gotten my own domain and slightly updated the design.
https://nosleep.network/

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 No.88217>>88395

>>83581
>>85552
What happened to the I2P mirror?

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 No.88240>>88241>>88301>>88345

It is really cool and all, but everyone is trying to maintain their own instance, and it is really a pain in the ass. Why you do not just create a centralized html file or something we can just link to, like the XXIIVV webring?

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 No.88241>>88243>>88345

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>>88240
I think it should be in the most active website of the webring.

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 No.88243

>>88241
I think Appleman and his mods should install this page on lainchan.org as a link in the main bar, the most plausible place for this to be. Besides greatly improving this webring, it would also show good will and engagement in the community from the mods and admins.

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 No.88301>>88302

>>88240
right now its decentralized, as it is now any site could die, the entire chan could die, but itd still be there and up to date

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 No.88302>>88305

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> as it is now any site could die, the entire chan could die, but itd still be there and up to date

>>88301 There are more sane ways to ensure this. Especially when the site, in fact, is not dead.

You could create the aforementioned centralized html file and require all the webring members to keep, say, five local backups of it until its last change, with three months between each backup.

This would make it way easier to manage all the websites and keep them up to date. It would also help if the central file gets attacked or just vanishes. But the way it is now, it's just a pain to join the webring. When you know most of the members are inactive and that only a few sites will add you even if you join, you just don't want to do it.

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 No.88305

>>88302

> There are more sane ways to ensure this. Especially when the site, in fact, is not dead.

I meant the central website that contains the html file (lainchan.org etc.) by this. Somehow, I twisted your comment in my brain and answered that twisted version of it.

Now, when I look at this part of my reply, it looks very out of context. Sorry, I am not good at communication.

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 No.88345>>88400

>>88240
>>88241
maybe not the most active website but I do keep an up to date version of the webring with all the websites old and new,
I also have a download link to a zip with all the banners and an html,
Should probably start providing a json, csv and opml files.
Anyways look here https://articexploit.xyz/ring/

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 No.88368>>88369>>88472

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sizeofcat is starting a new private invite-only community, sounds like a good idea to be honest, what do you think?
http://sizeof.cat/post/new-community/
http://sizeof.cat/notes/1756301179/
He seems to have got lots of people interested (by the looks of the guestbook).

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 No.88369>>88380

>>88368
That's a great idea but making it invite-only seems like a sure way to kill it.

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 No.88380

>>88369
> That's a great idea
I agree, I really like the site and I've learned a lot reading it over the years. I imagine that a lot of the people who also read the site could have a lot of interesting insight, like from some of the guest articles that got posted once.

> [M]aking it invite-only seems like a sure way to kill it.
Perhaps it will die after a few days, or weeks, or months. Perhaps it will quietly prosper. Only time will tell.

I suppose a large part will come down to how invites are managed. If people can spam and mass generate invites, it may be an issue. I wager SizeOf(Cat) has something in mind to handle it.
I'm interested to see how it goes.

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 No.88395

>>88217
unfortunately my homelab just died
itll be down on I2P until further notice.. apologies

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 No.88396

currently considering rewriting my site to use PHP for handling the publication of new posts
unsure what to do with my site for now… not too inspired.

any feedback is appreciated

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 No.88400

>>88345
>cloudflare Tunnel error
what a shame, i was so eager to finally maybe see my banner somewhere other than my site ;-;

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 No.88472>>88473

>>88368
Is anybody from Lainchan already in this Cafe thing? I'd exchange PGP keys if that's the case, as I don't know how I'm supposed to get an invite to this new sikrit klub.

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 No.88473

>>88472
Drop an email to the author
https://sizeof.cat/about/
basically email to sizeofcat AT riseup DOT net
I asked and I got an invite.

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 No.88506

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>>83825
got the webring up to date

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