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5 votes
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The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com
10 votes -
Musician Holly Herndon open sources her voice
14 votes -
Tech workers rebel against a lame-ass Internet by bringing back ‘GeoCities-style’ Webrings
26 votes -
Peachesnstink: An interesting tildes/reddit-esque website
5 votes -
Why have web pages dropped the www?
I don't know where to put this question, if here or in ~tech, but I chose here due to I want a response for someone who doesn't know all about internet. So my question is: why there is a trend of...
I don't know where to put this question, if here or in ~tech, but I chose here due to I want a response for someone who doesn't know all about internet.
So my question is: why there is a trend of removing the www of every web address? why it was standard in the first place and not now?
There are a handful of popular web pages that don't use a triple w in their link and they have replaced it or removed it. Tildes, for example, doesn't need triple w. Why?
17 votes -
New ad-free search subscription service: Neeva
6 votes -
How should I make my personal website?
I am not a developer, but I do have interesting in learning. A while ago I asked a question similar to that. I did not take any concrete action since then, and now have some new information to...
I am not a developer, but I do have interesting in learning.
A while ago I asked a question similar to that. I did not take any concrete action since then, and now have some new information to add.
The website shall be called
myactualname.com, and will contain about/biography, and a few sections containing articles that I wish to write on different subjects.That can probably be done without coding on one of the many free blogging platforms currently available, such as Medium, Wordpress, and Substack, but the lack of control is unfortunate.
At the same time, I wish for this website to last a long time, and to be reasonably independent of maintenance. With the Brazilian Real valued at less than one-fifth of the US dollar, hosting prices skyrocketed. Besides, I cannot always rely on my own ability to stay on top of that kind of thing, so it would be beneficial for my web presence to be more resilient than my bank account and mental state. I figure that hosting it on Github Pages, Gitlab Pages (or both) would be a good way to avoid ever going down (it looks like duplicate content is bad for search engines, though, so I might keep one of those private, just for backup reasons). And I could reserve the domain for two or three years in advance.
I really like simple text-focused personal websites like this one. They load fast and are easy to read, but are generally not very pretty or responsive. I have basic notions of HTML and CSS and intend to learn more.
In the previous post, someone suggested using Hugo, which seems like a good option. On the other hand, for something that simple, I wonder what would be the downside of simply coding it from scratch. One thing I know for sure is that I want this website to be rather permanent: whatever changes I ever do to its design should not impact accessibility to previous content (link rot). How can I achieve that? No idea.
Since I write in English and Portuguese, the website must be bilingual. I'm not sure how to implement or manage that, especially in regards to search engines.
I resumed the course on Free Code Camp, which I expect will help in achieving all that.
With that in mind, I reiterate my question: should I make my personal website? Should I just use a free blogging platform? Should I use Hugo or something similar? Any particular free CMS? Or maybe just use what I learn to code it from scratch?
Thanks!
15 votes -
Built a satirical social network (ShlinkedIn)—would love to pick y'alls brains about social media and this project!
39 votes -
The internet feeds on its own dying dreams
4 votes -
Quit Social Media - An educational website that argues against proprietary social media and its risks
7 votes -
Stumbled, a collection of anything interesting, weird or astonishing; websites of exceptional quality, sites to kill time or learn something new
14 votes -
Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage
25 votes -
Am I FLoCed?
22 votes -
RIP SpaceJam.com, 1996-2021
16 votes -
Inside a viral website - An account of running istheshipstillstuck.com
10 votes -
Why popular YouTubers are building their own sites
17 votes -
The internet’s most beloved fanfiction site is undergoing a reckoning
15 votes -
Techworker.com launches, a new reader-funded site focusing on employees at tech companies
10 votes -
Same Energy, a visual search engine
19 votes -
Riff.cc, a torrent website for Creative Commons and free culture
Riff.cc is a private tracker torrent site that is completely focused on works distributed with creative commons, public domain, gpl or other free culture licenses. It has some plans to allow...
Riff.cc is a private tracker torrent site that is completely focused on works distributed with creative commons, public domain, gpl or other free culture licenses.
It has some plans to allow tipping creators and seeders using digital currency.You can use this invite to signup (I believe there is a limit of 90 people who can use it).
https://u.riff.cc/register/fb4dc3bf-af81-43f4-94fb-5afc6b24b159
17 votes -
Reddit Search.io
6 votes -
1MB Club - Collection of websites under 1 megabyte
11 votes -
Zalgo Text generator
3 votes -
Browservice demo - Browsing modern websites on retro computers
4 votes -
NewPipe: A FOSS alternative to classical YouTube
15 votes -
Gmail suffers another outage
12 votes -
oklinks - a Lemmy-based meta-agreggator of link sharing sites, including Tildes
4 votes -
Tool for adding trigger warnings to links
6 votes -
Company made to change name that could be used for XSS vulnerabilities
11 votes -
Announcing Good Reports, a new review site with recommendations for "non-toxic" online tools available as alternatives to Big Tech services
18 votes -
Meet the 24-year-old who’s tracking every broken McDonald’s ice-cream machine in the US
14 votes -
QAnon/8Chan sites briefly knocked offline after call to internet provider
15 votes -
What are your go-to websites and apps for desktop and mobile wallpapers?
My personal favourites are wallhaven for desktop wallpapers and Walli for mobile ones. I also like Wallpaper Flare for desktop and sometimes Unsplash for both desktop and mobile.
19 votes -
Spritely - A project to improve the capabilities of the federated social web, from one of the co-authors of the ActivityPub standard
8 votes -
Analysis of UK charity websites finds that tracking is prevalent, with almost all of the most popular charities including trackers for advertising or data brokers and failing to comply with GDPR/PECR
8 votes -
A website that randomly displays YouTube videos with zero views
22 votes -
Cloudflare outage and the risk of today's Internet
8 votes -
scholar.social: Academic and research-focused microblogging platform
11 votes -
Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked
8 votes -
ClimateAction.tech -- A global community of tech professionals using our skills, expertise and platforms to support solutions to the climate crisis
1 vote -
Discord launches a new website and announces $100M in new funding as it starts to distance itself from being a gaming-oriented service, moving towards day-to-day communication and "your place to talk"
26 votes -
Search only forums and find actually useful information with BoardReader
15 votes -
Microsimulation of traffic control: Onramp
8 votes -
"Couchsurfing needs your help" - Couchsurfing has changed to a subscription model
4 votes -
A hacker is trying to break Ohio’s tool for reporting workers who quit during the pandemic
23 votes -
Hey, what's that?
11 votes -
Apple has acquired the Dark Sky weather app - Android version and website will shut down on July 1, API active through end of 2021
41 votes -
Early meme site YTMND has been resurrected with the help of fans
18 votes -
Libravatar - A free and open source alternative to Gravatar
8 votes