Added another page to my site for short form posts and website updates
It's been a lot of fun trying out styling my website differently depending on the page! My website wouldn't exist without Cohost, and that's probably the biggest thing that will live on with me from Cohost.
many have eulogized cohost before me and probably in better words, but i wanted to have my own moment to do so also during this final week. i'll try to keep it short.
i have a creative motto since college: "make what you want to see in the world." it's been on my itch.io page since i made it all those years ago lol. i make the things that i do because i want to see them exist and be realized. it doesn't matter if someone's done it before or better than what my current skills allow, i will make what i want to make. there's a similar adage from people complacent with the current environment of media: "If you don't like it, make it yourself!" and then the same people go to piss themselves when someone, yknow, actually does it.
the staff of cohost actually went and did it and people still pissed themselves over it, but they're not who cohost was for. staff dreamed of a different kind of internet and they made it real. more than real, they made a space that people thrived in.
im upset that it's going to be over very soon, but i haven't shed any tears because anytime i scroll my feed now, it's full of people sharing their newly made blogs and websites and informing all their connections where to find them next. we're doing our best to maintain the communities and friends that we've fostered here, proving that our time at cohost was important enough that we don't want to lose the parts of it that will remain: each other.
so i implore you, go make what you want to see in the world, dream of a better internet and better/healthier interaction with social media. we can make it together because at the end of the day, cohost and staff just facilitated the grounds, it was all of us that made it special.
thank you cohost, thank you staff, thank you eggbug, thank you everyone.
I would've never made my website as it currently exists if it was not for Cohost. This mindset of "Make what you want to see in the world" was really prevalent here (at least, with people I followed) and pushed me to do more work on my website than I ever thought before. (note, some of the stuff below only looks really good on desktop)
Without Cohost, or the people on it, My website would not look anything like it does now. I probably wouldn't have learned html and css. A guiding principal for me has truly been "I like when other people have this on their site, so I'm going to do it on mine" and man... it just makes me so happy.
The Archive has all my posts ordered chronologically, rather than alphabetically, for people who want to check in on it periodically. I also tried to get a bit more creative with how this page looks compared to all my other pages (note, if you've loaded my website before you may have to clear cache or open it in an incognito window to see the formatting). It unfortunately does not look good on mobile at the moment. There are also some Eggbug easter eggs!
Edit: Mobile version is good now. Was easier than I thought to fix.
I thought it was really cool seeing what others have done so decided to make my own! I'm happy with how they came out, though may change them a bit more in the future.
