Cleaned up the old neocities quite a bit!
- The Home and Links pages are now in up to date and good state!
- I've purged my existing Art, Games and Writing pages in favour of a Gallery page that I'll fill out at a later date with samples of my work and links to specific off-site galleries
- Added a Blog page, although it is currently empty
- Put an "Out of Date" warning at the top of my About page as the entire personal essay there needs a massive rewrite, as I've been through and discovered a lot about myself since it was originally written mid last year
- Cleaned up a bunch of the back-end of my dashboard, not that any of that is visible
Did anyone figure out a good way to maintain a blog on a neocities website btw? I couldn't find an easy solution that worked and I'd rather not have to run a script to generate RSS and so on...
I now have the Blog page working!
It's currently hosted on Mataroa which I appreciate the mission statement of and it's ease of use. But even in this state where I am using RSS 2 HTML in order to display it with my own styling on neocities, it may be a bit too limited still for my tastes.
I've been considering other blogging platforms I could use (as I'm not super keen on self hosting at this time) and the best contenders I've seen are Bear-Blog and Dreamwidth
Bear-Blog has the advantage that it's mission statement is excellent, pricing good and it supports that bear (ha) minimum of image hosting I'd appreciate. Unfortunatly the NSFW policy on it is a bit complicated and whilst it seems to be okay it comes with extra caveats of domain hosting for the maintainer to be comfortable.
Dreamwidth on the other hand I can just flag my blog as NSFW and happy blog along as I'd like! It even supports a basic comments system which I think I would appreciate and I do feel is lacking in Mataroa and Bear-Blog. That said pretty much all I know about Dreamwidth is that it's built on the corpse of Live-journal and that people look down on it or something? I genuinely don't know enough otherwise.
I'm leaning towards making a Dreamwidth if I remain unsatisfied with my Mataroa. I'm going to be honest I haven't done a lot of exploration of alternatives though and the only ones I'm personally aware of Blogspot, Wordpress, etc I don't want to touch with a ten foot pole!
Any further suggestions that don't involve me spinning up a web-server and self hosting would be appreciated, but otherwise I can make do.
