well, that's a bummer.

i'm gonna find a new home for vidrev. i think this is the impetus for me to finally invest in A Website but for now i might just migrate the posts to tumblr.

in the meantime, the best place to follow me is on mastodon @sarahzedig@shrike.club. i'm also on bluesky @hmsnofun but i don't particularly like the vibes over there so i don't use it often. i'm also active on tumblr, which is now the best place to send me anonymous asks. tumblr is also by far the best place to follow for godfeels updates and making-of posts.

naturally, i'm still making videos on youtube @letstalkaboutstuff. if you'd like to support my work monetarily (or just get updates whenever i release new things) you can find me on patreon and comradery.

expect another update before the read-only deadline once i've squared away vidrev's new home. thank you to everyone that's made cohost such a special place. i hope someday that a flexible platform like this which allows immense user freedom of expression through CSS, and that caters to community interests over corporate ones, can find a sustainable route to breaking even. let's keep our good memories and take hard lessons from the rest.

If that doesn't mean anything to you, then imagine writing blog posts in a real nice post editor, then dragging some files around until it's on the internet. This gets around the fact that I hate writing HTML or Markdown, but don't want to run some sort of overwrought Wordpress install on my own server so I can post twice a year about video games or whatever.

In other words, I don't want to think or study harder than necessary!! I just want to write!!

This is all free, requires no technical know-how, and includes multiple screenshots. I'll write a followup post talking about modifying the default theme with your own CSS, but for now this should get folks started.

EDIT Sep 10 2024: HEY now that this is blowing up again, a quick update:

I was wrong when I said this is "all" free. Publii is free, Neocities is free, Cyberduck is free, BUT Neocities won't let you upload files via Cyberduck unless you're paying $5/month.

However, you can still upload files via the Neocities interface for free. It just takes longer and is a little clunky. And you don't have to use Neocities anyway - you can upload this static site anywhere. It's completely portable, which is part of why I like Publii vs. many other solutions.

If you can't afford the $5/month, you can still do this, you just need to upload the files manually. I've also heard good things about hosting at Nearly Free Speech, which is much cheaper, though I've not used it myself.

Anyway, please ask if you have any questions, I'm more than happy to help! And if you do make a site using this, LET ME KNOW i wanna see your cool wabsites thanks

Seems like as good a time as any to reshare this.

cohost. A website. And herein dwell all manner of creatures. Many are friendly. Many are hungry. Some are dangerous. Some few may, I have it on good authority, be milked.

This guide assembles what is known of these various beasts, so that all may learn from the chosts and rebugs of those who have come before. And of course, as further scholarship is performed, this index of chosting creatures (or "chokédex," if you will) can be revised and expanded.

So, without further ado:

I guess my small contribution to cohost culture is having been quick to depict a canon form of tagslug when the opportunity presented itself, shortly after I joined

(which is to say, any form of tagslug, including:)

(remember when discord still seemed viable for quick and dirty image hosting, lemme just slap that screenshot up top)

very few of my posts here ever did severals, but I recognized a thing that had to be done, and doing the thing drew the attention of some Cool and Unexpected People, who followed me early on. it was Cool to have a few Cool People watching. they may still recognize me as a name they know for some reason/as a person on their feed, and now follow back elsewhere because I was on their feed here, even if they don't remember why and didn't interact much, because if a name is vaguely familiar, that means it's worth keeping an eye on, right

there was never a run of tagslug plushies or anything, but did you know that the ground outside gives real slugs away for free

rat lungworms can be pretty cuddly themselves