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Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website by spzb

Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website by spzb

Page is under construction: A love letter to the personal website by spzb

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  • Post Author
    ksec
    Posted February 22, 2025 at 2:45 pm

    I think the addition of "comments" on webpage is more of a cruse than a blessing.

  • Post Author
    mojuba
    Posted February 26, 2025 at 8:20 am

    And not a word about discoverability?

    The web went the way it went because ultimately centralization wins both in terms economics and discoverability. You host your blog (or rather "blog") on Facebook for free and get a chance to be discovered by strangers, for better or worse.

    Not saying it's necessarily a good thing, because now you are at a mercy of corporate censorship that isn't even required to abide by the users' constitutional rights and freedoms. They can limit your speech in any way they like and it's what they do: their platform, their rules.

    On the other hand, without centralization the web is expensive and not very discoverable. Your standalone web site is like a cactus in the middle of a vast desert nobody cares about, in fact now at a mercy of Google's indexing policies.

    There is no bottom line here. It's all about economy and capitalism, which seem to always win.

  • Post Author
    bix6
    Posted February 26, 2025 at 9:25 am

    That was a fun read. Love the default theme and ability to swap themes. I recently deleted IG so maybe it’s time for a personal website. The world needs more 5 course meal generators :)

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    FreesiaGaul
    Posted February 26, 2025 at 9:35 am

    I 1000% stand behind this. When I was thinking how I was going to make my personal website personal – I really had to think. One of the great charms in "websites of the past" is all of the neat gifs and unconventional formatting. It has really inspired me in making mine (it's still under construction at freesiagaul.com).

    Of course I'm not amazing, but frontend should feel like art, because that's what it is.

  • Post Author
    Angostura
    Posted February 26, 2025 at 9:35 am

    20 years ago in the UK most ISPs gave you a little bit of web space free with your account – and an email box of two. One of the sad changes that happened is that this has gone now.

    It used to make it really easy to have a cool little website. I used mine for a simple blog – now gone.

  • Post Author
    laurentlb
    Posted February 26, 2025 at 9:57 am

    I expected to see an "under construction" animated gif, but what I found was better.

    The garden theme made me smile. Now, I'm considering redesigning my website.

    I removed the links from my website a decade ago, but I enjoyed looking at the section on the page. Not sure what I'll do about it.

  • Post Author
    dmilicic
    Posted February 26, 2025 at 10:12 am

    I don't remember the last time I had so much fun building a web project than working on my personal website: https://dmilicic.com/

    The spirit of doing what you want is exactly what inspired me to do it, it's not the best nor the fastest web but it doesn't matter, I simply wanted to do it in a different way (Flutter & WASM).

  • Post Author
    adzm
    Posted February 26, 2025 at 10:21 am

    Shout out to my favorite one-joke website, https://www.sometimesredsometimesblue.com/ which has remained a constant in my life over the years and has never let me down

  • Post Author
    neebz
    Posted February 26, 2025 at 11:03 am

    I remember back in the summer of 1996 in Pakistan our household was one of the first few to have to internet.

    At that time angelfire.com used to give free webspace. My brother got hold of a pirated version of CorelDraw and setup a fan website of his favorite rock band Junoon, which incidentally is still online: https://www.angelfire.com/pa/JUNOON

    And then when my brother met the band at a concert and they actually recognized him due to the website. I guess first time we realized how impactful internet is going to be.

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