#do i have to figure out neocities??? do i have to pay for a domain???

[shih-coulda-had-it]

realized that a number of my art works might be mistagged because my phone does the apostrophe like so (shih’s art), but my computer keyboard does it like this (shih's art). raghhhhh i need to remake that repository on AO3… but can i trust tumblr to not lose its existence in the coming years…

[flapjacs]

📢psa: moving to neocities

I'm moving everything to my new website.

It''s still under construction but it's presentable with everything in one place: portfolio, commissions info, projects, blog. Nothing Stardew related is up yet because there's so much Dx but you can read The Jupiters and Darling Villainess there right now. Any updates regarding my visual novels will be posted there. I'll keep posting here on tumblr about my SDV portrait mod for now since you guys are my biggest support, but I haven't decided if I'm going to move away from tumblr completely yet. If you're on neocities please follow me there. I haven't learned how to do RSS yet, but that should be up shortly if you don't want to make a neocities account.

Why?

If you weren't already aware, a tumblr staff member leaked that tumblr sold us out, not surprising, but it's not just that they've joined the ai bandwagon, they included our private posts, msgs, etc, made it opt-out instead of opt-in, and the anti crawl request list (robots.txt) that updates when you opt-out only includes a few bots and as far as I've been able to figure out, is uneditable. The only reason they addressed it was because we made a stink. They had no plans to tell us and it was already too late. If you happen to use carrd, which is what I was doing for my "website" and portfolio, you can't edit the robots.txt without buying a subscription and it allows all crawlers by default. And I wasn't even paying anyway so I still don't have my own domain name regardless. Now on neocities, I can do whatever I want. It's free real estate. except filehosting. don't do that. It only took me two weeks to stop trying to overcomplicate things in the short run to make things easier in the long run. They have templates so you don't even have to learn that much coding. Bring back old internet!

What's happening with my tumblr?

I'm slowly going to backup and delete my sideblogs. I honestly don't know if I should keep @flapjacs-old and this one up. For now I will, at least until the transition is complete. Seeing as how I'm an artist and an artist with little to no reach, I'm stuck at the moment needing to keep social media.

[sushiwt]

normal random blog #3 (April 12th, 2023)

note: i would call this website update log #6, but this blog doesn’t actually talk about the changes in the site, its just me rambling about moving from one website hosting service to another

ive been thinking of moving the website from neocities to another website hosting service, since for the past 2 days, i’ve been using visual studio code (with live preview) for all the coding instead of the neocities text editor. part of this is because visual studio code is wayyyy faster when it comes to updating the site than the neocities editor, in which you have to click save and hope that the site actually updates most of the time, because it doesnt.

but when i actually use visual studio code, putting all the local files to neocities is such a hassle, since you have to

delete every single file in the page

erase every line in the neocities index.html file (since you cant actually delete the file directly in neocities)

upload all the files in the root of the website

open local index.html and copy all the code

paste all the code in the neocities index.html file

and man i dont wanna do that shi, i just wanna press some buttons and itll deliver all the files i changed online.

(and if youre a neocities user, yeah i can just mount the site to the computer and edit my files there, but i have to pay a subscription service for that...)

luckily, i have a github account, a small knowledge of github, and an idea...

(sorry for the crudely made image, i pasted the image in Paintbrush but it was larger than the canvas, and i couldnt resize it lol)

anyway github pages!!! ive been wanting to use this service for a long time, even for my old site, but i had no idea how to use github.

luckily, ive been learning!!!

i know how to fork, commit, pull, and make a repository, and im technically a master at it now!! (get it because master)

i havent actually tried github pages yet, even as i’m typing this right now, but ill figure it out today...

if successful:

i will permanently delete the neocities account, as it will not be in use anymore...

the domain will be changed from sushiwt.neocities.org to sushiwt.github.io

this 88x31 button is now outdated

soo yeah... ill be moving from neocities to github pages!

- sushiwt <3