Neocities.org
What, if anything, are your Neocities "views" based on? It feels like an arbitrary number, it doesn't at all match up with the counter placed on the homepage.
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Merry Christmas, or whatever end-of-year kind of celebrations you do! It's stinking hot so I'm gonna throw myself into the ocean, my favorite place.
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sakana
2 years ago
Thank you! She was fun to play, and even though it's really complicated to do, I like drawing her water hair. ^^
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sakana
2 years ago
Decided to stop being lazy and start to actually upload image galleries for my OCs instead of just dumping an imgur link at the bottom of the page.
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sakana
2 years ago
Thank you very much! It's a mix of my own art and commissions/gifts from other people.
Need to edit page to add a NSFW warning to my Pillowfort link, sorry if I accidentally blasted anyone's eyeballs with NSFW art. PF bills itself as having strong NSFW controls (you can 100% switch off all adult content with a setting, it is set to this by default) but I just learned that this only applies to people with accounts. If you look at a PF page without being logged in/without an account, you see EVERYTHING.
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sakana
2 years ago
I would prefer it if you could only see 18+ stuff if you are logged in and have enabled the setting so that it's opt-in. But I understand why they didn't design it that way even if I don't like it.
ziggybeeps
2 years ago
How active is Pillowfort? I feel like I never see any activity there anymore, but I also joined a whiiile back
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sakana
2 years ago
Medium-active. Twitter's acquisition by Musk saw a bunch of people flood back to the site + new sign-ups, and they got something like 170% funding last month which is more than I've ever seen. But it's still small and slow-moving, it's no Tumblr.
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sakana
2 years ago
Dream logging is very hard, especially when you're compelled to write with full detail.
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sakana
2 years ago
Really long time since last mutuals button wall update, but done now, thank you for your support as usual.
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sakana
2 years ago
In the end, I felt like having a picrew representation of myself on my about was a bit lame... but now, putting my face here feels a little dangerous given the psychopaths that use Neocities lol.
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I batted for DeviantART for so many years but it's impossible to do anymore. The whole site's an AI art cesspit and the fact that they introduced their own generator (a SD fork trained on DA images, I think) feels like admitting this is the new direction they want the site to go.
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sakana
2 years ago
I'm not actually opposed to AI art, the part that bothers me is that on DeviantART, AI-generated artwork and handdrawn artwork aren't distinguished from one another, they show up alongside each other. On Pixiv, AI art is considered a different category and if you don't want to see it you can turn it off.
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sakana
2 years ago
Also there are tons of people who blatantly post stuff made in MidJourney and go "haha hey I'm new here do you like my digitial painting, I did it in like an hour :3"
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humanfinny
2 years ago
i literally just got back onto it since 2014 and things immediatly turned for the worst :( i also miss the old look
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healerboy1004
2 years ago
Same, I miss old dA so much. Or maybe just the old way of things? The constant demand for “new content” is so hostile to artists.
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dokodemo
2 years ago
wasnt DA bought by the same company who owns WIX? thats what i heard when they switched the layout, at least.
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No idea but I figured it must not be blocking web crawls/bot traffic.
i'm very curious if hotlinked images count as a "view" because there's no way i have 175k visitors to my site. it's gotta be from hotlinked art i've posted elsewhere getting loaded on someone's browser and counting as a view.
I don't trust it wholly either! It counts me refreshing the page as a view lol.
Definitely web crawlers are a part of it, but I didn't even consider hotlinked things potentially counting toward views - it would explain some of these crazy high numbers.