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by WobbuPalooza 897 days ago
I've enjoyed using Neocities for obscure amateur hobby content, translating 16th-19th C. parlor games that involve creating stories or doing a little light roleplaying: https://wobbupalooza.neocities.org/

One quirk that comes to mind is /whatever.html files automatically redirect to /whatever, so I guess you should treat the name without the .html as canonical

It is open source: https://github.com/neocities

Reasonably featureful: https://neocities.org/supporter

I don't use its developer API, but it has one: https://neocities.org/api

It's been a nice place to host a simple static site. On a personal level, I guess I could probably use GitHub pages just as well? I haven't really thought about it, but Neocities occupies a different niche--small, social, especially friendly to people learning about the web--that I've been happy building on.

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> https://neocities.org/supporter

For anyone like me who has no need for the $5/mo features but wishes to support the project - I now notice they have a page for donations.