Thank you!!!

Yup, one of the most impressive websites on the internet in 2026

Hopefully you're doing okay after all that. My partner's power is out too and the electric company told him that it might not come back in his area until 11pm Wednesday.

I got the same text, fuuuuuuuck

My stupid ass was driving in it last night 😭 I'm ok tho, just lots of down trees on the roads. I thankfully still have power

yeah i just had a really bad storm nothing else although im closer to nj than lancaster

I want to talk about how to find your place on here, instead of getting discouraged and abandoning your site. The creative fulfillment potential on Neocities is way higher than anywhere else, but learning HTML/CSS/JS can be tough, and all one probably wants is to get good enough at it to be noticed by others. It's tragic when I find abandoned profiles of people who never find friends, especially because you SHOULDN'T

feel like you need to catch up to the mega-talented users on Special Sauce to feel valued. But something I've noticed I've been doing is following people if they regularly leave comments on my feed posts or other's, regardless of how their site looks. I've also found it helpful whenever someone I follow leaves a comment under that auto-generated thumbnails post saying what changes they made, as it helps me find

what's new that I can interact with and reply to. You can also leave nice messages directly on people's pages, but I've found it feels 1000x more affirming when someone comments on existing posts, since it's a reminder that someone is listening and actually cares. If you show everyone you're listening with the comments system, you are bound to finally find that feeling of belonging on here.

You should also still keep working on your site design and manually finding new sites to follow too, but I hope this extra advice helps anyone new on here to find great people. So if you're feeling discouraged, please keep trying because Neocities is worth it!! (Sorry this is so long but this is REALLY important)

Yesss this is absolutely the creative spirit of neocities and the indieweb as a whole. Community >>> popularity

well said, even though i sometimes feel guilty when i follow a new website without leaving comments. maybe because i haven't got used to this social media aspect of the neocities, much less i used one before. but discovering sites and using them as inspiration is what kept me doing this for two years (unbelievable!), even if i update my site sparsely.

Yes! Talking to people and being supportive is such a big deal! Everyone here is so nice, there's no real sense in being shy.

also hey dont feel pressured to push out content all the time. just Interact with ppl and shit and you'll get traction. but also yknow the sites not going anywhere. take your time.

That's one way to look at it. I'd take the negative version: I still have 6 months to put up with! Just kidding, I don't pay attention to the date.

SCARY

Don't speak of this

I can't wait til 2001!

stop

and no flying cars :peensive:

to me (an optimist), the year is half full

I feel we should all get an award for making it halfway through this year

Time to fire up the Christmas Spotify playlist!

Thenother half is gonna feel like a whole nother yearnon its own lol

I could’ve swear the two eid holidays were yesterday. what? what happened?

Do not say such things. I am scared now

Thank you!

get bread today

I am so jealous of those who live where there are fireflies. I have seen them maybe thrice.

Hard to do with a phone, you ideally need a DSLR, high ISO and long shutter time ought to do it

Bugs are pretty underrated creatures, it's honestly pretty sad how so many people have the instinct to fear them