I got inspired by @CaffeineAndLasersâs library post and wrote a library post about other ways libraries are low-stakes.
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time for me to get lynched for this opinion
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The problem is, that freedom they promise is more of a mirage than reality. Youâre limited to what you can do, with things like HTML, CSS, and maybe some JS.
Youâre not wrong. I donât find Neocities suitable for my website, either. I donât really need PHP support; the lack of SSH/SFTP access is my dealbreaker.
But there are lots of people who either used to be on Geocities â or wish they had been but missed out because they were born too late â who are content with Neocities. I, in turn, am content to let them enjoy it.
Of course, with VPSes being that cheap perhaps itâs time to migrate away from Nearly Free Speech, but itâs comfortable there.
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Just as people are free to like it, and should be let to enjoy it, I also have a right of opinion and I should be able to post it. The main problem with NC isnât their free plan, itâs their paid one. Itâs overly restricted, they fr should give their paying customers more freedomâŚ
And yeah VPS is kinda cheap now.
1 GB RAM, 1vCPU, 25 GB, 1 TB bandwitdh is about 5 bucks almost anywhere now. Which is more than enough for a small(er) website. Shared hosting is probably still better in this regard, but getting a VPS is more and more worth it.
Hell, free oracleâs VPS is so good. Iâve never had a problem, Iâve used them for hosting purposes, for years now.
The thing is that there are VAST numbers of users (like me) who donât want PHP, Python, or Node.js and wouldnât know what to do with them anyway. Neocities is designed to be entry-level simple, which it does very well. Being mad at it for that seems kind of like being mad at IHOP for not having a buffet.
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im not mad though, i just made a post why i donât like it. if you feel like its sufficent for you, good for you.
my main issue is their PAID plan, because for that same money you could get more value elsewhere.
im not here to advocate what one should or shouldnât use. i just made a post why i personally dont like it.
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I think with a lot of neocities users this aspect is mostly due to ignorance. (Hell I didnât know hosting got that cheap! Honestly if I knew better about hosting & the like I wouldâve probably done that instead of host mine on neocities.)
I totally get the frustration though. Itâs like seeing someone buy a bundle of bananas for $5 while you know that they couldâve gotten a whole quality assortment of fruits (Including a bundle of bananas.) for the same price at another store.
I liked your post, feels oddly cathartic in a way.
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you totally get it! if youre using their free plan, u probably donât need or want better. just like how @guin said. BUT if youâre going to pay, you deserve less restrictions and more freedom, even if you never use it.
I actually have a supporter account, and I donât feel that I need More Fancy Stuff to justify the cost. If I did, Iâd go to one of those other places, like I have before.
Not everyone who sees things differently from you is stupid.
I donât recall writing or implying otherwise, but whatever.
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when did i imply as such? i never called anyone stupid lol
you didnt im just saying
Cheers! I never even thought about the privacy aspect, but im glad youâve got your patrons backs
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In celebration of season 2 starting today, I posted something about Andor. Not terribly polished due to health stuff, but not bad?
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Love it! The description of the people of Ferrix holding their processions how they want to regardless of what was permitted reminds me of anarchist calisthenics (small acts of disobedience to build the muscle for bigger resistance).
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anonymity, gender, and facebook group hell - what is says on the tin I guess.
Still fleshing out writing in this format and itâs bringing back my circa 2001 LiveJournal post composition muscles. Very creaky.
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Itâs not much, but I wrote⌠something.
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ÂŻ_(ă)_/ÂŻ
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But stop complaining about how much you hate it and how youâre taking âpsychic damageâ from how âinanely pleasantâ you found a book thatâs explicitly meant to be safe comfort reading. The return slot is right there, folks.
I donât blame you for being frustrated, because it sounds like youâve been to r/fantasy on Reddit. For the most part, the only sort of fantasy that seems to get read over there is grimdark or Brandon Sanderson, and the respective fandoms there can be just a bit intolerant of material that isnât to their taste.
Tell you this, though: I suspect the only cozy speculative fiction Iâve read lately is by Becky Chambers. Itâs not my usual, but the lady can write and Iâll occasionally recommend her to people looking for a cozy read. (Also, Syou Ishidaâs Weâll Prescribe You a Cat)
Then again, C. J. Cherryhâs Foreigner novels are my idea of a cozy read. Mainly because the protagonist generally manages to resolve crises by talking to people. There are also tea parties in space and (later on) adventures in babysitting.
But I donât get why people canât just let other people enjoy things that they themselves donât like. I mean, Iâm not into Brandon Sanderson. Heâs not bad, and if I was just discovering sf/f/horror I might even like Sanderson. Apparently heâs even a decent guy as well as a competent and popular author.
However, I think Sandersonâs target audience are the sort of people who would have read Terry Brooks, David & Leigh Eddings, or Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (of Dragonlance fame) back when I was a teenager in the 1990s getting my mind blown by Glen Cookâs The Black Company, Michael Moorcockâs The Revenge of the Rose, or (courtesy of my first girlfriend) C. J. Cherryhâs Morgaine Chronicles starting with Gate of Ivrel, or C. L. Mooreâs âShambleauâ (a sf take on the Medusa myth).
Iâm not really into Sandersonâs stuff for the same reason I never really got into Dragonlance or Terry Brooksâ Shannara (though if he ever wrote Outlaw Bikers of Shannara I might buy a copy for noveltyâs sake). Itâs not bad; it just isnât for me. Likewise, itâs a pleasant surprise for me when somebody reads Morgaine, or The Black Company, or Amber, or digs into Moorcockâs multiverse (the OG!).
I certainly wouldnât begrudge people who might read my own fiction and decide that theyâre not into it. I wrote it for myself first, my wife second, and everybody else dead last, and itâs self-indulgent as only fiction written by somebody with a high-paying day job can be.
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This mentality of obsessing over something you hate always puzzled me.
Iâve seen it before with tv shows people donât like but end up obsessing over, some cases even people whoâve long since changed or were unlucky enough to get harassment & libel thrown at them, idk how people arenât burnt out & tired of hating something all the time.
IMO it takes more effort to hate something over & over again instead of moving on.
More book related:
Idk if itâs just me but reacting to readers like this just ends up driving them away from reading published fiction rather than get them into âuncozy booksâ that they like. If that happened to me Iâd probably avoid reading fantasy altogether because my âpeersâ wouldnât consider it ârealâ fantasy. Personally I think it would be better to recommend books that could ease them into âuncozyâ fantasy if theyâre still on about that, but again thatâs if the reader even wants to get into that stuff.
In the end itâs 100% the readers choice in what they read/want to read not anyone else.
Unrelated:
Also shout out to the many times where I see people hating something I like using the seriesâs tag, with so much unnecessary vitriol that Iâd mistake them for a badger.
When at itâs worst it was mid.
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