Sometime during my travels through old websites I came across Guestbookbutterflies, which was a collective that dedicated themselves to visiting and signing guestbooks. You had to apply to be visited and if your site passed muster then they would sign and leave a gift (which I think was a graphic of some sort). I thought that was such a neat idea.
Anyway, I hope you have fun on your guestbook journeying! I think it’s a great idea.
@DivergentRays the guestbook butterflies are such a fun concept! i’m now mulling over ideas for something similar… maybe a traveler’s journal theme or something instead of butterflies…
yes, i have one here, emma's guestbook it is just a form captured with javascript. the backend is running on supabase but i may opt to self host pocketbase instead
i wasn’t going to post it here yet but someone signed it recently so i may as well
just a heads up. you won’t really get any info that you submitted a comment, and it won’t show up right away. every few days i log into supabase and will approve comments that meet the criteria of being a decent human being
https://acyfactory.com/guestbook/
Even though it’s not very complicated code, I’m pretty proud of my guestbook since it’s one of the first things I coded that was out of the scope of the Wagtail tutorial, and I started it around the time that they announced 123guestbook (I think?) was closing so that made me feel good about my decision to not go static so I could be in charge of the dynamic elements of my website.
i have an atabook guestbook, though i haven’t figured out how to customize it fully yet so the stuff is readable =A= i might just have to take the L and find another background for it…
Ray, I didn’t see your comment earlier. I was a member of the Guestbook Butterflies. We were all women, and the group was created by Regina, in the Netherlands. She made the graphic gifts to leave in the guestbooks. Each butterfly had a list of sites to visit. It was good fun. But sadly, as personal websites faded away as people ran to Facebook and the like, it ended.