NeoCities

From IndieWeb


NeoCities is a free website hosting silo in the spirit of defunct silo GeoCities (Yahoo shutdown in 2009) that looks like a stepping stone to getting started on the IndieWeb.

From their home page:

Create your own free website. You get 10 MB of space to make whatever you’d like with HTML, CSS, JS, IMG, TXT, and MD files.

The free tier includes 1GB of storage as of 2017-03-26. [1]

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GHOST PARTY πŸ‘»πŸŽ‰

Marty McGuire runs a website for improv project GHOST PARTY πŸ‘»πŸŽ‰ at https://ghostparty.today/

LuLinks

Created and maintained by KMF as a directory for the Lu & the Bally Bunch fandom. Located at https://kmfstudiosarchives.neocities.org/latbb

  • Uses GeoCities inspired aesthetics (webring, 88x31 button, guestbook, hit counter, "This page hosted by..." boilerplate)
  • toki pona!
  • Uses some external services (StrawPoll for polls, Bravenet for guestbook, WebsiteOut for hitcounter, webri(.)ng for webring)

Features

As of 2022-03-29 [2]

  • No advertising
  • Free tier
    • 1 GB storage
    • 200 GB bandwidth
    • neocities.org subdomain
  • Supporter tier
    • 50 GB storage
    • 3000 GB bandwidth
    • Custom domain support
  • REST api
  • Default HTTPS using Let's Encrypt

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Tools

Mastodon-to-Neocities tool created by tsxyz. Workaround for Neocities free tier's CSP restriction. This tool automates download and upload of your Mastodon feed to Neocities.

Articles

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