Blog Post Number 1!

Why did I do the Neocities website? Because their premise of giving me to power to make a website sounds great! Also, it is free. When you look at what I call Squarespace likes (a better name probably exists somewhere) they feel heavy for what they are. Not simple and at least for the case of Wix pure HTML was this odd box that didn't feel good. It probably had its reasons in their easy-to-use mindset. Why I needed a website? I really just wanted a place where I can put mathematical proofs so why not share them. Of course, that portion of the website is not yet done and you know I kind of want to have fun with this website and make silly things (if my to-do list didn't give that away already).

I really would like to make a random button that links a person to a random Neocities site. I haven't yet figured out how to randomly generate valid URLs. I could just generate a random string and try. However, this would mean if a 404 is returned then I would need to generate another one. What are the odds that a random string is a site? Probably too low a number so there would be several failed attempts which isn't really smart. Also, I should have a blacklist just to lessen a number of sites that are bullshit. But so far websites that have been cool are this,this,this, and this.

I have a couple "problems" with Neocities. The first one is rather minor. What if I need more than 1GB of storage. One could update (although the supporter page is a bit misleading since it is 1GB vs 20000MB.proof) or I could upload some resources to another site. Not really a big issue. The second problem is that in the website editor you can't rename your files. Why I can't do that?!!

Third is that I don't see my website when I search for it in Neocities. I had to turn off the 18+ mark and then I find my site under the mathematics tag. When I toggled the mark back on my site wasn't on the list. So if my aim was to create a website that has math proofs why toggle that thing on in the first place? Because I want to have the ability to do this.

This isn't something I want to do often. I just want to have the power to do so. Maybe that is a dumb reason to shoot myself into the foot by having no visibility, but that is more important to me. I can do anything I want. However, since Neocities doesn't allow the search of the 18+ content (or do since the porn tag exists) maybe I should try not just making a random button but better search functionality. It really sucks that there isn't an option to search 18+ content. Although Google didn't come up with anything so maybe that content doesn't exist. A lot of the content here is a bit lacking. Hopefully, I can (and have the willpower to) improve that.