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Re:Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot by vr46 on Friday January 20, 2017 @02:26PM (#13446324)
Are you going to put a watermark in the bottom corner of user pages? :D That was the biggest controversy I remember back then!
Re:Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot by kyledrake on Friday January 20, 2017 @03:11PM (#13446623)
N E V E R.

And no advertising on sites, ever. This is our golden rule.

My goal is to never make any changes to other people's sites. The only exception I'm giving myself is for an extreme emergency, such as a major security problem. It's never come up, I doubt it ever will. During the SSL transition there were a few sites I helped convert to SSL, but that was with permission from the site owner.

I remember the watermarks. They sucked.

Re:Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot by vr46 on Friday January 20, 2017 @06:20PM (#13447749)
You could have an opt-in so people could participate in "neighbourhood celebrations" and all show a ribbon for a particular event, say, TimBL's birthday or something, like Google Doodles.

Either way, this is bloody awesome, good luck with it all.

Re:Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot by DanBC on Friday January 20, 2017 @04:17PM (#13447048)
I'd be happy if there was an option that allowed you to "skimlink" (or similar) my tiny neocities site.
Re:Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot by dkresge on Saturday January 21, 2017 @09:01AM (#13450047)
Ha, the "geobug" -- pretty advanced for the time I thought. And while still annoying, it was much better than the full page interstitial ad.