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The Neocities Blog
Company blog · blog.neocities.orgweb
The Neocities Blog is the company blog at blog.neocities.org, writing about web. Since 2013, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web (2015)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the Neocities blog for updates on the free static web host, including transparency reports, infrastructure and CDN posts, IPFS, and the project's humanist, non-commercial stance.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Official Neocities Blog - news, events, and what we're working on.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-24
- HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web (2015)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-06-09
- Making the Web Fun Again (2013)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-11-12
- Making the web fun again (2013)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-28
- Introducing Neocities Site Tipping2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-13
- NeoCities now has IPFS DNS support2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-08
- /default-ssl.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-23
- /blog/2017/03/26/huge-space-increase2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-12
What Hacker News says?
I just asked a few people on the "supporters" list who said they had "nothing to do with it", after trying to figure out more about it's core and see if I could get added to the list myself (my opinions on the NSA dragnet crap are well documented, I do not live in fear of them: http://blog.neocities.org/making-the-web-fun-again.html ). I'm starting to think they just got a list of people they believed might support…
Comment linking /making-the-web-fun-again.html
on “Pardon Snowden”Submitted HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web (2015) as a story · 467 points
HN discussionFWIW I just donated[1] USD 100 to neocites.org - not that I took any of your comments here as soliciting for donations. They're of course not meant to go towards just SSL, but I'm sure a handful of people here with an actual Software Engineer income can chip in the remaining 400. With the wonderful work you have been doing with this project (even if I don't host anything on it myself, I'm much too much of a masochis…
Comment linking /open-company-progress-report-2014.html
on “Leaving Beta, New Sponsors”Submitted Making the web fun again (2013) as a story · 170 points
HN discussionI wanna say neocities already builds on top of IPFS. https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2015/09/08/its-time-for-the-...
Comment linking /blog/2015/09/08/its-time-for-the-distributed-web.html
on “Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s”Submitted Introducing Neocities Site Tipping as a story · 42 points
HN discussionhttp://blog.neocities.org/ points to it (incorrectly, but it tries), at least. I wonder if that's user created or not.
Comment linking /
on “Making the web fun again”Submitted IPFS: HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the distributed, permanent web as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAnd the founder of Neocities thinks it's time to instate a distributed web https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2015/09/08/its-time-for-the-...
Comment linking /blog/2015/09/08/its-time-for-the-distributed-web.html
on “Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?”Submitted Cleaner Links for Web Pages as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFrom what I understand the motivation behind neocities is more political (humanist) than commercial. Also it's fully open-source (the data could easily be hosted anywhere else for cheap). You can read more about their stance on their blog: https://blog.neocities.org/
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?”Submitted Making the Web Fun Again (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHi! I started Neocities. I read HN regularly. Neocities was actually launched and bootstrapped on HN about 3 years ago, and donations from HN users bankrolled the first year of operating it. Things have been going really well, the site is growing and still sustains it's own existence through donations and supporter accounts. I still work on the site heavily. We're launching some big features soon (more space, Github…
Comment linking /feed.xml
on “Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot”Submitted Introducing Neocities Site Tipping as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNeocities [0] does all of this! - It's free (though you can become a supporter and get some extra benefits) [1] - It's fast, since it uses it's own CDN. [2] - It's secure, all pages support SSL, even with custom domains. [3] - It has a command line tool [4] that can be wrapped to automate upload of pages, or used in a Git hook. - It has a plethora of learning resources [5]. [0] https://neocities.org [1] https://neoc…
Comment linking /default-ssl.html
on “Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours”Submitted NeoCities now has IPFS DNS support as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSo glad the project is still going strong! Still waiting eagerly for more transparency reports like: http://blog.neocities.org/open-company-progress-report-2014.... (Apart from keeping the free and open html+css web of old alive, I think this part is the most interesting thing about the whole project. A large reason for why I've donated in the past - and I'd be surprised if that doesn't go for some other donors as w…
Comment linking /open-company-progress-report-2014.html
on “Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?”Submitted IPFS DNS Support as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou're welcome! I'm a happy supporter and have used it in the classroom as a no-fuss just-get-started option a few times. (BTW, the list on https://blog.neocities.org/ seems outdated - it doesn't mention that SSL article for example) > Well, except for the advertising one. What about the five dollars per month one?
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?”Submitted Introducing the Neocities CLI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI have a soft spot for Neocities, which is trying to be everything we loved about Geocities, but for a modern age: https://neocities.org/ ZERO ADVERTISEMENTS , even for the free plan. Supports only static hosting, is free for 100mb websites with bandwidth of 50GB per month, or five dollars per month for 10,000mb with 2TB and a number of other extra features. EDIT: As mentioned by detaro, custom domain only supported…
Comment linking /default-ssl.html
on “Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?”Submitted Neocities Is Blocked by Bing as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> For example, we figured out how to run our own global anycast network for "cheap". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13445618 > With this launch, and our recently deployed 11-datacenter global anycast caching CDN, Neocities becomes a world-class web hosting service, proving you can still make building a web site fun and easy without sacrificing performance, and without being forced to figure out how to use esot…
Comment linking /blog/2017/03/26/huge-space-increase
on “GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet”Submitted Making the Web Fun Again (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhy not use neocites?: https://neocities.org/ Not only do they provide all the good stuff from geocites, but they're a radically open company (not just in the open source sense, but that too): https://blog.neocities.org/open-company-progress-report-2014...
Comment linking /open-company-progress-report-2014.html
on “The modern Internet sucks: Bring back Geocities”Submitted Making the Web Fun Again (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPlease do this: > We’ll be doing some deep dives into our new infrastructure in the future, including discussing how we built our own anycast network ( https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2017/03/26/huge-space-increa... )
Comment linking /blog/2017/03/26/huge-space-increase
on “Ask HN: Who’s using Ruby for web development, without Ruby on Rails?”Submitted Making the Web Fun Again (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMore importantly, these directions don't work anymore: https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2017/08/07/ipfs-dns-support
Comment linking /blog/2017/08/07/ipfs-dns-support
on “Neocities removes pages about IPFS”Submitted The Net Neutrality Supporters Plan as a story · 1 points
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