SiTE UPDATE LOG

an attempt at fixing whats broke

August 10, 2026

hi. so this website has been in a horrible state recently. on mobile, the layout of the index page has been broken for at least a year now. not only that, but the visitor counter along with the "last update date" things have been broken for some time.
that ends today. because guess what? i actually got off my butt and fixed some things. let me extend 2 changes that took less than 30 minutes total to implement into at least 150 words:

visitor counter

i've been using dannarchy's Native Neocities Hit-Counter for both the visitor count on the homepage and the last site updated widget. this worked well, until a few months ago, where it suddenly broke. this is due to the proxy server needed to load the counts breaking. to quote the tutorial page:

As of the moment, the proxy server needed for this tutorial to work is offline. If/when I can get a replacement host that can handle a server-side API call, I will update everyone.

i found out about 404city's visitor counter widget, which still worked. thankfully, 404city gave a link to a Pastebin containing instructions to fix it. basically you have to make a Cloudflare worker, paste the code given in the paste into it, and change the URL for the widget on your site to the worker URL.
thanks to this, both widgets now work! yay! thank you so much to 404city, as well as whoever wrote the paste (as the author isn't given).

layout

now on mobile, the page layout will at least be viewable. i can't say that its the best looking experience, but its better than usual. some elements still clip out of the page, but those elements aren't text boxes.
maybe one day i will make a proper responsive design, or do better mobile optimization. but for right now, this is what you get. don't throw a fit!

into da futureeee

a look into the future, i wanna work on adding more stuff again to this site. however, i probably said that last time and look where we ended up. sadly, big tech has successfully made me unable to do anything other than play idle games and watch youtube. i don't even know what i do all day! help!

NO MORE THANKS

June 13, 2025

first site update in 6 months and its me talking about how im removing something. lol.
on the bottom of the credits page, i used to have a section thanking everyone for following, with a link to their 88x31 button (if they had one). however, im removing this section, and there are a few reasons why:

• paranoia: caring about how many people follow you is dumb, and this was really starting to mess with me. seeing that people were unfollowing me was a little upsetting, even if i never interacted with them
• maintenance: sites change addresses, accounts deactivate, buttons change. some people who follow don't have a button yet, but say it will be coming soon. so should they forever not get a button just because they happen to not have one at the time of me checking thier site? how would i handle people who link to my site who can't follow me because they don't use neocities?
• laziness: it just took a lot of effort to keep this section running, especially for something most people wouldn't see.

so, now its gone. this is possibly the first time you're even hearing about this section in the first place. i will (hopefully) begin working on moving some sites i like into the directory.
anyways, hi. im still alive i think. new stuff that isn't a blog post coming soon, hopefully.