Wow! Update! After 10,000 years! I've actually been working on this site offline for... oh God, a couple years now. As you can see, the update I just pushed is mostly a clean up of the same day it's been stuck at since 2023. I'm not gonna lie, I was actualyl feeling pretty good about the progress I've made, but now that I've gone ahead and pushed the update, I'm second guessing if Neocities is the best platform for this kind of thing. It's not impossible, but with how I structured the back end, it's actually kind of clunky to update. I figured once I did all the work of getting all the data and building all the packages, it would be a simple manner of a few seconds everyday to update daily. But it makes sense; NeoCities isn't set up for content machines, even single person autism powered content machines. Guess you can expect to wait a few years for the next update, but we'll see if I end up going all the way with this thing. 6 days worth of pages built, 359 remaining LOL
I wasn't expecting to stay up all night working on the new site design, but that's what happened. It's not exactly all new, actually most of the design elements are exactly the same. I smushed everything down because the wide open empty space was weirding me out. I can't really explain it, maybe I felt out of place considering what feels like 99% of sites on Neocities cram everything in between massive margins. Either way I'm happy with how the change turned out! I also added a lot of little doodads like buttons, banners, and marquees, all of which are pretty popular here. I also spruced up the backgrounds, added some color here and there, so now everything feels a lot more lively! Everything also feels much heavier to load, but the Neocities servers are holding up strong! I shouldn't really throw out estimation dates since I don't think I've ever held myself to a deadline, but I think the date database will be done around March/April depending on how hard school whoops me this semester. I haven't been in school in over a year, so I'm pretty rusty with my studying schools. So that outta be fun. Anyways yeah, once the database is complete I'll start moving all the info into HTML documents, and depending on how long that takes, we'll say this site will be fully functioning by next summer! Look forward to it!