Neocities on Polygon!

[Melooon]

I just noticed this when I was trying to figure out why I was getting some erratic views, but Neocities is on Polygon right now and a few sites have been mentioned (Including me ). Oooph as a game designer even being mentioned there is super exciting! Anyway you might enjoy the article!

https://www.polygon.com/23024357/neocities-social-media-alternative

[Obspogon]

it gave me a lot of sites to check out

[cinni]

I wanted to share the article here but you beat me to it! I'm always excited to see neocities in the news but this was even better - i recognized so many of the sites! :O i bet you could start a CV of articles citing melonking.net that aside, i thought this was a good brief intro to neocities for the uninitiated!

[pleb-hates-the-modern-web]

aaaa that's so cool! i wonder if we'll see some new friends on the forum here from polygon!

[Neonriser]

Wow! It’s nice to have the small web acknowledged by people in the tech and internet industry once in a while! It’s no wonder why I have hope for the futures of many online communities to come…

[BananaBoots]

That's so cool! I'll be definitely checking out the sites mentioned in the article (the ones I wasn't already familiar with anyway)

[CyberCat2000]

A bit of an update: it's not just Polygon that's talking about NeoCities: TechSpot's talking about it too! I feel like this could be the start of something big if TWO sites are talking about it...

[wygolvillage]

This happening while social media is downward spiralling more than usual... Could convince some people to join this side of the web. Which is pretty exciting!

[Guest]

I'm not sure how to feel about it. In one hand this means we could get more people making sites and interacting with others in a more personal way. On the other hand it could attract 'problematic' people. To me there's something more special about interacting with someone who found a site or chatroom on their own instead of going to it after reading about it.

[Melooon]

It's great to see neocities promoted - There is a quote from a Kyle Drake interview that says "Thoughtful people tend to be better contributors" and I think that's how Neocities has remained such a unique (and generally positive) space even though its seen enormous growth- making a site is hard work, and you don't do hard work unless it's towards something your really proud of - I want the world to see these sites that everyone is so proud of 

HOWEVER; I must point out one major complaint about that TechSpot article; they are not crediting the sites they have screenshotted- that's really really not ok - sites are not content of neocities, they are independent spaces and they should be treated as such