We only had a tiny bit of frost here (about 3 degrees at the lowest).

My aunt who is visiting Finland sent me this picture today though
(note for Americans - temp is in celsius)

OH ALSO, if you want the year to update itself every year you could do:

Code

var year = new Date().getFullYear();
var footText = "© " + year + " - My Rad Site";

A good question! You can apply this to anything you want across a site not just footers
Although, on the point of copyrights, I'm of the opinion that those are a feature of corporate websites and are not needed on personal sites, each to their own though!

To answer your question, if you use a static site generator you can do this pretty easily - Although I cant help much with that.

If your not using a site generator, include a script at the end of each page that updates the footer, then you just have to update the script to update every page. Its very fast to load, the downside is it does not update if people have scripts turned off.
HTML

Code

<footer id="foot">:grin:efault footer text for people without scripts</footer>
<script src="footUpdate.js?v=0"></script>

Script

Code

var footText = "© 2022 - My Rad Site";
var foot = document.getElementById( 'foot' );

window.onload = function() {
 foot.innerHTML = footText;
}

OR You could also put an iframe in your footer to a default footer page. This is a bit slower as it needs to loads multiple pages (your main page and the footer page) but it still works if people have scripts turned off.

So my questions are what is a game and what will games become?

In the past a game was made up of a fixed set of files that you'd get on a cart or disc, that was the game and you'd play it.
Today, games are a fixed set of files you tend to download, that are then often updated with MANY extra files as patches or expansions.
Tomorrow? I think perhaps the idea of a fixed set of files making up a game may no longer exist. Games will be made up of data pulled from many sources and combined into quasi-fixed-worlds.

However is the game of the past the same as the game of the future? Nope! They are different things evolving in different directions.

All that is a long winded way of explaining why I actually think cloud gaming is potentially great. However I don't see it as a replacement to traditional games, cloud gaming will allow games to evolve into something totally new, the traditional games of today will continue to exist as an almost separate media form.

Today though I agree with xandra; as an additional way to access your games, it can be really handy (Assuming you have the internet to make it work) I would never buy a game on a purely streaming service, but having the option to download or stream is good.

Is this your project?
If so what inspired you to start a public directory? and Id love to hear more about what kind of sites would suit it and how they might be organized.

Happy new year!

  :'( :omg:k:

My resolution is to be able to transform into a duck (and back) at will!
.. failing that, I wanna make a new life after the last 2 years of mess and focus on cool new projects

Minus a few broken emoji, it works really well on my first gen iPad

Code

let v = "hello";
let roor = "" + "world"
let mrSpace = " "
let daWord = "";

for(let x = 11 ; x >= 0 ; x--) {
 if(x >= 5) {
   daWord = v.charAt(x - v.length) + daWord;
 }
 if(x == 5) {
   daWord += mrSpace
 }
 if(x <= 5) {
   daWord += roor.charAt(roor.length - x);
 }
}

alert(daWord);

Another high quality question, thank you for asking!

What inspired you/made you want to create a personal website?

I wish I could remember WHY I was thinking about sites, but I remember one day thinking about all the free web hosts that used to exist and how they were kinda crappy. I wanted to know if any still existed so I was searching free web hosts and found neocities, after looking at a few sites I was like. I CAN DO THIS! It was mainly an excuse to post old projects and junk I had that didn't really fit anywhere else in my life.

I think LGR (Youtuber), Hackers (1995 movie), Keep on Movin (the song by Five) and Mr Rogers Neighborhood (when it streamed on Twitch) and stuff I made when I was 12; were all some of the big influences in my life when I was first making it.

What are some challenges you've faced in the process of creating and maintaining a site?

So my site is now over 5 years old and a lot has happened in my life since then. The biggest challenge has been maintaining it and keeping its spirit alive, while allowing it to change and grow as Iv changed and grown. Many people do total redesigns when they feel they have outgrown a site, I never wanted to do that, I wanted the site to grow with me.

Weird as it might sound, I find the community can be hard! I avoided it for most of my sites history and this year has been an experiment. I think sometimes my site speaks for me better than I do, words have never been my friend

Imagine your site five years from now (even if you may or may not be running the same site five years down the line, or may have closed it out as a completed project)... What do you think it will look like, or what would you want it to look like?

SO, there have been a few times when I felt my site was ":grin:omg:ne" I had nothing new to add to it, sure I could add new features and pages, but I could no longer expand on the vision of what it was, adding new pages would not really make it better. I kinda feel that way at the moment, and that's ok! Every now and then I do discover a new dimension to move into, but also just adding pages for cool stuff is fine.
I always wanted to make my site into a kind of theme park, a virtual disneyland

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In response to some others, thanks for sharing your histories, its interesting to read!

@Nightdrift, I agree about lowering the barrier of entry, I also think neocities ligitmizes these sites, lots of people are doing it so you dont feel like a weirdo making sites on your own :omg:k:
@cinni, yeah getting away from professionalism was a HUGE draw to personal sites
@m15o, Uggghhh 88x31 buttons!
@Cobra, Nynorn!
@Icelogist, Wix is a good point, Id like to see a list of site builders as easy as Wix that are good and free.
@di Agreed! Not feeding big companies is a great feeling

#22 - 27/12/2021 - Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger

It's always incredible to think about the amount of device sizes our websites will be seen on.

On that note there is a flip side; Iv heard that some parts of my site (particularly the games) have big issues on ultra wide monitors when people have their browser in full-screen. Apparently when you make some bits very wide, links move up under text and you cant click them anymore. So supporting different widths is an issue whether you go up and down!

Didn't want to start a new thread necessarily, but did want to give a quick shout out for the new Dreamy theme, it's a cool new addition! It's endearing that the two themes have kind of naturally flowed into a "dark mode"/"light mode", whether that was intentional or not.

EDIT: I didn't realize that in this theme, clicking the Message Icon on a published post...would let you actually change the message icon too? I'm...assuming it's a feature from the base theme by Simple Machines? Or was it something y'all took the time to code in? Whichever the case, it's neat.

This is cool! Cinni's theme is modded from the modern simple machines theme, where as the default is modded from simple machines classic, SO the new one will have some newer features. Also I was thinking more along the lines of high contrast v low contrast, but light dark works too!

Its a good question and always worth a debate, thanks for asking!

So I have metrics on a few of my sites that says what device people use; and what Id say is IT DEPENDS. My personal rule of thumb is that if it works for 80% of users, that's good enough. My main site gets 12% mobile traffic, so that means it works for 88% of users on desktops with no mobile support at all (that said I do try and have SOME mobile support just so its not totally broken).

search.melonking.net gets about 30% mobile traffic, so its more important in my mind to support mobile for that site. I think that's because its a service or utility and people use those more on phones, although that said this forum only get 11% mobile traffic.

I think the biggest question is always, does this info neeeed to be on a phone? A moody music exploration site does not need to be on a phone, and recipe site prob does because people might want to use the phone to read in the kitchen.

#21 - 21/12/2021 - Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons

#20 - 19/12/2021 - Marvel83' - Flowers of Edinburgh