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TECHNICALLY this forum is connected to a kind-virtual pet set! Hope you enjoy your time here!

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How about adding some kind of personal space within user's profiles?

I have personal doubts about how many people would really use this - but its a cool idea and it should not be too hard to add! Iv been planning to add a CSS box that lets people apply their own private CSS across the forum; once I figure that out I should be able to use the same code to make this happen too

By the way, can our virtual pets get "blessed"? You mentioned web-fairs, and I agree we need more of those. Who's up for some brainstorming?

This is a cool idea! Someone could totally create a page that lets you uploaded an image or something and it gets blessed (maybe some visual effect is applied) and returned to you 

YouTube link and look at the post's preview, it just displays a blank rectangle.

Basically the situation is that the person who develops the YouTube embedding mod has some life related drama at the moment have they've not been able to update the mod in over a year - it needs to be replaced, but so far I have not found a replacement that works as well - Im looking into it though!

Recently Iv been binge watching Werner Herzog documentaries! - For those of you who don't know he's a film maker, documentary maker, philosopher and low key comedian (although its more comedy in the greek tragedy sense than in the funny sense) - some of his work can be very light hearted (like when he cooks and eats his shoes) but most of it is deeply profound; I love that contrast between depth and lightheartedness! 

Here is a kinda compilation of clips that I guess is a pretty good introduction:

It can be a bit hard to find his works - a few are on Criterion - others are on Netflix. He's about 80 now but there's still a bunch of new stuff he's making that Im super excited to see!

Into the Inferno (2016) - is one about volcanoes.
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016) - is about the invention of the internet and I think it might have partly been what inspired me when I first made my site!

Here's the birthplace of the internet clip:

He also did some amazing films like Fitzcarraldo (1982) which is about a man who tried to drag a steam ship over a mountain in order to fund the creation of an opera house in the Amazon jungle because he believes the Amazon needs Opera (its based on a true story).

In truth though I have only seen a small fraction of his films; so Im curious to here if anyone else enjoys them and if so do you have any recommendations? And if you don't know them, I encourage you to watch a few and let me know what you think! 

Hmmmm; there are lots of ways of doing galleries and I think there is no right or wrong way! It depends on what kind of images you wanna show, how many images you wanna have and who your audience is!

Do you have 10 or 100 images? Are they artworks, or photography? Do you want people to look at all of them, or just find a few? Do you just wanna show pictures seriously, or do you want it to be more fun and have picture frames and stuff?

iFrames can be good - its cool when you can focus on each picture without being overwhelmed, but it can also be a little claustrophobic and can make it hard to see all the pictures.

Im lazy and usually just dump everything in a list on a page and call it a day  but you can do better!
Hmmm I really need to do my frames tutorial 

How might I set a single font standardising all forum posts, despite the authors' font choice?

We don't have forum-side system at the moment; but you can still totally do it; here's instructions! 
https://forum.melonland.net/index.php?topic=7.msg7514#msg7514

I liked big bird when I was little! I had a HUGE (by little kid standards) puppet of him that was bigger than me - I gotta admit though when I see clips of him now I find him a bit annoying, but its still cool that hes a big yellow bird!

This is a very weird interview

Something I do a lot that no one else in my family seems to appreciate :omg:k: I like going to the supermarket wine section and finding the expensive wine thats been there for YEARS because nobody wants it and its probably corked - usually they discount it to like 1/3 the original cost. I think its fun taking the risk; sometimes its truly awful, but sometimes you get an amazing bottle! I enjoy the variety!

this might be existing already and i just can't find it, but a setting to turn off custom post font styles

This is a good suggestion, although it would require custom coding by me! (LOTS of work)

However if fonts are a big issue for anyone you can use this bit of css to force the font of all posts into a font you like:

Code

div .post div {
  font-family: sans-serif !important;
}

Just apply this with a custom CSS mod on your browser like this for Chrome or Firefox!

There are a few CSS snippets I use on almost every site Iv made; I figured Id share a few of the best here! Feel free to share your CSS snippets! 

Spin! Makes things spin!

Code

.spin {
  animation-name: spin;
  animation-duration: 10000ms;
  animation-iteration-count: infinite;
  animation-timing-function: linear;
}
@keyframes spin {
  from {
    transform: rotate(0deg);
  }
  to {
    transform: rotate(360deg);
  }
}

Hover Twist (like the MK Nav Bar)

Code

.twist {
  transition: 1s;
}
.twist:hover {
  transform: rotate(360deg);
}

Blink! Simulates the old <blink> tag!

Code

.blink {
  animation: blink-animation 0.95s steps(2, start) infinite;
}
@keyframes blink-animation {
  to {
    visibility: hidden;
  }
}

Center: Forces text centering on something (you can also make left right variants)

Code

.center {
  text-align: center !important;
}

Scrollbar styling - basic scrollbar styling on Chrome, Firefox and Safari

Code

* {
	scrollbar-color: #cd7c00 #000020;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar {
	background: #000020;
	width: 8px;
	height: 8px;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
	background: #000020;
}
::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb {
	background: #cd7c00;
	border-radius: 10px;
}

Bobbing: The bobbing animation used on MelonLand homepage!

Code

.bobbing {
  animation: bobbing 2s ease-in-out infinite;
  animation-direction: alternate;
}
@keyframes bobbing {
  0% {
    transform: translateY(10px);
  }
  100% {
    transform: translateY(-10px);
  }
}

#73 05/02/2023 - Iris DeMent - Let The Mystery Be

When I started my site there were so few people making resources for web revival sites (it was basically just AN Lucas) however as more and more people are making cool resources, its starting to make me think if there are ways we can give subtle credit to them?

Having a links page is great; but its a bit disconnected form the actual media - for example if someone makes a cool button gif that I use on my site - I cant really say "XX made the button gif that I used on X page and X page etc" thats just way to verbose!

Im also not really a fan of adding too many written credits to a page because its extra effort and it potentially interrupts the pages design.

BUT maybe there are other ways!

For example could we start a culture of naming files after their creator like "red-button-anlucas.gif" or maybe using the alt text "Link to my moose page - button made by XXX"? (see lunas comment :grin:smile: The idea would be simply that if someone was inspecting your code trying to learn from you, they could find out where you sourced some of your images.

I also have a more ambitious suggestion!

Code

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
[
 <!ATTLIST tag madeby CDATA #IMPLIED>
]>

This is a revision to the HTML !DOCTYPE that adds a new parameter to all HTML tags called "madeby" - it means its valid for you to do:

Code

<img src="button.gif" madeby="moose.com" />

The idea is that if everyone did this, we could create a script that would automatically generate credits pages for sites by searching for madeby tags - you could even make a browser plugin that shows a list of all the madeby tags on the page your browsing!



We could create our own list of custom web revival centric parameters like this; people could easily link this into their web pages to add extra functionality!


How do you like to do this? Do you think its important? Do you have a method you already use?

Im sort of in a similar situation too - all of my living situations are only temporary, they last a few months - I don't have any financial or other commitments; and I feel like most old friends have moved on, or are living their own lives - money is not really an issue in the short term, I could totally travel for a few months.. but I kinda feel like I already did that when I was younger!

I have plenty to do; working on my projects like this forum keeps me really busy and getting up every day is exciting because I know there's something cool I wanna do.. BUT at the same time; I find myself wondering what Im working towards.

Its great doing all these lil projects; but its also mostly just me working on my own, and I feel like I should be doing something bigger; I know I love making games and interactive projects, I don't really wanna do anything else! I have been interviewing for a cool job; that would definitely occupy me for a few years - but even then; I think I wanna start some big project; like a real games or digital art studio; I want something ambitious that brings real meaning and risk into my life.

It sounds like it might be a bit similer for you? I suppose a lot of people here are in the late 20s - early 30s; I think this is just what this age feels like