CHEAPCORE is back! (and so am I :DD)

[chipyowo]

Helloo!! How are y'all doin? It's been a long time since I've surfed around the indieweb waves TmT Life as always doin its thing, you know. I missed the forums, though, so I'm planning to com here more often :))

Anyway, for now I'm just passing by to announce that, after almost 6 months of inactivity, CHEAPCORE (my personal website) is finnaly BACK! Hell yeah!



And so are the website's webventures! Liminalia, my webfiction adventure, is back with near 100 new pages! New updates start today, so stay tuned!

You can read about the reopening process in my new blog entry, I won't stretch mylsef here.

Thank you! And please, present yourselves, I want to meet cool, new people again!

https://cheapycore.com/

[Dequake]

Really really cool! It must be fun getting to collaborate with other people when working on a site. Site-building is one of those things I've always seen as a very lonely, frantic work that one must perform ritually and in solitaire in ones own magic bedroom, but of course that's not the case. It can be just as much a collaborative effort as anything else.

Took a peak at your EP as well. Very nice. Quite nostalgic soundscape, brings me back to different times.

Big fan of the clown aestheticism as well. Clowns are my favorite creature.

[chipyowo]

First of all, thank you so much! I really appreciate it :))

Secondly, I would like to ramble a bit, because your commentary on collaborative work is really interesting, and has been bugging my mind for quite a while. Don't take it as a response lol I'm just trying to make sense of things mostly for myself. Feel free to read, though!

During the whole time me and tsc have been working on CHEAPCORE, this question wouldn't let my mind: can CHEAPCORE is still be considered a "personal website"? And by that i mean the novel sense commonly associated with the image of the indieweb movement: just one, single person with barely to no knowledge on HTML, crafting worlds from inside their bedroom.

The answer to THAT question would be, obviously, no. I don't think my website is a "personal website" anymore. It has deviated far from that concept. But, in a way, hasn't changed a bit on the concept in which it was originally proposed.

From the start, I made the website with one purpose in mind: tell stories. The webventures are still a format in construction, but take heavilly influence from other serialized works, specially MSPA (aka Homestuck). As far of now, my first webventure is still pretty much just a MSPFanAdventure, but I want to explore this concept far more, in ways that dwell way more in the realm of webart than webcomics.

But, in my way to achieve that, I stumbled across to problems: first of all, I don't know crap about HTML, nor have the time to learn it (I mean, I DO have "time", but it would take TOO MUCH "TIME", if you get what I mean). Second, if I decided to do everything alone, I would eventually reach a point where, by keeping the full-indie format, the website would be a hellish labyrint of broken hyperlinks and insanely messed server bullshit. I wouldn't be able to keep it still, and it would probably, eventually, die.

So I decided that, for the sake of efficiency, and for me to be able to actually CREATE things, instead of trying to do something I DON'T KNOW how to, it would be wiser to just call someone who actually KNOWS IT to help me do the """"dirty work""""". Aka hella cool tech wizard tsc-tsc-tsc.

I kind of miss the whismy of coding it all by myself, but the website has so many cool things now! Features that I wouldn't even be able to CONCEPTUALIZE, now have became tangible, ACTUALLY REAL stuff. And I couldn't be more happy, because now I can use all the gained time - that back then I would spend putting up pages in a really unneficient way on the server - making MORE pages.

So, yeah! Sometimes just call for help actually is really - well, helpful. I think it depends on what are your goals with the project you're working on. If CHEAPCORE was just a portfolio kinda thing (as it kinda was, last year), I probably wouldn't need help.

But I think now it is more of an art project than an actual website. So, in this case, all the help is appreciated, ESPECIALLY on things I don't have the single clue on where the hell do I even begin to make this possible.