Name one small change that would ruin the retro web for you

[shevek]

I would make you watch ads before you can access a site on Neocities, or the forum

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[Melooon]

or the forum

Ohhh hmmmm; this is an idea Maybe not ads.. but I could redirect all outbound forum links to a mystical pool that you must contemplate before proceeding!

You'd have to sit perfectly still and not move your mouse for a full 30 seconds; otherwise it deems you unprepared and resets!

[SilkSkull]

Ohhh hmmmm; this is an idea Maybe not ads.. but I could redirect all outbound forum links to a mystical pool that you must contemplate before proceeding!

You'd have to sit perfectly still and not move your mouse for a full 30 seconds; otherwise it deems you unprepared and resets!

You can visit my site only after you have pondered my orb 

I'd make neocities have a subscription sevice in order to be used. No removing it because I want users websites just to show an error message when they haven't paid just to make it that much worse 

[Melooon]

'd make neocities have a subscription sevice in order to be used.

Or better yet; Neocities could move to a new "shared success model" where once you get more than 100,000 hits you have to pay them 20c per hit (based on the Neocities internal hits algorithm that no one actually understands)

[SilkSkull]

Or better yet; Neocities could move to a new "shared success model" where once you get more than 100,000 hits you have to pay them 20c per hit (based on the Neocities internal hits algorithm that no one actually understands)

delightfully evil   

[Icey!]

having to pay to use css on neocities.

[wygolvillage]

These ideas are truly evil. Here's mine:

After an influx of new users who don't understand HTML and complain about it being too hard, Neocities shifts to a model where you can only edit your site via a squarespace/carrd/canva style interface.

[Kallistero]

HTML is now PROPRIETARY. No more customization!    Web pages can now only be built from a set of just-somewhat-customizable components. If a site conforms, it'll be converted over, and if the site doesn't conform, it'll delete everything that couldn't be converted.

Conveniently, though: social media, corporate sites, and other sites keeping with the current washed-out minimalism trend will be pretty unaffected. It'll mostly just affect sites that are old, personal sites, sites that aren't the most trendy (like classic-style forums & joke pages), and sites that have otherwise been creatively designed.