Nekoweb vs Neocities or.... both? Are we moving? Mirroring?

[Malice]

I moved from Neocities to Nekoweb awhile ago, at the time it was partially because of the owner (which I now no longer really care about as much honestly, like yeah it sucks, but I feel like I blew it a bit out of proportion) but now it's mainly due to how nice the page editor feels (I used to have to break up some pages on Neocities if there were too many lines of code due to horrible lag, which made maintaining Archivescence a bit more tedious. Nekoweb doesn't have this issue!) and I could upload any filetype for free, which is also great for the archive since I had a few .bmp files that I couldn't put on Neocities. I actually ended up moving to the paid tier after a while, partially due to getting close to the file limit and because I wanted my sites under one account, and overall I think it was a pretty sound decision!

I have considered mirroring to Neocities again since I sort of miss that community, but oddly enough I've felt less pressure to update my sites consistently due to the lack of social features and how it takes a few more clicks to see site stats and follower count and such. I will say, Nekoweb's Discord isn't all that great and I'm not a fan of how it's basically the only way to get tech support/community. It's kind of a cesspit in there, so I'm staying out until I need help with something. I also just don't like the concept of Discord as tech support when forums exist! It's easier to redirect someone to a forum thread where their situation has been solved already than repeating yourself, but I digress.

I think the Neocities vs Nekoweb debate can be solved by asking yourself what you're doing for your site, which host will suit your needs better, and, if you're willing to pay, what paid tier features benefit you. File-heavy sites may benefit from Neocities' lack of file limit and larger free storage, but may have to take code editor lag and lack of uploading certain filetypes for free into account. Blogs may benefit from Nekoweb's RSS feed, but may have to take the lack of site comments into account. Some may prefer the social features of Neocities, while others may prefer Nekoweb's lack of them. I always suggest giving both hosts a try before settling on one or deciding to use both.

[lakes]

I have considered mirroring to Neocities again since I sort of miss that community, but oddly enough I've felt less pressure to update my sites consistently due to the lack of social features and how it takes a few more clicks to see site stats and follower count and such. I will say, Nekoweb's Discord isn't all that great and I'm not a fan of how it's basically the only way to get tech support/community.

I think the Neocities vs Nekoweb debate can be solved by asking yourself what you're doing for your site, which host will suit your needs better, and, if you're willing to pay, what paid tier features benefit you.

As someone who also recently switched to Nekoweb, I agree with this sentiment. Both web hosters and communities have their ups and downs. I decided to host a mirror of my site on both Neocities and a self-hosted version over this peer to peer network known as I2P.
I was originally gonna self-host over I2P exclusively out of fear that AI would scan my website in spite of my robots.txt. But just when I started thinking about it, there was sybill attack on the network from someone testing out a piece of botnet software known as Kimwolf.
I do think Nekoweb has better built-in code editors than Neocities. So far, I have been trying to set it up so that an iframe of my Nekoweb site causes my Neocities pages to update my profile feed using code from a friend. But I kinda can't seem to get it to update my feed. I know it's not my friend's code itself because he switched from Neocities to self-hosting & still uses Neocities for a mirror of the site. So I must've not copied it perfectly. Another thing I noticed is that a large of portion of Nekoweb feels younger? which isn't a bad thing, but on Neocities, I had an easier time finding users my own age. I personally prefer self-hosting over I2P to either of them, since I have more control over the site itself, but I can't have it up all the time and I2P sometimes gets hit with attacks to the network. So I have the site on both as a compromise.
I refuse to touch Nekoweb's Discord because it gives me a similar vibe to using Discord for Linux communities: I'd rather not rely on a proprietary corporation to interact with community-driven or open source projects. It kinda defeats the point to me. Plus I don't like the communities on most public Discord servers.
I agree that it'd better if Nekoweb had a forum. Even if they wanted something still chat-based, they could have a shoutbox like here, have an IRC channel, an XMPP chat, or even a Matrix room, or one of the plenty other alternatives to Discord.

[sunnyp4rk]

I've long flew off from using Neocities or Nekoweb, but for a while, I did switch to Nekoweb. Gotta say, while I didn't think about it at the time, looking back, it was more...peaceful, not having constant activity front and center when I logged onto my dashboard. That's actually a big reason why I moved off of Neocities for good back in October, since it felt like you CONSTANTLY have to update your site. But that's how I feel about it all. I would recommend Nekoweb if you just want a site to put your site on, and not interact with others lol