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Neocities.org - the web site. Yep, the backend is open source!
8 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2015-03-02 · latest 2026-07-01
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…to publish their websites over IPFS, this feature got broken (for years) and finally got removed: https://github.com/neocities/neocities/issues/352
comment by ValdikSS · 2026-07-01 · in How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster -
Thanks! If you want to look at our embarrassingly bad code it's all here: https://github.com/neocities/neocities (I'm not saying it's better than Rails, just that it's better than Rails for me.)
comment by kyledrake · 2023-01-12 · in Ask HN: Who’s using Ruby for web development, without Ruby on Rails? -
…this but you can contribute to neocities to promote an alternative web : https://neocities.org/ https://github.com/neocities/neocities
comment by bvcvbuiy · 2021-01-09 · in Ask HN: How do I make technical contributions to a meaningful cause -
…works. Nginx does all the heavy lifting, and the "front store" is just a giant blob of ruby: https://github.com/neocities/neocities Not too bad for 110,000 web sites. Costs at this point are pretty stable for the next million sites (but…
comment by kyledrake · 2017-01-20 · in Neocities: Free, modern Geocities reboot -
…wouldn't put it past the NSA. This is how we've implemented IP address retention at Neocities, BTW: https://github.com/neocities/neocities/commit/4983a9b24eac00... Step two is to throw them away after x amount of time. It's not perfect,…
comment by kyledrake · 2016-06-22 · in Tech Companies Fight Back After Years of Being Deluged with Secret FBI Requests -
…trouble coming up with a good solution for doing this. For now, enjoy the source of our web app: https://github.com/neocities/neocities
comment by kyledrake · 2015-05-27 · in Rearchitecting GitHub Pages -
…are just as big of a problem as the NSA, if not worse. So, now you know the story behind this commit http://github.com/neocities/neocities/commit/4983a9b24eac00b... It's not good enough for the NSA, but it will prevent these idiots from…
comment by kyledrake · 2015-04-20 · in Tor Exit Node Operator Issued Subpoena -
…intend to delete those IP hashes. It's legal. Consider doing it. Here's the code we used to do it: https://github.com/neocities/neocities/commit/4983a9b24eac00...
comment by kyledrake · 2015-03-02 · in Uber hauls GitHub into court to find who hacked database of 50,000 drivers