u/yuuaioi

Hi!! I ran a site over on Neocities called Aioi, and now I'm in the process of jumping ship to Nekoweb, both for my own reasons and just a general lack of trust/stability with Neocities. I want to make a new site from scratch, but something is in my way!

I was very happy with Aioi as a finished product, although it was totally agonizing to make! I have a condition called EDS, which affects all of the joints and collagen in my body. My hands, wrists, and arms are especially sensitive in this regard, so although I am pretty decent at coding, these efforts can leave me badly injured for days or months, as well as raise my future risk of further injury. I think I have also just struggled endlessly with coding although though I like it, because I'm mentally disabled as well.. the code always muddles together when I write. So I code, but I don't love it!! My code has always been a mess, something of trial and error rather than actual confidence, because no matter how I structure my code, no matter which friendly fonts or themes I use, no matter how much I understand what I am writing in theory, it always hurts my head and confuses me to look at, even something simple like a silly forum signature. I'm looking to start a new website scratch now, but my disability is discouraging me. It's very very hard to want to start a project that hurts you mentally and physically!!

I'm looking for web development tools (free or one-time purchase) that will, to some degree, behave in a "click-and-drag your objects" way, like Scratch does. I know Scratch is more programming-oriented, but I really enjoyed having an inventory, or having something to hold my hand in a way that didn't strip me of my autonomy. I do not want any sort of AI/generative tool whatsoever. My perfect tool, I think, would look like... very user-friendly and visually accessible, not a lot of repetitive/strenuous hand movements (like typing), but still allowed authority over my own work.. don't lock me out of the code! Things like Carrd and Strawpage are cool functionally, for short little biographical pages, but they are ultimately not at all what I want, when what I have created and what I will always strive to create is a corner of the Internet to myself.

I work with HTML, CSS, and JS -- styling is one of my favorite things to do when it comes to web design!! My usual workflow used to be to write on Codepen, then manually ship to Neocities. I think this time, I will probably switch to VScode (for things I have to write and format, like my blog posts). Dictating code will sadly not work for me, I am a very visual and tactile-oriented person. I was looking at Pinegrow, but on top of not knowing how compatible it'd be for my needs, it seems like their 'one-time-purchase' tier doesn't actually promise you access to any future builds, and I'm not really wanting to financially support anything with flimsy caveats like that. <:"D

I also see things like VvvebJs, Silex, GrapeJS... but does anyone know how compatible they are with Nekoweb? Does anyone have success with using these and exporting to Nekoweb? I would appreciate examples!! Thank you all so much for reading, and I hope this post can also be a resource for anyone else stuck in my boat!

ETA: I'm on Win11!!!

Hello!! I’m trying to find an album by Mint Potion that used to be available online but seems to have been completely removed? Searching via Internet Archive has also been unsuccessful :(

The release I am looking for is PROBABLY titled “Mint Potion: Launch EP [MP100]”. I found that title through a 2019 Wayback snapshot of their Bandcamp page. (There is nothing saved of the album itself, so I cannot access the tracklist, which, even that would help me a ton! I'm not even sure that this specific album is the one with the tracks I remember on it. Soundcloud snapshots are even more unhelpful)

I listened to this EP around/sometime before 2017, mostly on Bandcamp. I found Mint Potion through their work on the Lakewood Plaza Turbo mobile game (Mint Potion would then go onto produce music for the show OK K.O. Let’s Be Heroes). The specific EP I'm looking for was not part of any video game/TV soundtrack!!! It had a very funky or disco-like style and felt pretty distinct from their game work. Sound-wise it felt very very similar to the OK K.O. theme song.

I remember a couple of lyrics from different tracks. One song repeatedly used the line “just ‘cause you love me” as a central hook. Another song, which I think may have been at the beginning or end of the EP, had lyrics along the lines of “so (____ on the ____?), ‘cause I know you wanna move, so let’s dance” followed by a brief spoken part.

This EP is very very significant to me, it brought me a lot of joy in a very formative time in my life!! I listened to it a lot during a specific period of my life in the summer of (2016-2017). I was a young teen and I would play it on repeat while traveling by train to see major league baseball games, so it is tied pretty strongly to those memories.
I've been looking for this album for years and have not able to successfully contact the creators directly, so I would prefer to exhaust other options first!!

Someone mentions the album in a 9 yr. old Tumblr post here, which even links to the EP itself (gone, unarchived) and Mint Potion's website (gone, unarchived).

I am hoping someone may have archived this release, downloaded it at the time, or knows of an existing backup somewhere. Even confirmation of the exact tracklist would help narrow things down further!! Thank you so much!