b(rain)log entry

18 august 2023 update - a very funny thing happened last night right after i posted my blog yesterday:

now, being on three different web hosts just feels excessive, so the new plan is to set up a splash page with a redirect on ichi and neocities! will get around to that in the near future.

i’ve been meaning to talk more about this unwelcome change once i have properly settled into my new web host, so here’s an updated recap of my recent departure from neocities. full disclosure - nearly a week has passed since both the website and its associated profile was taken down, and i still don’t know why. i’ve already contacted support, but i’ve yet to receive a response. (oddly enough, i can still receive password reset emails, but none of the links go through.)

all that aside… i’ve since forked out some cash to reupload my website (again) to a more established hosting service under a new domain, but i don’t plan on leaving ichi.city behind.

i miss connecting with people via neocities’ discovery feed, and i genuinely enjoyed the social aspect of the service - sometimes, it feels a bit lonely existing within an isolated pocket of my own. i liked being able to share what i’ve made for myself without persistently promoting myself on other social media platforms or “improving my SEO”, and i don’t feel like venturing very far outside of the smaller, cozier communities that already exist within the indie web.

so with that said, i’ll continue mirroring “jasmine’s journal” to https://jasm1nii.ichi.city/ for as long as i’m able to, or at least until i hit the upper limit of my allotted storage space (10 megabytes, to be exact). for reference, this website takes up a grand total of around 4 MB on my hard drive, but it will likely explode in size once i get my illustration gallery up. while i have more than enough room to accommodate for these planned additions on my paid hosting service, i can’t guarantee that i’ll reupload everything to ichi, but i’ll try to work around the limit by using fallback links or uploading my images to dropbox instead.

p.s. - i've enabled webmentions, by the way! at the moment, my brain isn't big enough for understanding how to fetch and display them automatically, but that's probably for the best. i'll stick with manually adding reposts to prevent spam. for now, have a comment box - please be kind!