Smallweb Chatter Post

[kalloway]

What's going on with your web of projects?

This is an open post for chatter and showing off what you're working on/just finished/etc. Joy and frustration are equally welcome.

Comments

[kalloway]

I think that would probably be better, especially on a slow-moving community like this one.

(I honestly can't recall how much advertising I did for this comm - I know it was mostly word-of-mouth/friends-friends - if you have any plans please LMK and we can combine forces/hit up a few comms.)

[enchantedsleeper]

I'm so sorry for taking so long to come back to you here - my August became a bit manic, though in my head I also thought that it had been, like, 10 days tops 🙈 I am still absolutely invested in running this, though, I should say!

I don't frequent any other small web comms (except for fancoded, which I know you also know xD), but I am planning to make a post to my personal blog (for all the reach it offers xD) and also plug it over on Pillowfort and Mastodon, where I know there are some small web peeps (particularly on Mastodon). Hopefully there'll be some interest!

I should probably make those posts imminently, since September is almost nigh (😱) so I'll do that as long as you're happy to go ahead with the event happening here? ^^ Let me know if you want me to send anything like post outlines or... idk, anything you'd need. Also, I was sketching out a rough schedule of posts, and I think that I would probably alternate the end-of-week round-ups with the resource/troubleshooting posts to make one post/check-in point per week, otherwise it probably will be a bit much. So it would look like this:

Sept 1: Kick-off/goal-setting for the month
Sept 8: Resource recs (how-tos, nice-looking sites, webrings, the works)
Sept 15: Halfway point progress check-in
Sept 22: Troubleshooting! Got an issue? Post about it and get help, or offer it
Sept 30: Wrap-up! How did it go?

[kalloway]

No worries, mine has been... interesting times. ^^;;

Anyway, I am totally cool with this. I'll probably drop links on fictional_fans, which has had some conversations on archiving, and maybe dw_community_promo? (Unless you want to, I'm not trying to step on toes.) When you post on Masto/Fedi, tag me in, please if you can!

But yes this all looks good, I am very excited. ^_^

[enchantedsleeper]

Commiserations for interesting months, I hope yours gets significantly less so <33

That sounds great to me!! Please do go ahead, I'm really happy to have promo support 😄❤️ I've also thought that I could drop a note in fandomcalendar (and the PF equivalent) since it's of interest to fans who have personal archives, shrines, etc (or want to make them)!

I'll be sure to tag you on Fedi and drop links to the other posts, too ^^

[kalloway]

I saw your fandomcalendar post, boosted on fedi, and I've posted to fictional_fans and dw_community_promo. I'll get fancoded maybe tomorrow (I don't want to totally spam people, lol)

[enchantedsleeper]

Thank you very much! <333 That's awesome. (I see the fancoded post too :D) It seems like people are excited to take part! It's really nice to see ^^

[kalloway]

There's so much energy around this. Thank you so much. ^_^

[enchantedsleeper]

Yes! I'm honestly just really stoked that people want to take part - no thanks needed at all <333 I've wanted to organise something (like an event or even a comm) for a long time, so it was really nice to have a prompt and the encouragement to do the thing ^^

Also, when I went back to the community homepage to make the kick-off post, I did a double-take because suddenly there are several new posts! So exciting! :D

[enchantedsleeper]

I realised it might be a bit tricky to plug the event without some details to point people to, so I took the liberty of making an intro post. I hope it reads okay and is as you expected!

I've also made a promo over on my journal ^^

[kalloway]

\o/ Fantastic! I'll see about some further promo after work. I'm so excited. ^_^

[enchantedsleeper]

Thank you! So am I! :D *\o/*

I had a close call yesterday when I initially went to make the post on my DW and input my archive URL instead, then received a message saying "This website is no longer online because the hosting plan has expired". I immediately "!!!!" to my partner, whose hosting plan it is, and he was very "???" because the hosting plan is meant to (and normally does) auto-renew. We're still not sure what happened there 😅 We're also travelling at the moment, and my fear was that he might not be able to renew it until we got home, which would mean I'd be running a chunk of Small Web September without being able to do anything to my own site XD But all was well, and the site came back up almost immediately. 😮‍💨

[kalloway]

Ack! Weird... I've had Neocities hiccup on me a few times and make me panic, but at this point it's kind of what I expect for the web in general. (There's somewhere that I get stuck in a Cloudflare loop half the time on mobile, too.)

Maybe someone's cat ran across the keyboard... /only half-joking

[enchantedsleeper]

We finally did get to the bottom of what happened with the hosting plan 😂🙈 When I logged into the control panel to start work for SWS, I saw an announcement from July about price increases for hosting plans - which mentioned that auto-renews would be cancelled as a result and would need to be manually re-upped for the new price system. (I've gotta say, I feel like that's not great from a site preservation perspective as I'm sure a lot of sites would have gone down if they're not being monitored too closely, though I suppose it's fair to not just assume that people are on board with paying more?) Apparently an email was also sent, which my partner obviously missed. xD Given that he has a bunch of other sites on that hosting plan, it's a good thing I noticed when I did...

[kalloway]

I feel like that's the opposite of what a lot of companies do but at least it's taken care of now. ^^;; I hope it wasn't too much of a bump.