Small Web September Check-In 3: Halfway Point!

[enchantedsleeper]

Wooooah, we’re halfway there,
Wooo-ooah! (Lemon on a pe-ear!)

*ahem* We’re at the halfway point for Small Web September already!

If you’re wondering where the heck last two weeks went, you’re not alone – but don’t despair. There’s still loads of time for small webbing!

This is our ‘How’s it going?’ halfway point check-in, where you can share your SWS progress if you’d like to and compare notes with your goals at the beginning of the challenge. Has anything unexpected come up as you’ve worked on your small web project(s)? Are you focusing on the things you thought you would, or have you found some new side quests to go on?

Here are a couple of question prompts you can use for this check-in:

• What have you been working on so far for SWS?
• Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
• What are you looking to work on next?

As a reminder, this is the third of five ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates for these posts in the event intro post. There’s no cut-off point for leaving comments on these, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on every one or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide, but all discussion is welcome.

To find our last check-in post and browse through all of the awesome resources and recs, go here: Small Web September Check-In 2: Recs and Resources

Comments

[aikoto]

Well, the internet was very different back then. Sometimes people prefer to befriend people who are closer and all, I actually wish I knew more people into my fandoms who live over there.
You would get surprised on the language thing, I used to navigate thru eng sites knowing 3 words + a dictionary/machine translations lmao.

I'm surprised email isn't obligatory on the ones you've checked! They're usually a request for cliques, fanlisting and webrings so the owner can tell you when you have been added to it.
That said I have seen the country thing being optional in some newly-made listings, I guess it depends on the owner/scrip they use.

[le_gaosaure]

Well, the internet was very different back then.

Hence my confusion because the listings I looked were all super recent. And yeah I was navigating Japanese sites back when I was 16 and couldn't differentiate a hiragana and a kanji if it bit me in the face, but I wasn't filling application forms lol.

Anyway, fanlistings are very much not what I imagined but I got cultured /shrugs/

[aikoto]

Yeah I meant that was originally added back then since that's how things ran & it's just something that stuck, don't fix what isn't broken ig.
Maybe webrings are more of your liking since they focus on the website/webmaster themselves, so they're a list of sites with a common theme (sites run by writters, focused on a theme/game, etc)

[le_gaosaure]

Oh no I was looking at listings because I hate the structure of webrings xD (Why would I ever want to send people to random sites when I have perfectly functional hyperlinks to tell them what they'll find if they click through?) (I mean some people love randomness and that's fine, to each their own, but that's very much not for me ^^) I'll just go craft in a corner and digest the fact "small web" as a culture is not for me, I'll live ^^

[le_gaosaure]

Thank you, it's reassuring to know that it's not all in my mind, it really seems like the general internet culture and the specific fanlistings culture have not evolved in concert =')