Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderHi! I started Neocities. I read HN regularly. Neocities was actually launched and bootstrapped on HN about 3 years ago, and donations from HN users bankrolled the first year of operating it. Things have been going really well, the site is growing and still sustains it's own existence through donations and supporter accounts. I still work on the site heavily. We're launching some big features soon (more space, Github webhook deploys, etc.). We just finished migrating to SSL (for everything…
Some technical details about the project you may find interesting: - They were hosted on Digital Ocean but received a (probably invalid) DMCA takedown and all their servers were shut down by DO - In response they bought an IPv4 block and built an Anycast CDN so complaints go to Neocities instead of the hosting provider - People sometimes host spam or phishing sites on the domain which can cause google to flag it as malicious[0] - There's a geocities…
I love this site. It's a reminder that everything old is new again. We seem to be in a sweet-spot currently on the web where the same spirit of creativity is still alive and people can add their whimsical 2c worth, however small an effort. Yes, there are 4-5 big sites we all visit to get our news and likes, but there are small pockets of the web that are totally indie and grassroots and remind me of a more…
Ignoring the spurious upvotes... not sure what happened with your submission (canonical header?) but this is just a link to the neocities website, not a page with that title... do you have the full URL?
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 601
- Total comments
- 130
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-02-18 | Neocities | coding4all | 1 | 0 |
| 2017-01-20 | Neocities: Free, modern Geocities rebootFirst breakout · Best thread | matthberg | 416 | 99 |
| 2018-09-26 | Neocities: Create your own free website | LinuxBender | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-02-14 | Create your own free website. Unlimited creativity, zero ads | LinuxBender | 2 | 1 |
| 2020-02-18 | Neocities: Create your own free website | tomerbd | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-04-06 | Neocities: Create your own free website. Unlimited creativity, zero ads | peter_d_sherman | 7 | 0 |
| 2020-05-19 | If you remember GeoCities this one is for you | LemonHotdog | 13 | 0 |
| 2021-04-15 | Neocities, a 21st century reincarnation of GeoCities | pjerem | 20 | 1 |
| 2021-05-08 | Make the Web Fun Again | nix23 | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-11-18 | Neocities: A platform that lets you create your own website/follow other's sitesHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | alexb_ | 119 | 22 |
| 2024-02-26 | Neocities | RGBCube | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-05-06 | Neocities | ritabratamaiti | 4 | 0 |
| 2025-11-25 | Neocities | DeathArrow | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-04-09 | Neocities | nc0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-04-19 | HTML5 Coupler Loop – Working | rogmash | 5 | 7 |