Nekoweb

What is Nekoweb?

Nekoweb is a free static (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript) web hosting service.

It was created on 2024 by a group of coders, programmers and artists , with the goal of 'That everyone should be able to freely express themselves in their own little corner of the web'.

History of Nekoweb

Before Nekoweb was launched on 25 February 2024, Nekoweb development started on August 26 2022, and was in development for 2 years.

• 26/08/2022: The first mention of the name Nekoweb is made by fish (ilovebjork123).
• 26/08/2022: The development of Nekoweb starts and the Nekoweb catagory in the NeoNet discord is created.
• 14/09/2022: Discussion of Nekoweb freezes until 07/09/2023
• 07/02/2023: The Nekoweb Discord is launched.
• 07/02/2023: dimden shares some screenshots of Nekoweb in the Discord, and that Nekoweb has 50 users.
• 08/02/2023: dimden announces that the possibility to import, export and upload big files is done.
• 09/02/2023: dimden asks the community for 88x31 buttons and banner, who show randomly when the website is refreshed, and that the explore/search page is fully done and working. And the site box layout will probably be remade.
• 13/02/2023: dimden shares a screenshot contain a picture of the password reset page, and announces that the patreon integration is done.
• 17/02/2023: dimden announces that the settings and account page are probably done.
• 24/05/2023: dimden announces that Nekoweb has 200 members.
• 31/08/2023: dimden shares an screenshot with a possible redesign.
• 20/02/2024: dimden announces that Nekoweb is kind of dead since the developers are too busy/lazy with other things, and that dimden thinks of launching Nekoweb without the social media features and just web hosting only. dimden also says that the most of Nekoweb is already done, except the social media features, and that the developers don't have the time to create them, and hopefully add them later. The community is asked what they think about it.
• 25/02/2024: dimden announces that Nekoweb is done and launched after 2 years (and doing some 'yardwork' since 20/02/2024), and he recommends to sign up now, since there is no invite system yet, and that Nekoweb is in beta and bugs may happen.
• 25/02/2024: dimden announces (again) that Nekoweb is accepting 88x31 button and banner submissions, and that (when the banner is clicked) it will probably link to the website of the maker, and that Nekoweb has 500 users in 12 hours.

• 25/02/2024: dimden announces some recent updates of Nekoweb:

  • you can now follow people !!! press [+] on right of username
  • you can now search code in editor
  • you can now change font and font size in editor
  • explore tab now filters out sites without any updates so its much cleaner now, but there was bug in first like 12 hours of nekoweb in which update count didnt update so if ur site is not shown u should update it once or twice
  • fixed bug with site deletions
  • fixed bug with contact form not working
  • fixed bug with patreon perks requiring logout to appear, also it updates list more often now (15 mins instead of 1 hour)

• 26/02/2024: dimden announces that Nekoweb has 1000 users in 1 day and 1000 discord users.

• 28/02/2024: dimden announces that Nekoweb in 2 days has 1600 users, Nekoweb has an API now, and added these new functions:

  • theres now multiplayer cursors on main page
  • u can change ur cursor by uploading cursor.png to ur root folder (max 12x17) (or 16x21 for donators)
  • u can chat by pressing Enter
  • u can now switch and browse ur files from editor page
  • theres now popular tags in explore page
  • increased tag limit to 10 from 5
  • improved pagination of pages
  • now site boxes show ur main custom domain
  • fixed unicode characters not working in dashboard
  • added confirm to exit on unsaved changes in editor

• 01/03/2024: dimden announces that Nekoweb has 1850 users so far, and these new functions:

  • NEKOWEB HAS GIT SUPPORT NOW lets gooo
  • you can now also claim subdomains instead of just domains (this means u can now have multiple sites without having domains)
  • you can now login to ftp with api key
  • you can now see who follows you
  • added toggle to turn off cursors in settings
  • also cursors were broken for a day but now they're back
  • added cursor page limit so its not too cluttery when lot of activity

• 01/03/2024: dcin announces to leave the Nekoweb team.

• 06/03/2024: dimden announces that Nekoweb has 2055 users and new additions:

  • you can now invite others to edit your site!!!! its in settings page
  • due to explore page being 70 megabytes now there is now a size limit for assets used in your site box: 2.5 MB. if you use image that exceeds it, it wont be loaded (sometimes it can load due to browser stuff but for most users itll be blank so keep this in mind) some site boxes were already affected by this! it can take few refreshes to see if it got broke (ironically CTRL+SHIFT+R makes it show and unbreak which is usually good but not in this case, so dont use it to check and instead use normal refreshes) ( @angle.nekoweb.org hi ur one broke ) editor will show if one of ur assets in elements.css is over 1 megabyte in size and warn you of this (please consider other peoples internet)
  • bumped site limit from 5 to 10 for cute kitty users (also again, u can claim subdomains now, no need to buy a domain)
  • added format button for html, css and js files - added option to autoformat code on save - you can optionally change formatter settings by creating prettier.json file and including prettier settings (you can also nest them in js, html or css to only use them for these files)
  • added emmet (its a thing that allows u to write for example div#test and then press tab and itll turn into automatically, neat)
  • added text wrap option to editor (makes all text always show on screen instead of having to horizontally scroll)
  • now nekoweb has automatic password resets wow we're now smart enough to send emails - also its required to verify email now on new registers
  • and lot of other small bugfixes etc etc nobody cares

• 08/04/24: dimden announces new updates, and 'very very very very good ones too':

  most importantly, an actual gamechanger: introducing NekoVM, a Linux with Node.js and NPM running inside your browser, with full read/write access to your site filesystem. what this means? you can now use any static site builder or framework to build your site. literally any framework, fr like actually! available to everyone too, not just donators! theres also support for local port forwarding so you can for example run vite dev server with frameworks that support it :OOO this is still beta. report any bugs when u see them and backup ur site before doing anything in terminal. you can launch your site in terminal about once per minute (opening site in terminal counts to import/export zip rate limit which is currently 1 time per 1 minute (2 times for donators))

  i extremely recommend you watch video i made about me building demo Svelte app using Nekoweb Terminal to see how cool this thing is:

  https://lune.dimden.dev/4085d4ed0d4a.mp4

  (video embed below)

  theres also 2 more cool features: you can now remove .html from your links! this was a very requested feature and now its here, you can enable this in site settings theres now support for setting custom HTTP headers for donators, also in settings!

  while NekoVM is still Beta, this update log marks Nekoweb Release™️, yea if u didnt notice nekoweb was still beta all this time. nekoweb has been running for almost 2 months now and most of issues have been fixed and things seem to run nicely. i hope itll continue to be this way thats all for now! check the video!!!!! its awesome

• 08/04/24: Nekoweb is no longer in Beta.

• 23/04/2024: Dimden announces that Nekoweb hit 3000 users.

• 05/05/2024: Dimden announces:

  you can now add

  <iframe src="https://nekoweb.org/frame/follow" frameborder="0"
  width="170" height="28"></iframe>
  

  to your page to have actual 'Follow on Nekoweb' button! you can also style it by styling .follow element in elements.css file!

  non-cloudflare domains are now supported! theres now theme picker!

  we're open for theme submissions (also banner submissions are also open) https://lune.dimden.dev/eb63962731e5.mp4 bunch of fixes and improvements (better pagination, no more cors errors between nekoweb sites, sorting by least views, etc) there's also plans to add support for dynamic sites soon.

• 13/06/2024: Dimden announces:

  default nekoweb theme (classic) will be removed soon because person who made it doesnt want it to be on nekoweb we're still accepting submissions for themes, and will pick some as default one in near future currently biggest contender for it is frutiger neko theme since it looks the most polished and neutral-ish, but if some better theme will be submitted then it'll be chosen instead looking forward to your submissions! end of an era

• 17/06/2024: Dimden announces that Nekoweb reached 4000 users.

• 11/06/2024: Dimden announces:

  new default theme by Rol is up! Changing default theme means that all other themes broke, so theme picker was removed for now. Once authors of themes submit the fixed versions, it'll be added back hopefully.

• 28/07/2024: Dimden announces:

  Hi, there's some improvements and bug fixes in the dashboard and editor.

  • Fixed moving files and folders
  • You can now sort files in dashboard by name, size or last modified
  • You can now see size and last modified date of files by hovering on them
  • You can now create files and folders from file editor
  • Made editor follow indentation settings of prettier.json file
  • You can now CTRL + click on folders in editor dashboard to open full dashboard in new tab
  • Fixed save error text being broken
  • Fixed file text search popup having broken style

  That is all. Have a nice day!

• 16/08/2024: Dimden announces:

  Now following page is better, it sorts and groups sites by last updated date. This allows you to actually keep track of updates in sites you follow. That's what following is for, idk why this wasn't done earlier

• 16/08/2024: Dimden announces:

  New API endpoint to check ur rate limit! Also allowed more zip API requests to donators

• 02/09/2024: Dimden announces:

  Hoster that hosts Nekoweb server is having some serious issues, so we are currently down too. So we've decided to switch server ASAP to a new hoster that will be much more stable and shouldn't have any downtimes. New server will also be much more powerful and larger, so we will be able to grow for a very long time without any worries.

  We expect it to be back up today, and then we'll be able to safely switch to new hoster with all current data. But if hoster won't be up within a day, we'll use our last backup that might be up to 12 hours old. Then we'll be able to bring back any edits you did in last 12 hours upon support request, once original hoster is back up.

  Nekoweb is back up! This means we can safely move to new server with current data.

• 27/09/2024: Dimden announces:

  I've been coding my own, much faster http server and >yesterday migrated Nekoweb to use it. But it's still very new so there are a bunch of bugs that are getting fixed as people report them. Bugs can include:

  • files showing 404 even if they exist
  • files not updating even after CTRL+SHIFT+R
  • 403 errors
  • and other random issues

  Please report bugs you get in ⁠suggestions-bugs-etc and they'll be fixed. Basically, any behavior that suddenly became different since yesterday is probably a bug.

• 20/10/2024: Dimden announces:

  Now there's an option to enable strict slashes (sorry for unnecessary ping). https://lune.dimden.dev/3d593959838b.png

• 20/10/2024: Dimden announces:

  More updates today:

  • Nekoweb now has multiple FTP servers. You can choose between Europe and USA server. Check FTP page for more info.
  • Finally fixed bug with moving folders and files!
  • You can now drop folders to Nekoweb dashboard!
  • Fixed bug with it being impossible to create files starting with dot.

• 23-11-2024: Dimden announces that Nekoweb hit 8K users.

• 30-11-2024: Dimden announces:

  Thanks to hana (ourheroisasandwich.nekoweb.org) Nekoweb is now (mostly) mobile friendly!

Resources used

• https://nekoweb.org/
• Nekoweb Discord