A review from the realm of I2P incoming!
In our journeys of checking all things throughout the alt-net, we check to see if we still exist out there. One article caught our eye..
We got a review from "NotBob" - http://notbob.i2p/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?page=397. Read on if you want to know more!
Okay! For those who are unaware of the landscape of I2P. The website notbob.i2p is, of course, an entity that lives in a van (No shame in that, especially in the year 2025, where landlords are charging as much for rent as homes and as for home buying. Better be a fucking millionaire in the States to join the criminal enterprise of home ownership.) So if things get too crazy for us, perhaps we too will sell everything in my place and become the van gypsy as well! There we go, falling off track again!
Beyond living in a van! NotBob also runs a popular I2P site, which will only work if you download the I2P router console. The site address is http://notbob.i2p, which acts a lot like a nameservice and uptime tracker for every I2P website that announces itself publicly.
We thought it would be fitting to go through his review together here on our site!
Now, this review happened on 09/10/2023, and thus responding to a review two years after it's published seems to track for us. Where were we, you may ask? High. Really fucking high..
Here we go:
Overview: s-config.i2p is a nice little page that has quite a bit of content! There are stories, art, music, downloads, a blog, guides and much more! Pretty spiffy stuff. Even more so if you like furries. - NotBob
So kind and heartwarming, right in the overview. Gonna make me cry!
1. Appearance: I'm going to be honest, I hate the color selection. It's hard for me to read. But, that aside, it looks exactly what I expect a site from the early 2000s to look like. It would look better if I had a lime green iMac to display it on. 3/5! - NotBob
It's a very fair criticism of the color scheme. Not mad at all about it. But thank you for noticing the vintage/era of website design we were going for! There were far worse color schemes in the 2000s! Oh, we tried it on an iMac (ours was blue) without the browser updates; The menus went a little nuts due to the modern CSS used. But after a bit of browser updating, it was fine.
2. Quality: There is a lot content here. What I read through was decent. Though, I only sampled a handful of the pages. Very geeky, I like it. 5/5! - NotBob
Again, super nice of you to say. Thank you.
3. Nitpicks: Nothing seems to be outright broken. That's a major plus. 5/5! - NotBob
Fuck yeah! They didn't notice! I mean.. Shit! We've said too much!
Not sure how 2023 was. But remembered going through a transitional phase of destroying and all JavaScript on this site. If they did this review a year prior and noticed all of the plugin fuckery going on.. Yeeeeah we probably would've lost points.
4. Refresh: If you like blogs, this one gets updates from time to time. But, not often enough for my taste. 2/5! - NotBob
Ooof! You're not wrong! Pre-COVID was a little bit more loose, allowing us to make articles on the regular. After COVID-19/Election, the world decided to twist everyone's nuts to work harder. Excuses excuses. Sorry, our publishing times are slow. It's partially why we turned our RSS back on. So peeps can be notified when we actually DO something.
As we're not beholden to any algorithm. We decided to spend a little longer making a long-format blog rather than blast out micro-blogging. On top of this. Time is sometimes allocated to older articles, as generally we will correct our statements if there's something we manage to get dead wrong.
This page was written to look like an old site. It sure gets that right. - NotBob
Wooo! The appearance of being a sketchy site from the 2000s didn't go unnoticed!
Gave us 3 strawberries out of 5. Which is good?!? We like strawberries! SO! Considering it good!
Seen some sites get lemons too, which we're guessing is bad.
They both go great in daiquiris. Which we like the following:
- Using a blender, 1/3 Captain Morgan Spiced Rum. (Yeah, I know you're supposed to use clear.)
- cram 1/3 strawberries 1/3 ice
- Use two lemons. gut and squeeze
- Use one lime. gut and squeeze.
- 1/4th cup sugar (seems a little low, right? Wait for it!)
- Fill the rest with 7-Up from a Mexican glass bottle (There's your sugar!)
Blend and serve! If you did it just right, the 7-Up adds a little of the carbonated fizz to your daiquiri. Yeah! You're ready to put on the pumps and bring out the cheese dish to talk to your friends about "Sex and the City" or "La Blue Girl" same difference!
This concludes my ill-fated attempt at being a recipe blogger.
Final thoughts.
It's refreshing to see NotBob evolving its site from just a simple name service to something a little more personable, such as a blog. Keeping track of an entire network of services will certainly give you something to talk about. But it's also hard work keeping up with them all as well. And hey! We also noticed you have a pictures and links section. Which is very cool!
Thank you for the spotlight on the website of the day. It was nice to see it!
Until next time. That's what server said.
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