The most important feature of your site if you want consistent readers! RSS allows a program called an RSS Reader to automatically check for updates without going through the effort of visiting individual sites! Its also used in our syndication pipeline (for example, the Recent Feeds section on the main page).
A Gentle Intro to RSS - some motivation for RSS vs regular recommendation algorithms
An Intro to RSS Feeds - a guide on how RSS readers and aggregation actually works
RSS Cheatsheet - a cheatsheet for getting RSS feeds from certain services that don’t advertise them
Notes on the small web - has some good further reading, see the reference section
POSSE - “the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.”
Learn How to Make Websites! - Neocities guide. A good link collection to other resources.
Neocities HTML Course - An intro-level HTML tutorial in the form of a cute interactive webcomic about a cat
Tilable Backgrounds - Funky backgrounds! Hover over them to try them out!
Tiled Backgrounds - More BGs, this time arranged by color
GifCities - A GIF search engine that searches Geocities sites! Run by the Internet Archive.
Neocities - A free and adless webhost with a site discovery feature
Nekoweb - A more recent neocities spinoff with more generous hosting limits (and free custom domains!)
Github Pages - Lets you host off of a git branch. Lots of tutorials and tooling support
Wiby.me - A traditional search engine that specifically only indexes ‘smaller’ websites
Marginelia - Similar to wiby but with an emphasis on serendipity over direct relevance. Good for finding stuff you didn’t know you wanted!
Bearblog - A privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform
Mataroa - Another free minimalist blogging platform. Supports custom domains!
Intuition - Some intuition for the RSS pipeline and how all the relevant repos relate
Blogpost about rss-combine - Guide on how rss-combine was adapted for the pipeline. Slightly outdated