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We're back from our annual summer break! We'll continue moderating today and work on webrelics.xyz as before. A new style is currently being tested inspired by Jan Robert Duennweller as well as adding the time capsule and general improvements to articles.
To enhance the security of our users' accounts, we have just added two-factor authentication (2FA). You can use a supported Authenticator App (e.g., 2FAS) for authentication.
Our articles are precious, and to make them more useful, you can now also download them as a whole at dumps.webrelics.xyz . You can download them in .txt and .json--whatever works better for you.
We've also made some changes to articles and like to share them with you now. Denied articles can't be deleted anymore, as there are few users who'd delete denied articles to ensure that the chance for the blue mark stays. Instead of the delete button, you can now see the reason for the denial. Markdown articles are now also correctly displayed on the main page.
We have failed. Our french moderation is not up to our standards and the general translation is also under our standards--so we have decided to completly shut down our french service. Au revoir, le français.
To be more trustworthy and have proof that you help webrelics.xyz be something great, we've now added the Blue Mark. Apart from status, it also gives you the ability to use Wester3K with 10 prompts / day. Requirements are 100 articles, good standing (no article denied ever), and an account age of 90 days. You can also get the Blue Mark without fitting every requirement if we think you deserve it.
To get information from webrelics.xyz, we've now added a 3000-token AI named Wester3K, and a simple 4-token NLP named Wester4. The Model Wester4 is available for everyone that has an account with unlimited messages. The Model Wester3K is available for everyone that has an blue mark with 10 messages / day.
Following recent changes, we have agreed to become a UGC encyclopedia. We hope to finalise the changes by 1st of July 2026. What will change? You will be able to create accounts and write your own articles. There will also be a popularity score that you can increase for free! There are no paid options. Featured Oddities are only for admin articles. On June 24th, we will add documentation for the accounts, article creation and contribution requirements.
Webrelics still relied on the Stupid Site's database, but I've now rebuilt it for Webrelics. This means that Stupid Site will now have to rely on Webrelics instead of the opposite. Stupid Site will officially shut down on the 1st of July 2026.
We have now officially moved to a new domain. Changes include new favicons, a different name and a different look. The site no longer represents a newspaper, but something industrial and almost rusty. We hope you like the changes! Any feedback would be much appreciated. To do so, please fill out the contact form.
For the first few weeks, I manually created one oddity a day, which was inefficient because it required manual work, meaning oddities would be created in the evenings. Now, I have altered the database so that I can queue oddities, and I have set up a cron job so that a new oddity will be featured every day at exactly 1 am.
For a project like the Stupid Site, optimising the database is crucial. To this end, any comments unrelated to the featured oddities will be deleted and the total number of comments will be stored in a separate data table. Therefore, posting 100 million comments per day would no longer be a problem as if it would ever happen.
I wanted to breathe new life into the Stupid Site, and how did I do it? By literally adding life! There's now a chance that the Stupid Site will have a completely new design every time you visit it, which I think adds a lot of life to the site. It's addictive to see how the Stupid Site will look in a new tab!
The StupidSite is already a large project with many files. To reduce server load time, I decided to include CSS and JS in the HTML file, which is not usually done, but is necessary for optimization. In other words, it's not unprofessional, but actually very professional because of the reduced wait time.
Following the closure of the old gaming website, I decided to rebuild everything from scratch. I only had some JavaScript code left for a few games; the others were built from scratch. I have also added some new games: EmoteGuessr and AnySort.
In EmoteGuessr, you have to guess the 7TV emote from emojis (not affiliated with 7TV). In AnySort, you can watch different sorting algorithms in action.
The old site worked fine. That's exactly why I had to destroy it.
There's something deeply uncomfortable about functional software. It implies you're done, and I am not done. This is the third rewrite in one year. The stack is simpler now: HTML, CSS, some JS, PHP in the back, MySQL for the data. No framework. No build step. Just files. It feels like cheating and I love it.