CSS Shenanigans?

[malymin]

Well, nobody's used this comm since November, but I figured the cohost folks would wanna see this?

I know the full degree to which Cohost enabled CSS *crimes* isn't quite possible on any other social media. However, it seems like there is a small community of people on here who are wringing the site's inline CSS capabilities for all of their worth. They're not shitposting with it the way the #css-crimes scene on Cohost, was, though.

Rather, it seems like getting fancy with in-post CSS seems to be most popular with the roleplay community on here. Some of the roleplayers get very #aesthetic with how they format their lists of RP accounts, book-keeping for different threads across the website, et cetera. Not *all* of them are doing this, but enough are that it seems noteworthy.

I found a community, chriscodes, that's got some example codes to peruse. This post (which is technically a follow-up on this post) and this post strike me especially in terms of the visual effect. And then this post very much reminds me in spirit of a CSS Crime, in terms of just being creating an effect for literally no reason than Because You Can.

I am wondering what the people who used to post in the CSS Crimes tag on Cohost are doing now... it's one of the little things I miss seeing regularly.

Comments

Hmm ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I haven't seen the "crimes" thing but there are communities on DW that deal in CSS including dreamcodes and dreamwidthlayouts, so those might be places to look.

Re: Hmm ...

[stepnix]

The "crimes" bit just means that the code is doing something weird or unexpected, often in a mischievous way. Kind of aiming for a "wow, I didn't realize you could make a post do that!"

Re: Hmm ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I've seen people make rainbow text, sparkles, blinking, crawling, all kinds of things. Not often, but enough to know it's possible. I have no idea how, but the code communities would be good places to ask about it.

Re: Hmm ...

[kossai]

oh , there was tons of freedom with wacky HTML/CSS - some would say too much for public site , given some incidents , but on flip side , this freedom lead to some really cool things . actually find video showcase of some of most impressive , with link to mega list as well , which include point and click adventure game , blackjack , puzzle box , and beautiful useless button style animation .

Re: Hmm ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

That is so epic. I am sadder than ever that Cohost closed.

Re: Hmm ...

[postgarf]

it was genuinely so amazing. here's actually a website of someone's puzzle boxes that they posted individually to cohost when it was up !! genuinely one of my favorite social media experiments ever imo, very sad it's gone

Re: Hmm ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yeah, based on the folks who came to DW, Cohost was full of the kind of freaks I love.

Thanks for the puzzlebox! I have boosted the signal for it. My fans will like it.

[ahmwma]

Not quite what you were asking for, but this seems like a nice place to share it around.
A recently posted article about cohost's CSS crimes from one of our dear CSS criminals:

https://css-tricks.com/the-lost-css-tricks-of-cohost-org/