A Community Website Anyone Can Edit
Everyone on the MelonLand Forum can edit this website at the same time together.
Melonland is not exactly the type of site that needs an introduction. It's one of the pillar communities that remained after the dust settled from the fallout of the whole Yesterweb (🙄) thing. Most users who've been initiated into the world of Neocities pages (and Geocities revival) have probably come across the Melonland forums at some point.
Melon once described the forum and its relationship to Neocities to me as:
Neocities has many wonderful sites, but the general culture there is quite narrow ... Id like to see this forum as being a fusion point where NC culture and the wider art web culture can meet ^^
Though he and I are not aligned in every way and have different views about what makes ideal Internet spaces, I respect him greatly as a software artist.
My favorite thing he's ever created is the everyone site @ Melonland.
Here is an example of one of the pages: a community bulletin board. In the top right corner, if you're logged in to Melonland, you can click "Edit this Page" and will bring up the code as shown below.
The code for these pages is absolute madness. You have to adjust the way you organize code from how it would be on a normal project. You need to anticipate that others will mess with things and probably break things, so you namespace your code, pack everything for your edit into one space, and find a spot to stick it. It's never going to be perfect because you're working on top of everyone's imperfection.
You can tell which code is coming from different users by the color highlights. You can see how many users are editing the same page as you. And you can create as many pages as you want. There's a history of all edits as well, so even if someone were to make a destructive edit, nothing is really lost in such a way that it can't be brought back.
Of course these are just the main pages that the most users will look at and interact with. Deep in the everyone site are pages that are not linked anywhere, so fewer people know about them. You can make something with just you and another person. Here's a silly thing I made with another user. Here's a page whose color theme you probably recognize. I wonder who made that.
In my opinion, this feature is the biggest reason to be interested in Melonland.
If you decide to give it a try, take the time to learn the culture at Melonland first.