Melonking Website

144•thecsw•6mo ago

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bharatgel•6mo ago

Pure genius!

userbinator•6mo ago

I played the "guess what it's going to be about before clicking on it" game with this item, and lost badly. I won't spoil the fun, but only remark that this site is neither about [1] a melon farming business, nor [2] a certain famous man with autocratic tendencies whose handle in "last-initial first" format would be "melon".

schoen•6mo ago

I thought it was likely to be like the onion sales story.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132

YeGoblynQueenne•6mo ago

Yeah, it's not about Melon Usk.

pxeger1•6mo ago

Oh I guess it is supposed to be Melon-King, but I firmly read it as Melonk-ing at first. What could it mean to melonk?

nine_k•6mo ago

Ascribe a meaning to it, make it a viral meme, and the meaning will stick.

Words like "quiz" and "blog" came to existence this way.

okonomiyaki3000•6mo ago

This is the World Wide Web?

This is what the World Wide Web is supposed to be.

uncircle•6mo ago

The reality is this is on the HN front page probably because it was trending on Reddit/Twitter or whatever the kids use these days. Without the grace of the benevolent algorithms, you would never ever have found out about this website.

thecsw•6mo ago

The reality is that I was browsing the annual HTML Day submissions [1] and stumbled upon this super wholesome webpage.

[1] https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html

throwanem•6mo ago

No thank you! I've never melonked in my life and I surely don't mean to start now.

Mistletoe•6mo ago

I thought it was about something like spelunking but you just explore yourself. Basically just the 21st century.

throwanem•6mo ago

What's wrong with exploring oneself? Obviously not too much nor wrongly in public and never to excess, but if the modern spelunking is just urbex - which it is, in my view, and much more appealing than any dank smelly old cave - then, though I won't repeat the hideous portmanteau, I don't suppose I see too much of a problem with this practice, either.

After all - γνῶθι σεαυτόν, wasn't that the phrase? No accident at all we find it incised over the gateway to an oracle. You might want to think about that, who has just finished reading this now.

mwcz•6mo ago

Mellon is Sindarin for "friend", so maybe mellonking is exploring one's friends?

YeGoblynQueenne•6mo ago

No infinite scrolling, no AJAX and the back button works.

The entire world wide web used to be just like that, back in the Good Old Days of teh Internets, or so I'm told.

bombcar•6mo ago

“There used to be an end to the page!”

ethan_smith•6mo ago

This is a perfect example of the "neocities" movement - a modern revival of the 90s/early 2000s web aesthetic that explicitly rejects the homogenized, corporate design patterns that dominate today's internet.

aspenmayer•6mo ago

Came for the linkbait, stayed for the midi renditions of popular hits gone (g)old. Say it ain't so.

fleebee•6mo ago

I feel a bit warm and fuzzy inside when the forum (and the guestbook) seem reasonably active even if they're hidden under a rock. It's a treehouse kind of vibe.

camgunz•6mo ago

My fave website of this ilk is superbad.com. I go back here and there and I'm instantly 17 again, hee-heeing at the postmodernity of it all

treetalker•6mo ago

The link rings are at the bottom of the Fav Hyperlinks page, in case anyone was looking.

neom•6mo ago

Pretty cool. Nice to see iframes, don't think I've seen those in a long long time. Also very good that the forum has a post your desk thread[1], very 2005 internet of them. One thing I can't figure out, are these old people who lived old internet or young people who have recreated old internet for themselves to live? Either way, cool site.

[1]https://forum.melonland.net/index.php?PHPSESSID=641b114d1686...

righthand•6mo ago

It definitely will heat up your cpu.

Rendello•6mo ago

I ran into one of these neo-geocities-style websites in the wild when telling my friend about a trendy pizza place I liked. Even the EN-FR switch is animated:

https://pizzabouquet.ca/

ben_w•6mo ago

Much, much better than most websites today, IMO.

anonzzzies•6mo ago

It's fast here. That's a win over 99% of modern sites.

news_to_me•6mo ago

Here's Seattle's version of that: https://www.dinostomatopie.com

crtasm•6mo ago

>You can read a profile about me on Rhizome :o What a wild outcome for what started as a weekend homepage project ~ https://rhizome.org/editorial/2025/jul/29/artist-profile-dan...

uncircle•6mo ago

> Works best in Firefox!

The Internet is cool again.

PenguinRevolver•6mo ago

A website that closes on Mondays? Stupid, stupid concept. As stupid as Steam's Tuesday Maintenance...

Fortunately, you can skip it very easily: https://melonking.net/melon

PinkMilkshake•6mo ago

Wonderful site. How are they sneaking in the auto-playing music? Firefox even displays a little icon saying audio is being blocked.

chao-•6mo ago

Firefox on Android blocked it. They gave me a nice message:

>Oh no! You have autoplay Music disabled! Please enable it to enjoy this site fully

scumola•6mo ago

closed on mondays. :(

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