cohost export: Some of the CSS crimes of all times

As cohost! goes read-only on October 1, I look back at one of the things that I adored about the website: being able to make animated and/or interactive posts with (slightly restricted) CSS and HTML (no JavaScript).

People made a lot of posts utilizing these tricks, and these are some of them.

CSS crimes (gold tier)

Some of these are complete games!

  1. First byte timeout
    (behind the scenes)
  2. Hexagon puzzle
  3. Wheel of fortune
    (behind the scenes)
  4. Rock paper scissors
  5. Warioware
  6. CSS puzzle box
  7. Minesweeper
  8. Pitiful worm quiz
  9. Farewell from @blackle
  10. Reminiscing
  11. Test your memory
  12. sokoban
    Spoiler: warning: generally considered not solvable
  13. Blackjack
  14. Chosu! (cohost Osu!)
  15. Coquest!
    (underlying tricks)
  16. Typeshift
  17. Farewell from @rebane2001
    Also check out antonymph!
  18. coho clicker
    (Firefox only!)
  19. Matchstick game
  20. Tower of hanoi

CSS crimes

  1. Skybox satellite
    Animated skybox cubes!
  2. Disco Elysium
  3. Help Eggbug!!
    Spoiler: Eggbug is flattened, and there is a bike pump
  4. Half-life
    Spoiler: in VR chat, with ponies
  5. What's in the trashcan?
    Spoiler: two possums!
  6. Active desktop recovery
  7. Fake content warnings
  8. Flip card
  9. Planet of the bass
  10. Speech bubbles
  11. We're just normal men
  12. Magic circle
    (behind the scenes)
  13. Cohost 22, the hit new operating system
  14. Find Eggbug
  15. Roll the die
  16. cohost: new horizons
    (Animal crossing-style dialog)
  17. Character creator
  18. Metaballs in CSS
  19. Clickable tooltip
  20. Lighting effects by torcado
  21. Click on green squares to reveal a surprise!
  22. Color hue slider!
  23. Pixel-art intro post
  24. Where's my cat?
  25. Big cohost popupbook!
  26. Pixel editor
  27. shorter games with worse graphics
  28. Lupin III
  29. Gizmo
  30. Dress up
  31. Find my keys
  32. Eggbug Adventure
    Spoiler: all egg bug dog and soda
  33. Click below to turn off your cohost
  34. Upon activating your Cohost account, several cutscenes will play in sequence.
  35. As Cohost reaches its final days, several cutscenes will play in sequence.
  36. Spoiler reveal
  37. Farewell from @Matytoonist
  38. Tomorrow is halloween
  39. gaslight / gatekeep / girlboss
  40. SPAs: Are they the right choice for your new website?
  41. Woah there, not so fast!
  42. Oh hell yeah! my box of eggbugs has arrived
  43. Eggbug Kirby
  44. Comet
  45. Pride month / hermit pond
  46. Circles
  47. Only Chonnect
    (Only Connect)
  48. Moire animation
  49. Useless box
  50. Keyboard
  51. Average stream waiting screen
    The source animation is super intense.
  52. Screensaver
  53. Meme constructor
  54. Welcome to cohost.
  55. eggbug is afraid of the dark
    Spoiler: use "Invert colors" from the post menu!

    Theme-sensitive posts were made possible thanks to var(--tw-border-opacity)!
  56. Guess the phrase
  57. Dialog
  58. Other kind of dialog
  59. Touhou
  60. Maze
  61. KILL eggbug 2.0 (oh no)
  62. The cohost pixel corner
  63. Conway's game of life

CSS mischiefs

Small bits and animations can be cool too!

  1. Pondering my orb
    (now with parallax effects)
  2. Mods are asleep

    mods are asleep post bad cohost terminology
    the term for posts on cohost is chlogpost
    Mods are awake and they are coming for your ass.
    Start running.

  3. Hummingbird zoop
  4. Longcat
  5. Warning! Cohost shutdown imminent!
  6. Ball hits pony
  7. Post warning meta-jokes

    Sorry! This post hasn't been deleted by its original author.
    This post is not a draft. It's publicly visible, and you can send people links to it.
    Where the FUCK am i?

  8. This post doesn't contain 18+ content.
  9. Parked domain
  10. hallowee(e)n
  11. Go to the gay department
  12. Good use of fixed backgrounds
  13. How many bananas?
  14. erasure poetry
    Spoiler: click on words
  15. Post cube
  16. Other cubes
  17. Flappy bug
  18. Interactive carbon adventure
    Spoiler: he is only carbon now
  19. Scrolling, strolling
  20. This user is pettable
  21. Oh look, a free iPad!
  22. You can now play as Luigi
  23. Slot machine
  24. Cacodemon
  25. DIY eclipse
  26. I'm cleaning up my timeline! Can you help?
  27. Dialog boxes
  28. Bites you
    Exemplary use of Markdown+
  29. CIE Luv
  30. Ghost
  31. DISMY
  32. Cro's postings
  33. Cookies
  34. Circles
  35. Blue Friday (how does it feel)
    (Inspired by Blue Monday)
  36. MJPEG crime
  37. Scrollbar stimboard
  38. This post is daft
  39. Inside you there are two wolves
    Spoiler: Also relies on "Invert colors" from the post menu, but a little simpler
  40. Peripheral vision
  41. Boing
  42. Parallax
  43. Spelunking
  44. The 100% correct way to do CSS breakpoints
  45. Benham's Disk
  46. CSS flags
  47. Low orbit ion cannon
  48. Do you love the colour of the sky?
  49. The Botanical Garden of Bogota Jose Celestino Mutis
  50. CSS crime polaroid
  51. A message about games
  52. Moire animations
  53. CSS optical illusions by @rykarn:
    1. Cafe wall
    2. Lilac chaser
    3. Checkerboard
    4. Concentric spirals
    5. Stepping blocks
    6. Static motion
  54. My opinion on the current discourse
  55. This post has content
  56. A voice on the wind
  57. Browser detector
  58. Inline spoilers
    Had to switch this post to use this kind of spoilers too because my Cool Spoilers don't render right (or, sometimes, at all) in RSS readers.
  59. How big is your eggbug?

CSS mimicry

It's like a (different) website in here

  1. Let's see where the dog is going with this
  2. Wiki warning
  3. cohost forums
  4. how to floop using flingle
  5. Welcome to nginx
  6. Ultraviolent language
    (my adaptation of)
  7. Catch me dead in that iTomb
  8. IMGUR
  9. dril itunes saga
  10. Minecraft

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