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387 Neocities Founder Stuck in Chatbot Hell After Bing Blocked 1.5 Million Sites

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msmash @ Slashdot · 02/07/2026 02:30 EDT

Neocities Founder Stuck in Chatbot Hell After Bing Blocked 1.5 Million Sites

Neocities founder Kyle Drake has spent weeks trapped in Microsoft's automated support loop after discovering that Bing quietly blocked all 1.5 million websites hosted on his platform, a free web-hosting service that has kept the spirit of 1990s GeoCities alive since 2013.

Drake first noticed the issue last summer and thought it was resolved, but a second complete block went into effect in January, cratering Bing traffic from roughly half a million daily visitors to zero. He submitted nearly a dozen ticket

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