#Vedal.AI website does not work both technically and in a practical sense

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keen path
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I took a good look at the Vedal.AI website and multiple things struck me. (note all that I'm talking about is on desktop, though it seems it's all about the same on mobile)

First and formost, you can not access the other pages of the site from the main page.
While both /sitemap.xlm and /robots.txt brought up an error 404 message and I'm not sure a site map exsists, googling site:vedal.ai shows me there are 3 pages associated with vedal.ai: the main page, /advice, and /abandoned-archive.

going to /advice, there is a big problem in that you cannot scroll down. After playing with inspect elements I have a few theories on why this is, but I couldn't seem to fix it (read: I suck at html).

The /abandoned-archive page has the same issue with no scrolling. I was however, pleased to see that the steam link functioned.

It seems odd and counter productive to have a website without at least either an introduction blurb or an about you page. One would assume you would be looking at this website if you wanted some information about Vedal.ai, and currently it doesn't do that, which is probably not great in terms of professional marketing. I can't find it but I think I recall a thread saying Vedal wanted the

Though it might be possible these pages are nearly hidden on purpose, if that is not the case then pages not being navigatable from the home page is a grave oversite.

Also they should REALLY add neuro-sama into the tags of the metadata so that the site will come up when someone searchs for her name.

The team at Vedal.ai should probably either contract or crowdsource a fix

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dame I got essay tagged. I didn't even write that much.

valid estuary
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i mean its just not that big of a deal

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advice page and abandoned archive page are really only meant to be linked to

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website is just placeholder really because i really don't need a website for myself

keen path
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So it's there so someone else doesn't buy the domain?

brisk grove
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that and cuz its funny

keen path
brisk grove
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yes

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jank websites are funny

valid estuary
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i mean i get to use the email so i do use the domain

keen path
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and the website exists by proxy?

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cool

urban sandal
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Please make the font in comic sans with bright yellow letters. Thank you.

keen path
hearty merlin
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"going to /advice, there is a big problem in that you cannot scroll down" overflow is hidden on the body, it's probably for the main page

lunar sandal
urban sandal
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Perfect.

coarse osprey
icy coral
# valid estuary website is just placeholder really because i really don't need a website for mys...

I think even just a small frontpage portfolio on vedal.ai (bare minimum is really important given realistically, you are a public figure.

Even if it is just stating, who you are, what you do, a link to your github and twitch, what you work on/do (neurosama, likely with a link there).

The contrast is really bad for a11y (accessibility), so anyone who has any form of colourblindness, or other eyesight-related disabilities or accessibility needs are going to have a pretty rough time making out the links. That is just really bad practice.

Furthermore, a sitemap is really important, documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/build-sitemap

If you need further assistance, you can use a site map generator: https://google.com/search?q=free site map generator

Additionally, regarding the keywords meta tag concerns raised earlier. Those are not used in search results in 2025. Unless you want to cater to users using a really really obscure search engine (Bing) it doesn't matter, so honestly if you're really lazy don't bother.

Also, your Twitch links to vedal.xyz/advice, but then the URL forwards to vedal.ai/advice. That redirect is redundant, and also it is a longer URL.

Navigation is incredibly important for any modern website, and to make it accessible for users. Not including that is a bit silly. It doesn't hurt, and it improves UX exponentially. Even if they are intended to be linked to directly, it isn't particularly clear that there has been a good enough reason provided per what you have stated.

Also, it's pretty ironic that the abandoned archive page is abandoned in terms of UX and UI. It is barely usable on any monitor, and is barely responsive at all.

If you don't want scrolling, make the content more responsive so it always fits the user's display. Otherwise, really just make it so it scrolls. (remove position: fixed; from body { } your CSS styles, and make some changes to the background image). But really, the preferred option there is making the content on the page more responsive.

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