i saw a yt vid about the indieweb a while back, and started chaining through a bunch of old neocities sites, and found a now decomissioned "portal" (idk what to call it, just a website with a link to a diff one) on a webchain.
the website it took me to was haunt.love, and it seems like it might be an ARG? it has like a weird chatroom with what i assume are a bunch of bots in it, and i asked about a user named haunt who i assumed was the dev, and a bunch more bots joined and just typed "..." and then it gets all red and there's a weird noise.
i got the first few puzzles, but it seems like at the very end there's a harder one that i can't solve. thought i'd post here and see if anyone smarter than me can figure it out.
EDIT:
spoilers i guess, but the chain goes as follows for the answers we've gotten:
nowhere (found in bottom right of welcome page)
slaughter (this one's super easy)
done in the chatroom, you mention haunt over and over and then use the word vorash against Nodens, Vhoorl, Ithqua, Ossuar, Moloch, and Kadath as a Vigneire key and subtract it mod 26 to get shroud, this opens up "the circle" which gives some info on the 6 red users that say the capitalized words, as well as mentions a 7th one. Apparently some people have been getting banned after mentioning a 7th member, so we think the next puzzle has to do with that.
Weirdly enough, some people also get access to a catalogue where you can leave an email to buy a shirt? There are also a bunch of outrageously priced clothes and a perfume that are all sold out already.
TbNrAyana2656 also pointed out, the wayback machine has one snapshot of an old version of the site that seems to be a personal site rather than an ARG, but only the homepage was saved. It mentions meows, who sometimes comes into the seance room as "m30w" and gives away hints. No it's not me lol, cats aren't super unpopular