CodePen
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
2warn against
Dec 11, 2025first mention
Sep 26, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“There are a few websites that I can of off the top of my head that don't need an account”
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“have you considered publishing the work at platforms as CodePen”
Caveats and dissent
“because of these useless shenanigans of codepen”
Threads where it came up
- CodePen 2.0 4 mentions
- You gotta think outside the hypercube 2 mentions
- 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us 1 mention
- Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type 1 mention
- Ambient Website Background Clouds 1 mention
- Generative Art over the Years 1 mention
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All comments 12
“There are a few websites that I can of off the top of my head that don't need an account”
“because of these useless shenanigans of codepen”
https://htmledit.squarefree.com hasn't changed in over two decades.
“A textbook definition of "feature creep".”
“they kept the old style available”
“Been a CodePen user/fan since it launched”
“have you considered publishing the work at platforms as CodePen”
“I keep CodePens of some of my better efforts[3] around as a set of extra tests”
“codepen has a tesseract for a logo”
“I've got a rotating tesseract demo up on CodePen”
“All of those can be done with pure html/css, eg. https://codepen.io/mikestreety/pen/yVNNNm”
“here's a sample I forked following the mouse using <svg> with <script> inside https://codepen.io/zamadatix/pen/emZXZKx”