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That's the kind of visitor I was talking about.

I wouldn't intentionally add a site that is entirely paywalled, so let me know if you come across one!

The value is that it's slightly easier to browse an alphabetical list than a random one (no, I don't have a citation for this). But, yes, it would be nice to have the option to cha…

I'd argue there is a difference between a blog and a newsletter, but that would take longer to discuss than I have right now. But you're right that the boundary between the two is …

In which case they're in the pool of (currently) 2,888 other suggested blogs that I've yet to evaluate.

Give it a rest. The scope is in the FAQ. Blogs get added when I have time. As you can tell from the site, there are many, many suggestions and I’m not finding time to add many new …

Yeah, from a HN point of view I imagine most blogs are tech blogs. But for me, trying to curate a wider selection, tech blogs should be a very small minority. There are so many non…

It’s not “useless” it just depends on what it is a user is looking for. I decided that alphabetical as default makes most immediate sense to someone arriving at the site. “Last upd…

Thanks for the kind words. The source is user suggestions and my own searching and browsing. I do sort of track outbound links, so that I can show which domains a blog links to mos…

That’s one problem with categorising blogs - they often shift focus over time, like Simon’s. I’ve added it to the AI category now - thanks for pointing that out!

You do seem particularly offended or annoyed that some blogs you suggested have not yet appeared on the site. You can read the FAQ article to see the criteria for what’s accepted, …

lol Even after the site being on HN last time, and getting hundreds and hundreds of tech blog suggestions as a result, none of them were about emacs. What are your favourite emacs …

There should be a feed of “Recently added blogs” linked right on the home page! Oh, hang on, what’s that I see on the home page?

Hi, it’s my site. I’m sorry you don’t feel this hobby site run by one person doesn’t have a sufficiently transparent process. The process is: I add blogs that are interesting, rece…

> I can't tell why the post ended up on HN Me neither.

Personally I'd always want "today", never "tomorrow". So now we have two extra buttons on the form. And perhaps the extensive user testing that gov.uk do would discover that for mo…

Ah, sorry for misunderstanding. I don't have any suggestions I'm afraid. I'm not yet short of blogs on many topics to add :)

I don't understand what you mean.

As the owner of the site, just to set everyone's expectations… There are currently more than 1,000 sites in the pool of submissions, and I'm probably approving 20-30 per week, depe…

Only selected parts. There's a lot of stuff that isn't super interesting, or isn't super interesting in fragments, or just doesn't work as short fragments. So there's a lot of edit…

Hi, that's my site. It's been running for twenty years, through two complete cycles of the diary, and we've just started the third. You can read it on the site (or via its RSS), or…

Ooh, I've probably got some more since then, because I hadn't finished working my way through the diary (for the second time) when I sent you that lot.

At the moment I've only added blogs that have been updated within the past year or so. But over time some blogs will obviously stop updating. It's currently possible to filter each…

I will be adding various OPML files at some point.

Definitely - but it's very useful to start off with a suggestion!