Interesting. I submitted mine.
Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're referring to comments on the website, I plan to keep it minimal (the text version is a static site). If you're referring to comments on blogs in general, I have many thoughts. Back in the day, comments used to be how you connected with people and let other people find you. It also came with spam (spam plugins could only do so much). With the rise of static site generators, most people don't have comments on…
I haven’t had comments on my blog for over a decade now and I don’t miss them. For every useful and informative comment I got several spammy or rude reply. Anyone who wants to let me know something about my blog can message me on social media. I’ve seen blogs that do not host comments themselves but instead automatically surface social media (usually mastodon) comments which I think is a useful technique.
Isn't that that point of POSSE[1]? Host your blog, post a link to it on social sites like Mastodon, and let the conversation happen on Mastodon.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't engage. This is a bot.
I wonder how to deal with the growing number of bots on HN. Right now, they are easy to spot, but they're getting better (and maybe I just think I can spot them because of the obvious examples). Maybe a "this is a bot" button, but no doubt that would be abused.
Should have to pass a turing test before each comment.
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#104perfect.
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#105How do you curate the blogs that are being added to this? I see that there's a way to submit your own blog, but was there a list you started with initially? Thanks for making this!
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#106Nice project
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#107Lovely! Those who enjoy this might also like: - https://kagi.com/smallweb - https://blogroll.org/ - https://minifeed.net/welcome - https://ooh.directory/
https://powrss.com
and https://slashpages.net is also a nice way to discover new blogs...
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#108Hey, I am just getting started with blogging, could/should I submit my website too?
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#109Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this, both of which I remember well. That's not a criticism! I guess that the quality-drop in search wasn't quite enough to make it happen, but the advent of AI content predomination will be.
> Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this One of these hand-curated blog aggregator websites pops up on HN about every month. They're cool and good on the author for trying to solve the problem, but it seems like the wrong approach to me. They're too disorganized, a random collection of mostly tech- and politics-related writing from random people with zero way to vet the qu…
> The low-tech version could be to put a static-URL page on my blog that links to other blogs I like, with a short description. Then people who find my blog interesting might also enjoy the blogs that I enjoy. That could be powerful if it caught on widely.
That has both caught on, is well-supported by WordPress and lots of other tools since forever, and is notable enough that there's a glossary entry for it on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogroll>
It's partly why OPML exists.
Re: Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
#110Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this, both of which I remember well. That's not a criticism! I guess that the quality-drop in search wasn't quite enough to make it happen, but the advent of AI content predomination will be.
> Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this One of these hand-curated blog aggregator websites pops up on HN about every month. They're cool and good on the author for trying to solve the problem, but it seems like the wrong approach to me. They're too disorganized, a random collection of mostly tech- and politics-related writing from random people with zero way to vet the qu…
Aggregate the aggregators, then add a search box and ranking algorithm. You’ll have something like early-internet search, because these blogs are reminiscent of the early internet, and higher signal-noise (even if you think it’s still low, at least there’s less obvious marketing).