Ooooh I love these indie web aggregators. I wrote about some of my favorite ones here if anyone's curious: https://nelson.cloud/how-i-discover-new-blogs/.
But here are some of my fav ways to discover blogs:
Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
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#152This is awesome. I find myself seeking out blogs nowadays as many of the best forums have died out and reddit has dropped in quality significantly.
I typically use marginalia and wiby to make finding posts from blogs easier, but I like the idea of providing hn style mechanics to blog posts, so many of which lack the ability to comment/discuss the material. At the same time, while I think this is a useful tool, I am a little weary of the aggregation and consolidation of the web.
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#153Incredible 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.
Do you have any idea what killed webrings? It seems to be simply a great idea...like...should we bring it back? Could we?
Search.
There was some overlap between the webring age and the early search age, but once search became entrenched and useful, webrings faded. Blogrolls survived for a little bit longer, but it was search.
Specifically, once search became the way you found the first page/site to begin with. Before search as default, you found sites in a bunch of scattershot ways: advertisements, word of mouth, lists in books, or lists on websites that updated periodically (that you had to have found/heard about one of the other ways) for example. Then you crawled out from there because that was the only way to find things. You had to either know the URL or use a link. And not all of the links/sites in the webrings were good.
Once search got good enough, people found the initial site via search and instead of taking their time clicking through a webring which might at any point lead them somewhere dead or useless, it was quicker to go back to the search page to find something else.
Page access went from being a chained together web of back and forth links to a 2 step process of search -> page.
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#154Vaguely related, I did an extremely basic RSS feed combiner ages ago: https://hn-blogs.kronis.dev/ when there was that one post where people could share their blogs and many of those had RSS feeds.
That said, it got its list of feeds from the repo that someone made which hasn't been updated in a few years, so even if new blog content gets pulled, the list of blogs doesn't change. Oh well, wasn't a super serious project.
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#155Ooooh I love these indie web aggregators. I wrote about some of my favorite ones here if anyone's curious: https://nelson.cloud/how-i-discover-new-blogs/ . But here are some of my fav ways to discover blogs: - https://minifeed.net/welcome - https://indieblog.page/ - https://1mb.club/ - https://512kb.club/ - https://250kb.club/
I'd like to submit my own aggregator to your list:
It aggregates the top articles on STEAMD topics (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math, and Design) from various forums and displays them in chronological order.
This includes forums like Hacker News, Tildes, Lobsters, Slashdot, Bear, and some science, tech & programming related subreddits.
You can read more here:
Re: Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
#156Ooooh I love these indie web aggregators. I wrote about some of my favorite ones here if anyone's curious: https://nelson.cloud/how-i-discover-new-blogs/ . But here are some of my fav ways to discover blogs: - https://minifeed.net/welcome - https://indieblog.page/ - https://1mb.club/ - https://512kb.club/ - https://250kb.club/
I should create an aggregator aggregator
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#157Very nice, this is great! Love that you give the two UX options. FYI (bug report): In the non-minimal version, navigating by category is janky in FireFox. The logo briefly disappears with the nav jumping up in its place every time you click a category.
Ah, thank you. I will check this.
Just following up to say "You fixed it!" :)
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#158Sweet! Glad to see so many active personal blogs. We should push to bring back RSS feeds somehow. I really miss that era.
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