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Re: Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

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Post by sphars »

ramkarthikk wrote: post #137
susam wrote: post #117

This is a very nice project! Thank you for creating it and sharing it here on HN. I like the minimal version more but the modern version is quite nice too. I would probably stick to the minimal version but since it seems to lack the search feature I end up using the modern version for that. By the way, some minor issues I found: 1. In the minimal version, when browsing the list of blogs I cannot get past page 12. The…

Thank you for the detailed feedback. I'm glad you like this project. 1. Yeah, there are definitely more blogs. Seems like an issue paginating and fetching it at build time. I will check this. 2. I generally don't prefer infinite scroll but since people are used to it on social media, I kept it on the modern version. It does make it impossible to see the footer. I will figure out a way around this. In the meantime, th…

Regarding the infinite scroll with the footer, I like the path Valve has taken with the Steam store homepage. The footer is part of the infinite scroll, as in, when you reach the footer, the infinite scroll continues.

Re: Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

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Post by chromacity »

coldpie wrote: post #31
Hard_Space wrote: post #9

Incredible 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…

I think the simple reason why small web / webring sites don't work is that if you're in the mood of "let's pull the handle on the internet slot machine and see what it surprises me with today", then social media does a better job. Without fail, it gives you something to be outraged about or impressed with.

And if you're looking for something specific - "I want to learn category theory" - then you don't visit a small web site because the content you're looking for is probably not on any woefully short, hand-curated list of URLs. So you do a normal web search (or ask your chatbot).

Another problem with web rings is that if you're hopping sites at random, you more often than not end up someplace weird in 3-5 hops. I guess it's the internet version of six degrees of separation: you're always at most six clicks away from neo-Nazis or SEO spammers.

Re: Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

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Post by eleventen »

nelsonfigueroa wrote: post #151

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: - https://minifeed.net/welcome - https://indieblog.page/ - https://1mb.club/ - https://512kb.club/ - https://250kb.club/

A few more:

- https://powrss.com/

- https://blogroll.org/

- https://ooh.directory/

Re: Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

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Post by dllu »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #169

> If you don't find your blog, please add them. > RSS / Atom Feed URL * I really need to implement an RSS/Atom feed in my static site generator, the lack of this feature is really starting to hurt. I can probably get Claude to help me with this.

I vibe coded RSS feed for my static site generator a few months ago: https://github.com/dllu/dllup-rs/blob/main/src/main.rs#L850

and was pleasantly surprised to see my blog was already on this website!

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