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

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Post by stevenicr »

I see the footer, then it disappears - (next scroll kicks in) - see foot, disappears, repeat.. (desktop, firefox)

It's time we bring back webrings and optional auto-check for recip links - with options to check for nofollow and do a thing or not.

Webring code anyone can self host - have notification and approval and accept nofollow links as okay by default should work fine.

Thinking of them getting bigger, might need to give surfers and option to sort by tags / categories / newest / oldest. have option for website owner to prioritize or highlight a few as first seen each month..

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

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Post by sailfast »

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.

I love the idea of returning to this to be honest. What was missing was the big awesome list of RSS feeds haha.

This is actually a great idea. The key is to actually continue to do this and not gatekeep and charge money for promoted crap and add algorithms once it seems profitable to do so. If that happens we’re just recreating the wheel!

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

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Post by couscouspie »

Yokohiii wrote: post #79
flir wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we're going to reinvent Google's "circles" mechanism from G+. We all (well, the terminally online, at least) are going to be part of several more or less overlapping villages, and the people in those villages are going to trust each other to not be bad faith actors. Everything else... everything that tries to scale... everything public... wasteland. Something something Dunbar's number, Tragedy of the commons.

Interesting. Each time I think about how we could reboot the (social) web I have this on mind. I don't want exposure to everything, so kind of whitelisting the contacts/peoples/blogs is the first thought. I guess it could work to carve your own cozy echo chamber that once in a while lets something new in. The conflict I cannot penetrate is that some things (could) need a larger exposure surface. I.e. OS projects, mai…

It seems like many people have the same or similar ideas. I was thinking of using a tool similar to bookmark-managers as the foundation of a new web. Where you subscribe to RSS-feeds of specific (or clusters of) people to specific topics as the "follow" primitive and you publish your own feed(s), which bookmark-managers btw. already allow. The missing pieces are commenting on the feeds of friends and a layer of federated ML for ranking, which the user controls by simple sliders that set the mark for dimensions like retrieval-vs-discovery, hightrust-vs-highnovelty, recency-vs-trendingimpetus and so on.

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

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Post by landdate »

Yokohiii wrote: post #79
flir wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we're going to reinvent Google's "circles" mechanism from G+. We all (well, the terminally online, at least) are going to be part of several more or less overlapping villages, and the people in those villages are going to trust each other to not be bad faith actors. Everything else... everything that tries to scale... everything public... wasteland. Something something Dunbar's number, Tragedy of the commons.

Interesting. Each time I think about how we could reboot the (social) web I have this on mind. I don't want exposure to everything, so kind of whitelisting the contacts/peoples/blogs is the first thought. I guess it could work to carve your own cozy echo chamber that once in a while lets something new in. The conflict I cannot penetrate is that some things (could) need a larger exposure surface. I.e. OS projects, mai…

The few niche social media websites I have seen able to prevent rapid deterioration in quality without dying in active user count typically have a high barrier of entry. Reminds me evilzone one of the few decent hacking websites on the clearnet that actually had a decent community. They had some challenge you had to complete I can't even remember what it was, but it prevented new users from joining unless they could solve it. Was very simple iirc but it stopped large amount of the skids/hf peeps.

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

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Post by jasoneckert »

ramkarthikk wrote: post #76
jasoneckert wrote: post #33

This is great, thanks! It sort of feels like browsing for gems in a used bookstore and stumbling onto authentic, personal writing. I'm always up for that, and plan on spending plenty of time exploring the list. I’ve submitted mine as well - cheers!

That is such a lovely way to put it. Do you mind if I add it to the about page and link to this comment?

Of course I don't mind - please do! :-)

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

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Post by rav3ndust »

cool stuff. have already found and bookmarked a few interesting sites just going through the list.

submitted my own blog there as well. it is cool seeing human-curated directories coming back (not that they truly left, but i've been seeing more and more over the last few years around the 'indie web')

i do a little something like this on my own site, but it is just a simple directory of sites that i like listed by category on a single page.

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