Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by sT370ma2 » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 11:40 AM UTC

Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website
cheapskatesguide.org

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by tybulewicz » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 12:19 PM UTC

Site seems to be down, archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://cheapskatesguide.org/ar...

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 12:27 PM UTC

tybulewicz wrote: post #2

Site seems to be down, archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://cheapskatesguide.org/ar...

Oh, the irony.

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by EGreg » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 12:30 PM UTC

tybulewicz wrote: post #2

Site seems to be down, archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://cheapskatesguide.org/ar...

Congratulations. The hunt is on!

And the game... is afoot.

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by dusted » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 12:32 PM UTC

Webrings are back :D Put your personal sites in a webring! :)

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by merlinscholz » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 12:39 PM UTC

dusted wrote: post #5

Webrings are back :D Put your personal sites in a webring! :)

Funny timing, I just blogged about webrings on my personal website a few days ago: https://merlinscholz.name/post/bring-back-the-old-web/

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by searchableguy » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 12:46 PM UTC

merlinscholz wrote: post #6

dusted wrote: post #5

Webrings are back :D Put your personal sites in a webring! :)

Funny timing, I just blogged about webrings on my personal website a few days ago: https://merlinscholz.name/post/bring-back-the-old-web/

I have seen few people with webrings on HN as of recent. Hard to tell if it's gaining momentum or I am just lucky?

Example: I was reading https://www.jefftk.com/index yesterday which also included webring.

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by 082349872349872 » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 12:52 PM UTC

EGreg wrote: post #4

tybulewicz wrote: post #2

Site seems to be down, archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://cheapskatesguide.org/ar...

Congratulations. The hunt is on! And the game... is afoot.

Tally-ho! I actually get many personal sites with my web searches, but maybe that's because they are both narrowly targeted and expressed in keyword form?

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by text_exch » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 12:53 PM UTC

I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to highlight the interesting content found on personal blogs. It's a single link every other day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that really make you think. The overwhelming feedback is that being able to read the kind of non-viscerally-targeted news and analyses that aren't easily found online is incredibly valuable.

[1] https://www.thinking-about-things.com

Re: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

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Post by dusted » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 12:54 PM UTC

searchableguy wrote: post #7

merlinscholz wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny timing, I just blogged about webrings on my personal website a few days ago: https://merlinscholz.name/post/bring-back-the-old-web/

I have seen few people with webrings on HN as of recent. Hard to tell if it's gaining momentum or I am just lucky? Example: I was reading https://www.jefftk.com/index yesterday which also included webring.

I don't know if they are, I think, a bit, the "old web" is actually huge, but getting into it takes some effort.. Sometimes, you find these hub-like sites, for example when browsing a webring (shameless plug geekring.net ), that leads deeper into some neocities commune or similar, it's great fun :)