Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website

Post by jefftk » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 12:56 PM UTC

searchableguy wrote: post #7

merlinscholz wrote: post #6

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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.

Post by text_exch » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 12:59 PM UTC

andeee23 wrote: post #11

text_exch wrote: post #9

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. […

Your link is not working, had to put www. in front. Seem nice though, I subscribed

Post by dls2016 » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 1:03 PM UTC

dusted wrote: post #5

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

Post by text_exch » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 1:08 PM UTC

overlordalex wrote: post #17

text_exch wrote: post #9

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. […

This looks really interesting! Is it possible to see a sample of previous emails? Are they just links or is there a comment describing them as well? Getting another email 3-4 times a week is a big commitment, and it would be nice to get a sampler of what we're signing up for EDIT: The website also says that it's a link per day, but your comment says "every other day". A daily link would be an even larger commitment

Post by overlordalex » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 1:16 PM UTC

text_exch wrote: post #18

overlordalex wrote: post #17

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This looks really interesting! Is it possible to see a sample of previous emails? Are they just links or is there a comment describing them as well? Getting another email 3-4 times a week is a big commitment, and it would be nice to get a sampler of what we're signing up for EDIT: The website also says that it's a link per day, but your comment says "every other day". A daily link would be an even larger commitment

Each email contains the article's title, the genre, and an extended excerpt. I'm not sure how to link to previous emails, but here is a sample of previous links: https://mix.com/thinkingaboutthings . It started out as an every day email, but readers told me that every other day would give them time to read the articles.