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Re: Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

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post #9

awesome - but it doesn't support all Top level domain names. it failed on some of my submissions

Seems like with new TLDs coming out all the time, there should be no validation being done. You attempt to resolve the name entered and allow it if it passes.

Re: Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

#12

Very nice! Almost all of the traffic to https://datacrayon.com comes from HN/Reddit... I remember things being different in the GeoCities/Angelfire days. I wonder if sites like this would change that

For sure - I am really interested in finding ways that would help new or smaller websites get traffic and in web discovery.

I also wonder if Google is somehow getting worse about this. For example, I happen to know now (though I didn't know when I started the stumblingon project) that there are a couple other similar sites that exist. However, when I originally googled "Stumble Upon" and phrases like "Stumble Upon Alternative" or "Stumble Upon Clone" I never saw any of the others that do exist. Instead, it is/was mostly "Top N Stumble Upon Alternatives"-type listicles that weren't very good and would suggest things like "Facebook". Oddly, the top result, for me, for "Stumble Upon Clone" is this weird website [1] which I think is selling Stumble Upon clones, like - they will make a Stumble Upon clone for you. (Possible I'm misreading that).

1- https://www.ncrypted.net/stumbleupon-clone

Re: Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

#13
Needs a way to flag abuse, like https://get portal.co/earlyaccess which is just some company's product with a slick sales site. First thing I got when I clicked :(

Edit: another abusive link https://www.the followershop.com/ (i have broken the links to avoid any sort of SEO for them)

Re: Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

#14
post #13

Needs a way to flag abuse, like https://get portal.co/earlyaccess which is just some company's product with a slick sales site. First thing I got when I clicked :( Edit: another abusive link https://www.the followershop.com/ (i have broken the links to avoid any sort of SEO for them)

Good point. I have a "like" button in the history section. I will add a "report"/"bad"/"shouldn't be here" button to that as well.

Re: Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

#16
post #13

Needs a way to flag abuse, like https://get portal.co/earlyaccess which is just some company's product with a slick sales site. First thing I got when I clicked :( Edit: another abusive link https://www.the followershop.com/ (i have broken the links to avoid any sort of SEO for them)

Good point. I have a "like" button in the history section. I will add a "report"/"bad"/"shouldn't be here" button to that as well.

Oh hey, you're the creator! This is a really cool site, thank you.

Re: Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

#17
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point. I have a "like" button in the history section. I will add a "report"/"bad"/"shouldn't be here" button to that as well.

Oh hey, you're the creator! This is a really cool site, thank you.

Thank you!

Re: Show HN: StumblingOn – Randomly find indie websites – recreating StumbleUpon

#19
post #3

This is great! I was just thinking about StumbleUpon the other day and wishing it were still a thing. I have a whole folder full of awesome bookmarks (half of which are dead now) I found using StumbleUpon.

Thanks. A while back I was trying to find the original StumbleUpon and discovered it had become some kind of social media site, so I recreated what I remembered was the core functionality (click button, get random site).

> A while back I was trying to find the original StumbleUpon and discovered it had become some kind of social media site

I don't know what StumbleUpon is like now, but it was always a social media site; a major feature was the stumpleupon comments page associated with any actual page.

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