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

#21

The Stumble button was hidden at my screensize which was a little confusing :-). Looks like removing `.wholePageContainer{height: 100vh;}` fixes the issue and keeps the buttons from stacking on top of each other.

Hmm, that's troubling. What browser and OS are you using? Having read your comments I realized I haven't tested it on high zoom in safari (or at all on Internet Explorer or Edge).

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

#22
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 also for the sites marked down as bad, create a public /shame list that’s available as plain text/json and we can use it to add to block lists on our own projects.

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

#24
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).

One of the things you could do with the original StumbleUpon is stumble by category. I had categories for my hobbies and it was really fun to stumble on different pages relating to one of my hobbies. As it is, this is fun and takes you to sites you'd never have gone to on your own!

Another idea - people have already mentioned the ability to report pages but I think it'd be cool to be able to upvote a page. Then for each category you could have a rolling leaderboard of the most upvoted pages in the past 7 days or whatever. Some people might just want to look at that, or look at that in addition to getting rando pages.

Good luck!

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

#26

The Stumble button was hidden at my screensize which was a little confusing :-). Looks like removing `.wholePageContainer{height: 100vh;}` fixes the issue and keeps the buttons from stacking on top of each other.

Hmm, that's troubling. What browser and OS are you using? Having read your comments I realized I haven't tested it on high zoom in safari (or at all on Internet Explorer or Edge).

Safari on Mac, for example at 950x950, shows them stacking. Looks like Firefox on Mac is ok.

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

#27
Thank you! This is BIG!

And this API endpoint is very interesting:

  curl -X POST "https://service.stumblingon.com/getSubmissions" -H  "accept: application/json" -H  "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"status\":0}"
More on API here:

https://service.stumblingon.com/docs

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

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm, that's troubling. What browser and OS are you using? Having read your comments I realized I haven't tested it on high zoom in safari (or at all on Internet Explorer or Edge).

Safari on Mac, for example at 950x950, shows them stacking. Looks like Firefox on Mac is ok.

Interesting. Thanks for letting me know about this. I'll get it fixed this evening.

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

#29
I made something similar but a bit more random.

https://randomdomain.benbristow.co.uk

Keeps taking a random word from an English dictionary and a random popular domain extension (com/net/org etc.), pings it and returns the first one that responds.

Quite fun once you sift through the parking pages. I need to work on something to detect those.

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

#30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What submissions failed?

.land .network .live were some which failed

Can you try now? I modified the client side regex to make it much more permissive. I was able to successfully submit a few with .network, .land, and .live.
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