How I decide if your website is worth a revisit
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#2Hey, kinda new here. Would like to know your thoughts on this. Would be interested in knowing how you decide if some blog which you hop on from HN or elsewhere is worth a second visit. HN is one of the few places which is filled with people who use RSS a lot even today, so thought it would be worth submitting this article here I wrote to get some discussion going
Also to make it clear, this is a self-submission. Although in future, I will also try to share some other things as well which I find interesting
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#4The number one reason is good content, the other seem superfluous.
It’s nice if it’s not published in a walled garden, but it’s not a stopper.
Then I personally don’t care about needing JS to view the site (it’s 2024…) nor the RSS feed.
And regarding the no-captcha, never found one to read the site besides Cloudfare versification from time to time, and it doesn’t bother me.
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#5I have a quick rule and is only rule #1 in your list: if a site or blog has posted interesting updates within the last two months, I'll follow, subscribe, or add it to my feed. Otherwise, it simply goes into my bookmarks. I've long stoped paying attention to, UI, ADs, fast responses or JavaScript, as you mention I also use Ad blockers, for me they always work, for the exceptions most probably the content is not worthy of searching for a workaround.
For me, if it's interesting content and volume are key. If it captivates me and there's plenty of it, I'll follow. If it's interesting but scarce, it earns a spot in my bookmarks, for the rest, I will try to remember how to search it on Google
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#6>Your site should be completely usable without JavaScript... If your site is not usable without JavaScript, I am not coming back in any way
The search page on the site doesn't work with js disabled.
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#7I've tried to follow people on medium, twitter, bluesky, mastodon, blog RSS feeds, youtube, etc and there is typically just too much off topic noise.
I visit personal sites or individual posts on larger platforms when searching for topics.
The places I revisit are curated (in some way) sites focusing on areas of interest. Hacker News, The Verge, sub reddits, various news portals, slashdot, etc.
I'm hoping that following hashtags or similar will eventually work out.
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#8>Your site should be completely usable without JavaScript... If your site is not usable without JavaScript, I am not coming back in any way The search page on the site doesn't work with js disabled.
Thanks, I know that it requires JavaScript. I haven't framed that sentence properly in my blog, what I meant to say was "Your site should be usable without JS, it's fine if additional functionality needs JS but basic functionality should work without JS like viewing the content". Also the site's source code is available at: https://github.com/thunder-coding/CodingThunder in case you want to checkout.
Re: How I decide if your website is worth a revisit
#9I've tried to follow people on medium, twitter, bluesky, mastodon, blog RSS feeds, youtube, etc and there is typically just too much off topic noise. I visit personal sites or individual posts on larger platforms when searching for topics. The places I revisit are curated (in some way) sites focusing on areas of interest. Hacker News, The Verge, sub reddits, various news portals, slashdot, etc. I'm hoping that follow…
> I've tried to follow people on medium, twitter, bluesky, mastodon, blog RSS feeds, youtube, etc and there is typically just too much off topic noise.
Yeah totally agree that it produces a lot of noise. I too do checkout sites like HN, subreddits like r/cpp, r/webdev, etc periodically to discover stuff, and it really filters a lot of stuff.
Also sorting RSS feeds into multiple folders in a tree like fashion has helped me so far. I started using RSS faily recently (like 2 months), got do know of it in January when on Mastodon people were remembering of Aaron Swartz. Loved the idea of RSS and instantly got addicted to it. So yeah, might end up with a unusable feed soon since I am quite new to this thing. Let's see what happens.
> 'm hoping that following hashtags or similar will eventually work out.
Following hashtags too produces a lot of noise for me, especially on the Fediverse, subreddits work much better. Also you can just follow subreddits using RSS, which is also a nice thing to have IMO.
Re: How I decide if your website is worth a revisit
#10Hey, kinda new here. Would like to know your thoughts on this. Would be interested in knowing how you decide if some blog which you hop on from HN or elsewhere is worth a second visit. HN is one of the few places which is filled with people who use RSS a lot even today, so thought it would be worth submitting this article here I wrote to get some discussion going Also to make it clear, this is a self-submission. Alth…
Two questions:
1. Where's the link to the RSS feed on your site
2. What RSS feed reader are you using?