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Re: Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

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Post by palata »

coldpie wrote: post #31
Hard_Space wrote: post #9

Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this, both of which I remember well. That's not a criticism! I guess that the quality-drop in search wasn't quite enough to make it happen, but the advent of AI content predomination will be.

> Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this One of these hand-curated blog aggregator websites pops up on HN about every month. They're cool and good on the author for trying to solve the problem, but it seems like the wrong approach to me. They're too disorganized, a random collection of mostly tech- and politics-related writing from random people with zero way to vet the qu…

> The low-tech version could be to put a static-URL page on my blog that links to other blogs I like

I think OpenRing does that? [1]. Not my blog, just linking for illustration, but you can see how it looks here at the bottom of the page: https://drewdevault.com/2020/02/06/Dependencies-and-maintain...

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring

Re: Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

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Post by cosmicgadget »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #61
coldpie wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this One of these hand-curated blog aggregator websites pops up on HN about every month. They're cool and good on the author for trying to solve the problem, but it seems like the wrong approach to me. They're too disorganized, a random collection of mostly tech- and politics-related writing from random people with zero way to vet the qu…

> I wonder if webrings are a better fix here. The low-tech version could be to put a static-URL page on my blog that links to other blogs I like, with a short description. Then people who find my blog interesting might also enjoy the blogs that I enjoy. That could be powerful if it caught on widely. I have been doing this by linking my linkhut profile with either my profile picture (I used to) or just mentioning it i…

That is a cool project. Sorry to see it not get out of /new.

Re: Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

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Post by Lerc »

coldpie wrote: post #31
Hard_Space wrote: post #9

Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this, both of which I remember well. That's not a criticism! I guess that the quality-drop in search wasn't quite enough to make it happen, but the advent of AI content predomination will be.

> Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this One of these hand-curated blog aggregator websites pops up on HN about every month. They're cool and good on the author for trying to solve the problem, but it seems like the wrong approach to me. They're too disorganized, a random collection of mostly tech- and politics-related writing from random people with zero way to vet the qu…

I like the idea of tree curation. People view the branch of their interest. Anyone can submit anything to any point but are unlikely to be noticed if they submit closer to the trunk. Curated lists submit their lists to curators closer to the trunk.

The furthest branches have the least volume (need filters to stop bulk submission to all levels, but still allow some multi submission). It allows curators to contribute in a small field. They then submit their preferred items to the next level up. If that curator likes it they send it further. A leaf level curator can bypass any curator above but with the same risk of being ignored if the higher level node receives too much volume.

You could even run fully AI branches where their picks would only make all the way up by convincing a human curator somewhere above them of the quality. If they don't do a good job they would just be ignored. People can listen to them direct if they are so inclined

Re: Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

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Post by glenstein »

ramkarthikk wrote: post #64
glenstein wrote: post #50

Love this! I very much appreciate the inclusion of a lightweight version, as I think lightweight discovery for blogs and the small web is where good tools and apps are needed. Also, given that the lightweight version is very hn styled format it naturally leads my brain to imagining a version with upvotes and commenters (which may be a good or a bad thing) but with the link submission part automated. Not necessarily t…

Thank you. The initial list was from blogroll.org (mentioned in the about page, and I emailed the person who built that). From then on, I review every submission that happens via the form. The scheduler flags blogs that fail and doesn't try to fetch after a few tries. I'm still working on an effective way to re-review and prune. Open to any feedback.

I suppose my dream would be that the protocolization of this from back in the day gets revived in some way. Like a google pagecrawl style index built up from blogrolls (though I don't know if the blogroll itself was ever literally protocol-ized), combined with some checking of RSS feeds for activity. Or webrings, or something else.

Though in some respects these are less smart than what you're already doing, but I would like to think there's an elegant way to make an index emerge organically to minimize the editorial burden of any one person.

Re: Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

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Post by cosmicgadget »

coldpie wrote: post #31
Hard_Space wrote: post #9

Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this, both of which I remember well. That's not a criticism! I guess that the quality-drop in search wasn't quite enough to make it happen, but the advent of AI content predomination will be.

> Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this One of these hand-curated blog aggregator websites pops up on HN about every month. They're cool and good on the author for trying to solve the problem, but it seems like the wrong approach to me. They're too disorganized, a random collection of mostly tech- and politics-related writing from random people with zero way to vet the qu…

> people who find my blog interesting might also enjoy the blogs that I enjoy. That could be powerful if it caught on widely.

Imho this is better at the blog post level of granularity. Sometimes I will like someone's writing style, much more often I will be interested in topical recommended reading.

Re: Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

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Post by ramkarthikk »

sodapopcan wrote: post #82

Very nice, this is great! Love that you give the two UX options. FYI (bug report): In the non-minimal version, navigating by category is janky in FireFox. The logo briefly disappears with the nav jumping up in its place every time you click a category.

Ah, thank you. I will check this.
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