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

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

cosmicgadget wrote: post #83
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

I have submitted it again after reading your comment. I definitely feel like certain discussions can happen on linkhut side which will be both interesting to read/write on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629452

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

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Post by BizarroLand »

kypro wrote: post #94
ramkarthikk wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No plans to add a filter for "lower quality" since that takes away from the ethos of RSS. Certainly looking to add more ways to filter. Open to ideas.

It's refreshing to to see something intentionally uncurated. I think "low quality" content has it's place. A lot of my favourite blogs back in the day could be considered "low quality", but for whatever reason I liked them and read their stuff... Same was true of my own blog. It wasn't particularly high quality but back then even a lowish quality blog would still occasionally be surfaced on Google if the right key wo…

If you think about it, Shakespeare's first poem was probably crap. If his entire career were judged from that, then we wouldn't have Hamlet.

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

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Post by Siecje »

ramkarthikk wrote: post #16
setnone wrote: post #12

This is great. I'm curious what's your vision on adding comments?

If you're referring to comments on the website, I plan to keep it minimal (the text version is a static site). If you're referring to comments on blogs in general, I have many thoughts. Back in the day, comments used to be how you connected with people and let other people find you. It also came with spam (spam plugins could only do so much). With the rise of static site generators, most people don't have comments on…

There is cusdis[1] for comments on a static site.

1: https://cusdis.com/

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

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Post by ramkarthikk »

susam wrote: post #117

This is a very nice project! Thank you for creating it and sharing it here on HN. I like the minimal version more but the modern version is quite nice too. I would probably stick to the minimal version but since it seems to lack the search feature I end up using the modern version for that. By the way, some minor issues I found: 1. In the minimal version, when browsing the list of blogs I cannot get past page 12. The…

Thank you for the detailed feedback. I'm glad you like this project.

1. Yeah, there are definitely more blogs. Seems like an issue paginating and fetching it at build time. I will check this. 2. I generally don't prefer infinite scroll but since people are used to it on social media, I kept it on the modern version. It does make it impossible to see the footer. I will figure out a way around this. In the meantime, the "Submit" page should display the footer.

I'm also going to add search to the minimal version since I also prefer it over the modern version and search is useful.

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

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Post by krapp »

kypro wrote: post #94
ramkarthikk wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No plans to add a filter for "lower quality" since that takes away from the ethos of RSS. Certainly looking to add more ways to filter. Open to ideas.

It's refreshing to to see something intentionally uncurated. I think "low quality" content has it's place. A lot of my favourite blogs back in the day could be considered "low quality", but for whatever reason I liked them and read their stuff... Same was true of my own blog. It wasn't particularly high quality but back then even a lowish quality blog would still occasionally be surfaced on Google if the right key wo…

"quality" is something you care about if you want to virtue signal your professional or intellectual capability, usually as part of a monetization scheme. Hacker News cares so much about quality because this forum is attached to a billion dollar startup incubator, and for many people here their persona is business. Posting on substack is business for most people. Posting on medium is business for most people. "Quality" is just another kind of influencer culture.

Writing blogs shouldn't be about marketing and reading blogs shouldn't be about maximizing information density. The vast vast majority of blogs on the old web that everyone yearns to return to weren't "high quality." You were just writing about whatever, likely in a style that would get you downvoted on HN for being insufficiently substantive, and if you were lucky someone else might read it.

I wouldn't even call it "low quality" so much as "non-commercial."

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

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Post by voxleone »

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.

We're heading to a future where (when) friction is a luxury. Anyways, I thank the organizers for the rare opportunity. Long live Blogosphere.app, long live blogs.
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