Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

text.blogosphere.app

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

201–210 of 217 posts

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

#201

Post by manuelmoreale »

sailfast wrote: post #172
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.

I love the idea of returning to this to be honest. What was missing was the big awesome list of RSS feeds haha. This is actually a great idea. The key is to actually continue to do this and not gatekeep and charge money for promoted crap and add algorithms once it seems profitable to do so. If that happens we’re just recreating the wheel!

If what you're missing is the big list of RSS I have something for you: https://blogroll.org/all.opml

This will automatically download the OPML file for all the blogs that have an RSS address filed on blogroll.org

There's a bit of everything in there but if what you want is a wild ride maybe you can give that a try.

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

#202

Post by manuelmoreale »

blackbrokkoli wrote: post #121
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.

Do you have any idea what killed webrings? It seems to be simply a great idea...like...should we bring it back? Could we?

Webrings are very much still a thing and Ray has an awesome page on his site all about them https://brisray.com/utils/webrings.htm

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

#204

Post by carte_blanche »

Looks nice!

It's getting hard to keep up with all the recent posts on indie web aggregators (a good problem to have!). I've observed that I always get excited about seeing one such tool -> try to make it a habit to visit those aggregators occasionally -> forget about them -> rinse and repeat.

A great execution on the problem of discovery within the blogosphere is Wander, which was posted here a few days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422759. I discover great, small websites not because I found them in any aggregator's list, but more often via someone whose opinions I trust recommended a particular post to me. Wander executes on that idea rather brilliantly.

I've found myself going to my Wander console[^1] more regularly now and I keep finding great folks to follow.

[^1]: https://www.siddharthagolu.com/wander/

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

#206

Post by AndrewStephens »

paulnpace wrote: post #45
AndrewStephens wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven’t had comments on my blog for over a decade now and I don’t miss them. For every useful and informative comment I got several spammy or rude reply. Anyone who wants to let me know something about my blog can message me on social media. I’ve seen blogs that do not host comments themselves but instead automatically surface social media (usually mastodon) comments which I think is a useful technique.

> Anyone who wants to let me know something about my blog can message me on social media. But, can they?

Well, probably. And if not there is always good old fashioned email.

Almost nobody actually contacts me but it is technically possible.

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

#210

Post by blackbrokkoli »

sneak wrote: post #147
blackbrokkoli wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instead of having that one god-author who has to keep maintaining everything, I think a better option may be to have the whole comprehensively community-maintained. Which opens up the question: How do you open source structured data and maintenance?

I know people don’t like to hear this, but blockchains are great for publishing an append only public log that gets widely replicated.

What does this achieve over, say, git? This is hardly a zero-trust situation, is it?
Post reply on HN