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Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

#111

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You do seem particularly offended or annoyed that some blogs you suggested have not yet appeared on the site. You can read the FAQ article to see the criteria for what’s accepted, and also reasons why suggested blogs haven’t yet appeared. Ultimately it’s my own hobby site and so I decide what is “good” or “interesting” - so long as it meets the other criteria.

> You do seem particularly offended or annoyed that some blogs you suggested have not yet appeared on the site. I'm not offended. Just a little frustrated that I took the time to make some submissions of blogs I thought were missing but never heard anything back. But you're right that it is your hobby site, so you get to decide what goes in.

The sole person running this site doesn't find the same things interesting than you do. How dare they.

The sense of entitlement displayed is really breathtaking.

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

#112

I also maintain a human-curated directory (and search engine) of personal blogs at https://minifeed.net You can submit a blog here: https://minifeed.net/suggest Criteria is pretty simple: - Must be written by a human. - Must be in English (for now). - Must have a valid RSS feed. - Must not be purely a "micro-blog", i.e. must have some content other than tweet-sized status updates or links.

> Must be written by a human How does one ascertain this?

Honor system and smell test, I would think

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

#114

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But random orders lend themselves better for discovery? If somebody’s site is just AAA they will be at the top of the list forever, what value is there in that?

The value is that it's slightly easier to browse an alphabetical list than a random one (no, I don't have a citation for this). But, yes, it would be nice to have the option to change the sort order, as well as the current filtering. One day, if it doesn't make the UI too complicated. I value simplicity.

if you know what you're looking for sure, but what if you're not looking for any specific site in particular, like the vast majority of people who visit?

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

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Dmoz was trying to replicate the Yahoo! style of directory, which requires being comprehensive. Today we don't need comprehensive, we need maximum signal and minimum noise.

If you're not trying to be comprehensive it's not a real directory, it's just an ordinary "awesome-list".

would you call HN just "an awesome list"?

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

#116
post #58

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Just wanted to say: thank you for making and maintaining this. I’m sorry that so many of the initial comments on this HN post are from one person complaining that their submissions didn’t get accepted. That’s the thing with the personal web: it’s personal! It’s what that person wants, which happens to be the thing that makes it great. If you don’t like it, the rest of the internet is still there.

To be fair, I appreciate the technical effort it takes to build and maintain a directory like this. It isn't lost on me that many people like it. Kudos to the author for creating this. I absolutely don't mean to be negative about it. But that shouldn't stop me from sharing my experience as a user. That it feels frustrating when I spend time making a bunch of submissions and I never hear anything back. But yeah, it's…

>I was more interested in finding something less personal and more community-ish. where the power to add or reject submissions does not lie with one individual. Wouldn't that be nice?

So, Hacker News?

Otherwise, be the change you want to see. if you haven't hit critical mass, the "community" will likely be 1-2 people getting he community off the ground anyway. How and if you want to scale from there will vary based on the ones managing the site.

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

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Given how worried everyone is about the AI slopocalypse where the internet is drowned in LLM-generated junk content maybe it's time for a resurgence of human curated directories like this one.

Let's bring back the webring.

As someone who wasn't around in their true heyday I'm all for it.

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

#119
I'm working on something similar for Brazilian blogs. For now it's a collection of ~500 blogs, and I plan to expand it by following external links found in these blogs and then somehow finding out which are links to other br blogs.

Not really a curated list, but I would welcome projects that filter the existing blogs into categories and etc.

https://guilhermegarcia.dev/brcrawl

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

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post #111

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> You do seem particularly offended or annoyed that some blogs you suggested have not yet appeared on the site. I'm not offended. Just a little frustrated that I took the time to make some submissions of blogs I thought were missing but never heard anything back. But you're right that it is your hobby site, so you get to decide what goes in.

The sole person running this site doesn't find the same things interesting than you do. How dare they. The sense of entitlement displayed is really breathtaking.

> The sole person running this site doesn't find the same things interesting than you do.

That misses the point. I know the site is run by a single maintainer and they are free to accept or decline whatever they choose. I have no qualms about it.

> The sense of entitlement displayed is really breathtaking.

Calling something "entitlement" is an easy way to shut down discussion without engaging with the argument. Labeling a concern instead of addressing it feels like a weak response. Good thing is that the maintainer did address my concern in a separate reply instead of just shrugging it off as "entitlement" and for that I'm thankful to him.

I respect the maintainer's authority over their own site. The only thing I am asking for is a bit of courtesy in return for the effort spent curating and submitting material. I do not expect submissions to be accepted, only that rejected ones receive a brief acknowledgement. If expecting that minimal level of courtesy counts as entitlement, then so be it. We all operate within a shared community, and I am only asking for the kind of consideration I try to extend to others myself.

If you missed it, I've also apologized to the maintainer for being a pain in these threads. My comments come off as overly negative and I'm aware of that. For that I apologize. But I also want to say that my frustration comes from putting effort into collecting good blogs (retrocomputing and gaming kind), submitting them, and then seeing no response or action. The maintainer has since explained that there's a large backlog which makes the situation understandable.

So in the end, all I can do is apologize. But suggesting that I'm somehow challenging the maintainer's right to make decisions about their own project is both inaccurate and disingenuous.

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