Looking through the list sorted by HN points I've come across quite a few that have not been updated in anything from two to five years.
Perhaps it'd be a good idea to add a "last post on" or some other indicator of activity.
Curated list of personal blogs
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#122Awesome, I agree, personal blogs are great. I can't help but notice all the blogs tagged "software" in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining? I missed out on the whole RSS thing when it was popular. My sense was that it solved the problem of knowing when, among a whole bunch of blogs, a site had new content. Perhaps it exists, I want a…
RSS is still popular[ly-supported]. It's not too late. I felt exactly the way you did for a long time. Eventually, I decided to invest in setting up a more healthy and symmetric relationship with information, like you describe. I realized RSS was the right tool for this goal. I'd definitely recommend trying this, even if you don't have the gall to self-host. It feels like I get three square meals a day, instead of in…
Squarespace pages don’t always have a feed, unfortunately
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#123This is great. I’ve found some to follow with my RSS reader, https://sumi.news
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry, are you suggesting that these things didn't happen? Because that is the only translation I have of "getting your news from." Is the idea that the NBC San Diego branch just ... made this up? That the BBC ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d70h ) fabricated this wholesale? Let's just click through some of those hyperlinks in the Unherd thing. https://fringeassociation.com/2019/01/07/2019-my-year-of-col..…
I'm not saying they don't happen, what I'm saying is if you immerse yourself in a constant stream of "here's a bad thing that happened to one person out of the dozens of millions of people who created content on the Internet today", you'll get a really distorted view of what's actually happening. It's like never leaving your house because you see shootings and murder reports every day on local news. You're missing ou…
This is the sad part.
If your news diet is consumed by negative press and sad stories, they become more readily available[0] to you and can affect your decisions adversely by making you think that the base rate of such bad events are more common than they really are[1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
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#125I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.
Interesting, I came to post the same thing. It's a shame, semi-permanent communication now represents an attack surface for randos hoping for their free-floating rage to find a surface upon which it might condense. In a sense, this provides little benefit to you except as an outlet and perhaps as a way to exercise writing skills, learning about a blogging platform, perhaps SEO (or not!), and so forth, but now the pos…
I think the biggest issue is that those who are most moderate, most interested in nuance, and the most correct are most likely to be grey rocks. True believers who are committed to their views are most likely to be outspoken, since they value that belief above other considerations.
In short, we will breed a society dictated by extremes.
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#126I really wish that it was easier for non-technically minded people to submit blogs to this list.
It would really help if the owner of this site made a web form that didn't require you to have a Github account to submit things (or even understand how to hand-type the weird json format that they want)
I estimate that extra amount of user abrasion is preventing something like 99% of people from submitting their blogs.
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#127Is there a good way to search (e.g. like a Google search) only personal blogs and homepages? I was looking into this the other day, but couldn't figure out a solution.
https://millionshort.com only searches the webpages that lay outside of the top 10,000 100,000 or 1,000,000
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you want is RSS, but you don't need to learn how it works at all. Go to feedly.com and create a (free) account. Add sites you want to follow (there's an 'add content' button which lets you search by URL). Done. Feedly will give you a home page with titles and blurbs, and for many sites you can even get the 'reader mode' content without navigating to the site directly. [Not affiliated with feedly, just a happy us…
Have you tried Inoreader? cheaper and better than Feedly. I wasn't too happy with Feedly's UI and found it very confusing.
What was confusing?
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#129Hi, nowadays blogging is becoming less and less popular and people use twitter as their personal blog. This site is created to provide curated list of fine blogs, provided with their tags,feed links and hackernews page. The site is hosted on github and you can contribute to it if you want.
Is the idea that it should focus on software only?
no of course, for example I am big fan of history bloggers. but it's very hard to find that kind of blogs. if you know such of blogs please contribute the project. if we have enough bloggers list we can create subdomains like (history.refined.blog , art.refined.blog ). it will be perfect
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#130Hi, nowadays blogging is becoming less and less popular and people use twitter as their personal blog. This site is created to provide curated list of fine blogs, provided with their tags,feed links and hackernews page. The site is hosted on github and you can contribute to it if you want.
you should not sort alphabetically, people wil strategically name their blogs to appear at the top... Make some sort of random sort the default
yes you're right, also there is github issue which about same topic. i will solve that