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Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This would be overwhelmed with AI slop within days. Why so? What's the logic? With ooh.directory, one person is curating it. With a community project, 10 people may curate it. What makes 10 people curating the list more susceptible to slop?
I think the challenge would be picking those 10 people, in a way that is satisfying to you and everyone. (Is there a good way to find 9 like-minded people on the internet who have spare time?) And to prevent commercial and political interests from joining the community, and later overwhelming the original core team. I think you're asking the author to organize a structure like Wikipedia, with talk pages and topic exp…
This I understand very well. It wasn't my question though. No, I wasn't asking anybody to organize a structure like Wikipedia. I was challenging the parent's comment where they said:
>> This would be overwhelmed with AI slop within days.
So I asked:
> What makes 10 people curating the list more susceptible to slop?
I think a 10 person project would be less susceptible to slop than a 1 person project because more people can catch more slop or so I think. So I really wanted to understand why the grandparent thinks a 10 person project would be more susceptible to slop.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
The no ai webring is full of really unique stuff. There’s definitively people out there still doing webrings. Now we need a metawebring. https://baccyflap.com/noai/
Slop sucks and all, but those abandoned "let's make pages look like geocities" sites are pretty tiresome.
Because you don't find them visually interesting or because of their content?
There's a whole world of modern unindexed handcoded html + light js sites that really hearken back to the mid-90s web, and they're often part of webrings.
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#124I just discovered this site and found it interesting, just a bit of feedback: AFAICT there is no way to filter between paywalled and non-paywalled websites, I wish there was one!
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#125The problem with https://ooh.directory/ is that nobody can tell what gets added and what doesn't. Submissions go through an opaque review process and a lot of good submissions don't make it. Just try searching your favorite bloggers in ooh.directory. 9 out of 10 times they'll be missing from the directory. I'd prefer a more transparent directory where we can can tell why something is or isn't added.
Hi, it’s my site. I’m sorry you don’t feel this hobby site run by one person doesn’t have a sufficiently transparent process. The process is: I add blogs that are interesting, recently-updated, etc, when I have time. And there’s only so much of that in life. Another problem is that I like to add a variety of sites so that people following what’s recently added don’t get swamped by loads of blogs on one topic. And las…
> I’m sorry you don’t feel this hobby site run by one person doesn’t have a sufficiently transparent process
Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
#126The problem with https://ooh.directory/ is that nobody can tell what gets added and what doesn't. Submissions go through an opaque review process and a lot of good submissions don't make it. Just try searching your favorite bloggers in ooh.directory. 9 out of 10 times they'll be missing from the directory. I'd prefer a more transparent directory where we can can tell why something is or isn't added.
Why does it have to scratchpad your itch? You’re welcome to create and maintain your own resource. Have at it, nobody is stopping you and maybe you’ll bring your own ideas and perspective to curating blogs. Can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
#127The problem with https://ooh.directory/ is that nobody can tell what gets added and what doesn't. Submissions go through an opaque review process and a lot of good submissions don't make it. Just try searching your favorite bloggers in ooh.directory. 9 out of 10 times they'll be missing from the directory. I'd prefer a more transparent directory where we can can tell why something is or isn't added.
Hi, it’s my site. I’m sorry you don’t feel this hobby site run by one person doesn’t have a sufficiently transparent process. The process is: I add blogs that are interesting, recently-updated, etc, when I have time. And there’s only so much of that in life. Another problem is that I like to add a variety of sites so that people following what’s recently added don’t get swamped by loads of blogs on one topic. And las…
Perfect reply. Thank you for your efforts. I’ve bookmarked and favorited your website.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
We aren’t users here though; we’re visitors.
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#129I love that blogging is taking off a bit again, and I think this trend will last.
I built BoredReading.com a few years ago because I enjoy reading but hate having to curate my own feeds, so this is a done for you kinda app.
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#130I am pretty happy with https://marginalia-search.com/ . It's kind of my secondary search engine at this point. I can always search for anything and find indie websites writing about the topic. It also helps with the dread of not having to add my personal site to yet another blog curation site which I don't know will: 1. Be maintained in the longer term. 2. Would be willing to add my site to the curation site.
This has already helped me find extremely useful writings on a niche topic of mine. Thank you!