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

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

#131

The 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…

Hey - just wanted to say thank you.

I wanted to make a blog and used your site to find interesting looking blogs for inspiration.

It was wonderful <3

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

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post #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

Oh neat! I went and shared this with some Brazilian friends of mine. They tend to like stuff like this so I think it will make them happy.

I know I enjoyed checking out some sites you have in that list (using translation) so thanks!

I love browsing outside the anglosphere but it can be challenging sometimes finding curators that find regular new sites or posts to check out when other languages aren't part of your regular browsing routine.

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

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post #3

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.

The first blog i found on this website was full of ai generated image slop

https://www.bankeronwheels.com/

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

#134

I 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!

I wouldn't intentionally add a site that is entirely paywalled, so let me know if you come across one!

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

#135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

That's the kind of visitor I was talking about.

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

#136

The 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.

Plenty of blog aggravators with transparent curation processes exist, and are terrible. No need to make this one like the other others that are worse than it.

> blog aggravators

Love it

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

#137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 .

Great point, but why call it a directory then rather than someone’s personal recommendations?
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