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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"?
Yes. With comments.
Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
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#142In my database of Internet links I have many personal blogs:
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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. Label…
Calling something "entitlement" is an easy way to shut down discussion without engaging with the argument.
I have evaluated your discussion. I have read as many of your 'explanations' of your argument until I got a headache from rolling my eyes so hard. I find it petulant and entitled, and I called it out as such. Obviously, no discussion was shut down because here you are.
The only thing I am asking for is a bit of courtesy in return for the effort spent curating and submitting material.
And everyone else on the thread has made clear you are not owed this. No, the maintainer is not obligated to respond to every random submission to validate the time you took.
But suggesting that I'm somehow challenging the maintainer's right to make decisions about their own project is both inaccurate and disingenuous.
You clearly said a couple of lines up "The only thing I am asking for is a bit of courtesy in return for the effort spent curating and submitting material." You have done nothing but argue for your entitlement to tell the maintainer they are obligated to stroke your ego for submitting something. "Inaccurate and disingenuous" indeed.
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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.
My mtg site is kind of one of those. I use a static site generator, but I wrote the html templates and CSS myself to match the aesthetic I wanted.
I have robots.txt configured to keep it mostly unmolested, but I don't think it's fully unindexed.
That said, it's not very evocative of 90s web style. I do not miss those days (despite being the owner of a webhosting/design company at the time).
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Let's bring back the webring.
As someone who wasn't around in their true heyday I'm all for it.
Webrings were cool, and I wish I could find some for my own niche hobbies that were curated by dedicated parties.
I also miss Guestbooks, but know that they'd just be a cesspool now.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
My mtg site is kind of one of those. I use a static site generator, but I wrote the html templates and CSS myself to match the aesthetic I wanted. I have robots.txt configured to keep it mostly unmolested, but I don't think it's fully unindexed. That said, it's not very evocative of 90s web style. I do not miss those days (despite being the owner of a webhosting/design company at the time).
mtg as in magic the gathering?. You can't mention a personal website without linking the website itself
i would love to take a look
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Let's bring back the webring.
I'm part of one and I don't think it really promotes discoverability. What could work would be some kind of search engine restricted to said webring to make a button to list similar articles. At least I would click on such a button!
I'm on the Merveilles ring and it has such a local/"neighbourhood" search, hosted by one of the members: https://lieu.cblgh.org
Pretty cool, and seems easy to set up
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#149I 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!
Just sharing what I know. :)