Exhaustive list of all blog directories I’ve heard of: https://perrotta.dev/2025/05/blog-directories/ (includes ooh.directory)
Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
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#152Given 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/
There is no ai in the content, in fact it's probably the best finance blog in Europe - the ai likely used it to be trained on. Cover images probably yes but they use their own characters. Anyways, cover images are not what you're there for. Content is absolutely top notch.
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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
Since you asked... https://thenethervoid.com/
There isn't a whole lot there currently, since I'm pretty slow to post. I'm working on some deck analysis pieces currently and have some community-focused articles in draft form on my laptop.
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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.
Yeah I have indexed a lot of em. I'm specifically talking about the ones that try to resemble the archetypal personal geocities site with tiled backgrounds, gifs, and whatnot. I've found that these predominantly were created as part of a web fad and were quickly abandoned.
I am all for handcoded html, SSGs, and minimal-to-no js.
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#155I 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!
Unfortunately I forgot which site it was and did not check if it was entirely paywalled, but if I find it again and it is I will let you know! Thank you!
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#156Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
#157Earlier 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.
Yeah I have indexed a lot of em. I'm specifically talking about the ones that try to resemble the archetypal personal geocities site with tiled backgrounds, gifs, and whatnot. I've found that these predominantly were created as part of a web fad and were quickly abandoned. I am all for handcoded html, SSGs, and minimal-to-no js.
I still enjoy those, because they're very true to the era. How many of us learned html by viewing source and copying bits from the sites we liked with no clearer vision than "I want that on my site, too!"?
To me, _any_ non-commercial human expression on the web is heartening, even if it lacks authenticity or taste. We've all been ruled by the effects of overreach of adtech for far too long.