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Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Post by chrisaldrich »

Jaruzel wrote: post #4

Following on from this excellent article, would other HN users care to share the URLs of their personal webspaces? Mine is: http://www.jaruzel.com (yes, I know it's not SSL'd!)

This is a definitely a fun idea. Andy Bell created a project a year ago to do just this sort of thing. Try out: https://personalsit.es/

Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Post by stugrey »

Jaruzel wrote: post #4

Following on from this excellent article, would other HN users care to share the URLs of their personal webspaces? Mine is: http://www.jaruzel.com (yes, I know it's not SSL'd!)

https://www.stugrey.com

Just revamped mine at the weekend and now much happier with it. Trying to better split out my research from public engagement and other miscellanea.

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Post by weci2i »

runninganyways wrote: post #90

I think I know why personal websites aren't popular anymore. It's the same reason retro video games aren't as fun as they were when they came out. What's missing is the context of the time when they were popular. They were new and had a high-tech aura about them. Nowadays making a website doesn't differentiate you in a good way unless you have a super creative way of coming up with the website and a lot of content to…

You are probably onto something with this train of thought. I had an Angelfire website when I was 17 in the 90's. All my friends were blown away by my terrible design and color choices because they weren't on the web. Putting something accessible by the entire world out there seemed like magic to them. The web in general felt much more magical then.

Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Post by chrisaldrich »

citizenkeen wrote: post #163
benwerd wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I write regularly at https://werd.io - about tech, politics, the intersection thereof, and some personal stuff. I use Known, a platform I cofounded, which supports the Webmentions / IndieWeb ecosystem described in the article. https://github.com/idno/known

The known documentation makes it seem like you can just sign up for a play site with withknown, but that doesn't appear to be the case anymore?

I think they turned off the free sites/hosting a year or two ago, but the opensource project is still around and doing well. It's not hard to spin up an instance with the opensource software and I think there are still a few hosts like Reclaim Hosting that offer one button installs of it.

Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Post by chrisaldrich »

banfeld wrote: post #157
chrisweekly wrote: post #111

Anyone else remember "web rings" from the 1990's?

Yes. There are a few smaller webrings about, but blog discovery is a problem unsolved.

Here's a list of several including an "IndieWeb Ring" that was started in the last two years that features personal websites: https://indieweb.org/webring

Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Post by weci2i »

chrisweekly wrote: post #111

Anyone else remember "web rings" from the 1990's?

It's funny that you mention this. I was just explaining to a young coworker how we basically had social networking in the 90's. My friends and I (even nontechnical kids) all maintained Geocities, Angelfire, and Tripod pages. We'd load them up with free scripts for counters, guestbooks, and cheesy popup messages. Then we'd all link around to each others' pages and follow each other with web rings.

Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Post by lukaszkups »

Jaruzel wrote: post #4

Following on from this excellent article, would other HN users care to share the URLs of their personal webspaces? Mine is: http://www.jaruzel.com (yes, I know it's not SSL'd!)

https://lukaszkups.net with blog at https://lukaszkups.net/notes/ - feel free to take a look around! ;)

Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Post by simonsarris »

Pete_D wrote: post #140
simonsarris wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://simonsarris.com/ Updated to have Simeville, a css village. Gonna remake it in Canvas though.

I hope you keep the pure-CSS version around somewhere, because that is technically amazing. I thought I'd accidentally disabled umatrix when I first saw it.

oh that's a good idea. I'll do that.

I was really bummed going from a site where anyone could easily see how it was made and read the source code via view source, to Gatsby/React where its unintelligible. But to have animations persist across "pages" it was necessary to switch. This is what index.html and layout.css used to look like:

https://github.com/simonsarris/site-simonsarris/blob/faf3eb7...

https://github.com/simonsarris/site-simonsarris/blob/faf3eb7...

Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Post by vlucas »

Great article. I have thought a lot about personal websites and the lack of any built-in "social" aspect. Comments, forums, guestbooks, webrings, topsites, etc. all used to be commonplace, and these have all but disappeared as social networks have risen.

I am not sure that any of these ideas themselves will make a comeback, but a remix of them might fill some gaps that exist today, especially with discovery.

My attempt at a social discovery network of sorts, for content websites: https://cruton.app

It's a Reddit-style presentation, but instead of votes, it ranks URLs purely on traffic and qualitative metrics. Add it to your site if you want to help me test it out and improve it :)

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