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Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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Post by unsungNovelty » Sat, Mar 21, 2026, 5:38 AM UTC

SyneRyder wrote: post #235

unsungNovelty wrote: post #152

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Hey!!!!! That is my website! To be fair, the hard part is hard to keep a personal website regularly updated without making people think it's abandoned. I don't have a regular post cadence. So it looks like I don't touch the website at all for months. But I regularly update my posts and other sections event if there isn't any new posts. I also wrote something similar to OP - https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/10/2024…

Not sure if this will be considered helpful, but if you include: https://www.unsungnovelty.org/index.xml " /> in the HEAD of the pages on your website, it makes autodiscovery of the RSS feed a bit easier - not just for crawlers, but also for people with RSS plugins in their browser. It will make the RSS icon appear in their browser's URL field for easy subscription. Took me a while to find the RSS link at the bottom…

Thanks. Lemme look into that and will take the necessary actions.

Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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Post by unsungNovelty » Sat, Mar 21, 2026, 5:43 AM UTC

Noumenon72 wrote: post #247

unsungNovelty wrote: post #190

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Why should I auto-respond to a keyword? Just curious seeing it here buddy. Breathe easy.

Auto-responding when Google Alerts spots your keyword on a new site would help promote your website. I missed that "That" meant "the site that matches my username" so I had gone through a process of "how is this guy claiming to own https://kagi.com/smallweb " and "did he mean indieblog.page/random" and "why is he also saying he wrote something at unsungNovelty.org which doesn't match either of those". I never did fig…

No worries. But If I am behind numbers, my website will be completely different with post cadence far more regular. Not saying regular posts are bad. In fact, I am currently working on finishing my writing backlogs. But still, not everyone is behind numbers. Especially like SEO/google kind of numbers.

Re: The “small web” is bigger than you might think

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Post by sylware » Sat, Mar 21, 2026, 3:17 PM UTC

unsungNovelty wrote: post #220

sylware wrote: post #207

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Sadely this search engine is now javascript only. So the "small" web...

Couple of things. 1. No. It's not javascript only. https://old-search.marginalia.nu/ is still available. It is also mentioned in https://about.marginalia-search.com/article/redesign/ as gonna be there for a very long time. 2. I don't think just because it uses javascript make it bad. It's a very nice site now. I prefer it better than old version. My website doesn't use JS for any functionality yet. But I've never sai…

BTW, this should not be called "old-search" but "classic-search" as it will never be "old" until the web exist.