Title is wrong, isn’t it Wander?
Yes, I am not sure how I managed to mess up the project name. I have emailed the moderators to ask for help in fixing it.
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Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
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Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
#42Very cool. Reminds me of stumbleupon, which I lost many hours to back in the day.
Curated discovery is one of biggest gripes with modern platforms like youtube - discovering something truly new and outside of your normal interests is really difficult, and the same goes for the web. If you have a topic you want to explore it's fine, but finding random things you'd never have thought of yourself is much harder.
Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
#43Seems like a perfect addition to any links page.
Would it be possible to create a list of sites with a Wander?
Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
#44It includes only 17 URLs: https://susam.net/wander/wander.js
17 + 11 URLs from https://dahlstrand.net/wander/wander.js + 26 URLs from https://www.siddharthagolu.com/wander/wander.js that I link to from the above link. So 54 URLs so far. The number of URLs grow as more people add this tool to their website and add each other as neighbours. The tool is capable of discovering neighbouring consoles and showing URLs from there.
Did we just reinvent webrings 25 years later? :)
(Not a diss. Webrings were cool.)
Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
#45Hello HN! This tool is inspired by Kagi Small Web (recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410542 ). A common concern raised here is that Kagi Small Web currently accepts only blogs, comics and YouTube channels. It does not accept arbitrary small websites. That limitation motivated me to build Wander. Wander is fully decentralised. Anyone can host it on their own website. It consists of just two files:…
This is so delightful! I'll be deploying this and sharing a link on the issue.
One issue I see: If I get you to include a link to my console but I don't link to any others, I can trap wanderers within my recommendations until they refresh.
If that's not desirable, it could be avoided by having the client keep a running list of all the consoles it has discovered this session and choosing from that list at random.
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#47Title is wrong, isn’t it Wander?
Yes, I am not sure how I managed to mess up the project name. I have emailed the moderators to ask for help in fixing it.
That was me sorry! I was quickly fixing it up while a meeting was starting, and I hurriedly re-typed it rather than copying+pasting like I should always do with project names.
Re: Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
#48Hello HN! This tool is inspired by Kagi Small Web (recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410542 ). A common concern raised here is that Kagi Small Web currently accepts only blogs, comics and YouTube channels. It does not accept arbitrary small websites. That limitation motivated me to build Wander. Wander is fully decentralised. Anyone can host it on their own website. It consists of just two files:…
This is so delightful! I'll be deploying this and sharing a link on the issue. One issue I see: If I get you to include a link to my console but I don't link to any others, I can trap wanderers within my recommendations until they refresh. If that's not desirable, it could be avoided by having the client keep a running list of all the consoles it has discovered this session and choosing from that list at random.
Glad you like it. Yes, you are right. This is something I realised too initially as a natural consequence of being the only participant in the console network at the beginning. Keeping a list of discovered consoles is exactly what I was thinking too. I built this tool rather quickly as a proof-of-concept while taking a break from another activity, so I couldn't quite find the time to implement this solution. But I might implement it in the next update. Thank you for taking a close look at this project!
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#50It would be cool if the javascript were re-written a bit to only use standard long existing javascript features so one didn't have to run a modern corporate browser to use the "wander" functionality. It did not work in my browser even with JS enabled.