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Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by h0p3 »

dvtrn wrote: post #76
h0p3 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi zalberico, I'm h0p3. I can't say I get it either. My wiki is a place to store stuff and to tell myself linked stories. Maybe it is a hypertext castle, a rabbithole, a garden, a mind map, an exobrain, a Zettelkasten, an existential mirror or conduit. Despite significant effort, I'm not sure how to describe it well enough. It's a site I like to see. It's where I do muh thinkin, I tellyawhat. Also, Fraidyc.at works w…

Hello h0p3, I modeled much of my tiddlywiki (not public, used for life stuff more than a public repo of thoughts) after yours, and greatly enjoy your writing. Just figured you ought to hear that!

Hey dvtrn! That's high praise, thank you. =). I'm glad it's been useful.

It's my pleasure to meet you. I also remember reading your comments here on HN (I enjoy your sense of humor). Feel free to HMU anytime, even just to talk wiki-shop.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by asaibx »

My favourite portal for discovering sites like this is something I discovered just recently here on HN: https://wiby.me/

It never fails to amaze me how much amazing stuff is out there online, hidden by a thick layer of top search results, and even more than that, the sheer amount of individual and collective effort that has been put into each of these sites. Someone mentioned the word "niche" and there is certainly some weirdly (or wonderfully) specific content you will find in the Wiby.me index. Lots of sites that haven't been updated since 1998, but still have an enormous and encyclopedic list of everything related to some topic (like the characteristics of different types of tomatoes, or how to build a motorcycle from spare parts or whatever). Some of it may be a little out of date, but a lot of it has been submitted for indexing precisely because of its timelessness or continued usefulness.

Whenever I feel hopeless about the current state of the web, I find this is the perfect antidote!

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by ekez »

The author makes a distinction between the "commercial web" and "small web" but I can't help but wonder if some overlap is possible.

I've recently been tasked with building a website for a small organic food distributor in Oregon. I don't think the traditional image heavy "commercial web" fits well with their company culture and image but am struggling to find examples of "small web" commercial websites to show them as examples of a different way.

It would be nice to see another post discussing how we might bring the small web to the commercial one.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by caribousoup »

ekez wrote: post #83

The author makes a distinction between the "commercial web" and "small web" but I can't help but wonder if some overlap is possible. I've recently been tasked with building a website for a small organic food distributor in Oregon. I don't think the traditional image heavy "commercial web" fits well with their company culture and image but am struggling to find examples of "small web" commercial websites to show them…

https://www.lingscars.com

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by tammer »

kickscondor wrote: post #12

If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before) * Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed52…

  * https://special.fish/ This completely low-tech social network has taken off.
My god i haven’t been so drawn into a website in a long time. I actually forgot what that feeling was like.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by earthboundkid »

chris_f wrote: post #2

When I picture it in my head I think of the early web as more of a library. Over time it has transitioned into a shopping mall. If I continue with this thought exercise, a lot of the big indoor shopping malls around me have been knocked down and replaced with standalone outdoor stores (walled gardens?). I'm not sure where things are going next.

> We thought the Internet was going to be a global library but then it turned out to be a global bookstore instead. Nice coffee tho.

https://twitter.com/earthboundkid/status/1095385048008798208

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by josteink »

pfraze wrote: post #44
gambler wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release I just tried downloading the Windows executable. Initially it said it will take 1.5 hours, but then the download just failed. Tried a few more times with the same result. This is ironic on so many levels.

Yikes. We host our binaries via GitHub so that... sucks

GitHub is often really slow for big binaries, so you may want to consider other options.

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by k00b »

kickscondor wrote: post #12

If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before) * Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed52…

I couldn’t love this more. Thank you for sharing all these!

Re: Rediscovering the Small Web

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Post by bArray »

kickscondor wrote: post #12

If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before) * Beaker ( https://beakerbrowser.com ) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed52…

> As for RSS, well, as HN custom insists, I am also

> commenting to plug my own fraidyc.at. See, you knew it was

> here.

This is quite a nice implementation and the back story is cool.

I have also been thinking about this for some time, but what I want to achieve is decentralized RSS feeds. Servers go down over time, are blocked or suffer some other issue. I want to be able to help keep alive the content I consume, possibly without the need for centralization.

Ideally the aim would be to maintain backwards compatibility and be as decentralized as possible, but I'm still yet to solve this problem without resulting to just using torrents.

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