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I'm not sure about the orange on dark green colour scheme, but I like that the site is responsive and light-weight, and manages to show a bunch of fancy effects in pure CSS. I was surprised that Simon Willison's blog is listed in Python and Web Development categories, but not AI.
That’s one problem with categorising blogs - they often shift focus over time, like Simon’s. I’ve added it to the AI category now - thanks for pointing that out!
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> You either trust it or you don't. don't see why it has to be this way. It doesn't take much to tell us what the review process is like and what gets added and what does not. If I know in advance that the blogs I submit are outside their scope, then I won't waste time submitting them. I also don't see why there can't be an open directory of websites where the community makes decisions about what to add instead of le…
Give it a rest. The scope is in the FAQ. Blogs get added when I have time. As you can tell from the site, there are many, many suggestions and I’m not finding time to add many new blogs https://ooh.directory/about/charts/ There is no guarantee any blog you suggest, even if it’s in “scope”, will get added before either of us die. If that’s a problem save yourself all this angst and don’t suggest anything.
Sorry for being a pain in this thread. Wishing you all the best with the project going forward.
Please considered sorting websites by last updated date by default, instead of alphabetical which is a pretty useless method of presentation. It works better for books and static pages, not dynamic internet content.
It’s not “useless” it just depends on what it is a user is looking for. I decided that alphabetical as default makes most immediate sense to someone arriving at the site. “Last updated” could also look a bit random initially.
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>I was more interested in finding something less personal and more community-ish. where the power to add or reject submissions does not lie with one individual. Wouldn't that be nice? This would be overwhelmed with AI slop within days.
> This would be overwhelmed with AI slop within days. Why so? What's the logic? With ooh.directory, one person is curating it. With a community project, 10 people may curate it. What makes 10 people curating the list more susceptible to slop?
And to prevent commercial and political interests from joining the community, and later overwhelming the original core team.
I think you're asking the author to organize a structure like Wikipedia, with talk pages and topic experts, which would be a significant undertaking.
There are lot of internet article farming, but the real internet is increasingly "small". So I am not surprised we are back to where we started again; Directory.
I am pretty happy with https://marginalia-search.com/ . It's kind of my secondary search engine at this point. I can always search for anything and find indie websites writing about the topic. It also helps with the dread of not having to add my personal site to yet another blog curation site which I don't know will: 1. Be maintained in the longer term. 2. Would be willing to add my site to the curation site.
Just worked on adding categories to Kagi Small Web (inspired in part by OOH) last night. https://kagi.com/smallweb This did give it a new dimension. Each has its own RSS feed too as well.