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Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

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Post by PaulRobinson »

A good idea, and one I had myself recently.

Some suggestions: I know none of us like "the algorithms choosing", but I think we can do better than alphabetical order. Number of clicks you see (popularity), or number of inbound links google tells you about would be good.

I also think you've gone to great effort, but it's still very light in some categories. I hope you keep going - what's your data source? Are you tracking outbound links from the ones you have indexed to find new blogs?

Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

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Post by myth_drannon »

simonw wrote: post #3

Given how worried everyone is about the AI slopocalypse where the internet is drowned in LLM-generated junk content maybe it's time for a resurgence of human curated directories like this one.

It was tried before (e.g. Dmoz) and it does not work after it becomes popular.

I'm thinking more like just taking all the text files from 80-90s and making a separate static, frozen in time internet.

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Post by 8organicbits »

gesis wrote: post #5
simonw wrote: post #3

Given how worried everyone is about the AI slopocalypse where the internet is drowned in LLM-generated junk content maybe it's time for a resurgence of human curated directories like this one.

Let's bring back the webring.

I joined a web ring last year, but I'm uncertain about it. Modern web rings tend to automate updates to the next/prev buttons, so I'm never sure what I'm linking to. The web ring owner acts as curator, but I don't know how much effort they put in to keep slop or other undesirable content out.
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