[HN Gopher] Ooh.directory
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       Ooh.directory
        
       Author : adrianhon
       Score  : 648 points
       Date   : 2022-11-23 15:04 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | boplicity wrote:
       | The combination of good categorization and high-quality curation
       | make this a very interesting project.
       | 
       | Curation, combined with good categorization, is sorely needed in
       | today's internet.
       | 
       | The solution of "search" (aka Google) just doesn't cut it if you
       | want to discover the best publications in a topic area.
       | 
       | I hope this project takes off!
        
         | prox wrote:
         | Yeah me too!
         | 
         | A nice addition would be having account, and being able to like
         | it. Likes are not public, but instead combine to show you
         | things other people liked as well. Since they are not public,
         | hopefully that will discourage gaming it.
        
       | snapcaster wrote:
       | Site is down :(
        
         | philgyford wrote:
         | Looks OK from here. What are you seeing?
         | 
         | (It's my site.)
        
           | ZeroGravitas wrote:
           | Firefox gives me this error:
           | 
           | Secure Connection Failed
           | 
           | An error occurred during a connection to ooh.directory.
           | PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR                   The page you are
           | trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of
           | the received data could not be verified.         Please
           | contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem.
        
             | philgyford wrote:
             | Thanks. Strange, not sure why. Lots of people are managing
             | to see it fine, but there's obviously something not quite
             | right somewhere...
        
               | Farow wrote:
               | Works fine for me on Firefox 107.
        
           | snapcaster wrote:
           | Just checked again, not working for me in chrome getting
           | 
           | This site can't be reached
        
       | n3storm wrote:
       | No linux blogs
        
       | pietroppeter wrote:
       | More of this please!
        
       | andrewstuart wrote:
       | Should be called
       | 
       | oohya.directory
        
       | peter_l_downs wrote:
       | This looks like a really cool project, excited to browse through
       | over the holiday break. Just submitted my art blog
       | (https://freezine.xyz), but realized I don't publish an RSS feed.
       | Will have to address and resubmit.
        
         | pjc50 wrote:
         | .. https://freezine.xyz/1/high-bandwidth/index.html needs a
         | strobe warning.
        
         | InCityDreams wrote:
         | >Best on a desktop browser.
         | 
         | Why, oh why....? Stuck in hospital, so much free time free, so
         | many restrictions, and yet so few - what am i missing, or
         | likely to have missed, being on mobile?
        
           | peter_l_downs wrote:
           | Sorry to hear you're in hospital, I hope you get well soon.
           | The warning is there because I don't design the site for
           | mobile, plus there is content hidden around the site that is
           | easiest to find by viewing source or otherwise exploring in a
           | way that mobile browsers don't make easy.
        
             | insane_dreamer wrote:
             | using on mobile browser (Safari); looking good so far
        
       | cactacea wrote:
       | Did someone just reinvent Yahoo as it existed in 1994?
        
         | saboot wrote:
         | I hope so, it was useful then, useful now!
        
           | monkeynotes wrote:
           | I don't think it's that simple. It was useful then because
           | web discoverability was an unsolved problem, and web content
           | was tiny compared to today. A directory sort of fit the need.
           | As the web grew directories became bloated and hard to
           | navigate, search became more useful.
           | 
           | This is more of a nostalgia or niche link list. It's not the
           | same purpose as yahoo in the 90s.
        
             | blowski wrote:
             | If you don't think it's useful for you, then don't use it.
             | I like it, so I'm going to use it.
        
             | orlp wrote:
             | Web discoverability was solved and then unsolved once again
             | by endless SEO.
        
             | fnfontana wrote:
             | I think that search engines like Google are unbeatable to
             | find content that we already know about. On the other hand,
             | those lists are great to discover what we don't already
             | know about, such as new topics, etc. Just like the awesome
             | lists on GitHub.
        
               | luispauloml wrote:
               | > Just like the awesome lists on GitHub.
               | 
               | What are these lists you're talking about? Could you give
               | an example?
        
               | OctopusLupid wrote:
               | One example: https://github.com/awesome-
               | selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
        
               | ivan_ah wrote:
               | Here is an awesome list of awesome lists on various
               | topics: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome#contents
        
               | mattarm wrote:
               | > Just like the awesome lists on GitHub.
               | 
               | My thought exactly, and also why I don't just search
               | 'latest news' on Google every morning. Human curation is
               | a thing. (not sure how much human curation goes into
               | ooh.directory, but I'm pretty sure they don't use
               | Google's ranking algorithms to surface links)
        
               | philgyford wrote:
               | Hi, it's my site. I find the links by exploring*, and I
               | add and categorise them manually.
               | 
               | * or "surfing the net", if you're old enough.
        
               | rjewell wrote:
               | doing god's work
        
         | pavlov wrote:
         | It's not a coincidence: there's a shadow of an exclamation
         | point in the logo, and the color scheme hints towards Yahoo!'s
         | trademark purple too.
        
           | aendruk wrote:
           | And the name. Yah _ooh_
        
         | ralmeida4381 wrote:
         | LOL, that was my first impression! Obviously the milenials
         | doesn't know about yahoo.
         | 
         | But well... the problem is almost the same: too few info == too
         | much info => No enough info to make decisions.
        
           | Mezzie wrote:
           | Hey now, a couple of us remember! ;)
           | 
           | Yahoo is how baby me learned the word 'hierarchical'.
        
           | cactacea wrote:
           | Sorry to break it to you but I'm a millennial lol
        
           | cercatrova wrote:
           | Millennials? Or Gen Z?
           | 
           | The youngest Millennial is 26, so they probably knew at least
           | a little when they were young about what Yahoo was.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | xtracto wrote:
       | Reminds me of an old site I used to frequent in the late 1990s:
       | 
       | https://web.archive.org/web/19991129033212/http://www.wannal...
       | 
       | Back then, it had a lot of very interesting info to learn about
       | several subjects. I yearn for that internet.
        
         | dutchbrit wrote:
         | Looks like the site currently doesn't know how to serve PHP/you
         | download their source code for the homepage when visiting.
        
       | docmars wrote:
       | "No blogs promoting hate speech, denial of climate change, anti-
       | vax ideas, etc."
       | 
       | Well that's a shame, there's quite a few out there that pose
       | credible and interesting questions and discussions around some of
       | these topics.
       | 
       | Basically this is saying: "No conservative blogs allowed" which
       | erases at least 50% or more of the population's musings.
       | 
       | I'd love to see an aggregator that isn't politically motivated
       | and biased as this one is. The internet would be a better, freer
       | place.
       | 
       | We may even find that these "hateful", "alarming" ideas are in
       | fact mainstream after all and being unfairly suppressed by sites
       | like these as well as legacy media, social media, etc. under the
       | guise of the greater good.
        
         | alimov wrote:
         | > Basically this is saying: "No conservative blogs allowed"
         | which erases at least 50% or more of the population's musings.
         | 
         | Curious which population (country?) you are referring to that's
         | 50% or more conservative
        
           | docmars wrote:
           | The United States, judging by voting numbers in the last 2
           | Presidential elections. 50% is obviously a rough rounding,
           | and serves as a figure of speech.
        
         | ranger47 wrote:
         | Spreading misinformation is a VERY different thing from
         | constructive discussion of different takes on an issue. Anyone
         | taking offense to a request like this can't tell the
         | difference.
        
           | docmars wrote:
           | Valid discussions and critiques on the prescribed narratives
           | are all labeled as "misinformation" conveniently and
           | expressly because the holders of the legacy media narratives
           | are in power and do not wish to be challenged. Common
           | examples are: medical practitioners blowing the whistle on
           | vaccine injuries, or recommending treatments to illnesses
           | that have been demonized by media outlets.
           | 
           | You would be shocked at how many things no longer exist, but
           | previously existed with incredible support and numbers behind
           | them. Everything from Facebook groups, YouTube videos, blog
           | posts, websites, etc. -- too many mediums to list, and yet,
           | unreferenceable here because they've been taken down by the
           | liberal moderation machine who's unwilling to view their
           | opponents as valid participants of grander dialogues, so
           | instead, enact policies of erasure rather than honest debate.
           | 
           | It is not a fair game when those who are in power _are_ the
           | ones deciding what can and cannot exist in the public scene,
           | causing them to remain unchallenged, and prevents their
           | political opponents from obtaining power by suppressing their
           | use of the standard avenues of communication.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | axg11 wrote:
       | I like the aesthetic -- a modern warm Craigslist?
        
         | blowski wrote:
         | How on earth do you use a website without full screen parallax
         | stock photos?
        
       | bradmcgo wrote:
       | Definitely checking this out. I'd love to dive into some new
       | blogs that offer in-depth, rich, original content.
        
       | xeeeeeeeeeeenu wrote:
       | It seems that blogs can only be assigned to a single category.
       | What about sites that are dedicated to more than one topic?
       | 
       | Nonetheless, this is a really cool project!
        
         | philgyford wrote:
         | As it says on the About page (https://ooh.directory/about/):
         | 
         | > Some blogs appear in two or, occasionally, three categories.
         | If it would take more than that, it ends up in the wonderland
         | of Uncategorizable.
        
           | xeeeeeeeeeeenu wrote:
           | Thanks, I somehow missed that.
           | 
           | Since there's no way to select multiple categories in the
           | "suggest" form, I take it you will manually amend the entry.
        
             | philgyford wrote:
             | Definitely - but it's very useful to start off with a
             | suggestion!
        
       | cyrialize wrote:
       | This reminds me of Neocities Districts!
       | https://districts.neocities.org/
        
       | zadler wrote:
       | Love to see this
        
       | sirodoht wrote:
       | That's pretty awesome! I maintain something similar:
       | https://collection.mataroa.blog/
        
         | rambambram wrote:
         | Wow, big list! I bookmarked it.
         | 
         | Ever considered to publish this list as an easily searchable
         | and exportable OPML file?
        
       | rchaud wrote:
       | Time is a flat circle, eh?
       | 
       | But all kidding aside, web directories should be much more
       | powerful now than in the 90s. Websites have RSS, and directory
       | websites should be able to automatically monitor things like
       | uptime, and leverage RSS to preview a site's most recent post.
       | 
       | I've considered maintaining my own directory on my personal
       | website (a one-way webring if you will), but always stopped
       | because the sites I linked to either died, or were acquired and
       | became something very different.
        
         | Minor49er wrote:
         | Regarding the lifetime of a site, it might be possible to
         | submit requests to the Internet Archive or similar service
         | whenever a site is added to a directory or a new post is found
         | on it. That way too, it would be easier to see when a site is
         | no longer active or when it turned into something else. Then,
         | when it's deactivated, the web directory could just point to
         | the archive first
        
         | nijave wrote:
         | Well, we have awesome-* in GitHub now. Unfortunately RSS seems
         | to still be hit-or-miss.
        
           | mypetocean wrote:
           | Do you mind clarifying what you're referring to?
        
             | mitchdoogle wrote:
             | https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
        
         | r0fl wrote:
         | Are there any scripts or wordpress plugins that can build out
         | much better directories like you describe?
        
         | mrtksn wrote:
         | >Time is a flat circle, eh?
         | 
         | I prefer Mark Twain's "History never repeats itself, but it
         | does often rhyme."
         | 
         | It's pretty obvious that we have come to a stagnant period of
         | online content and there's a desire to move past the glamour of
         | the Instagram and political fights on Twitter and optimised for
         | ad revenue videos on Youtube but I don't think that the
         | personal websites are coming back.
         | 
         | Those were cool because only specific type of people were able
         | to build websites, then the code free services for sharing
         | content came along and everybody got online presence but
         | because the medium is the message we are kind of getting tired
         | of the message. There seems to be a search for a new medium.
         | The time for the next verse feels around the corner but I don't
         | think we have found it just yet!
        
           | pvg wrote:
           | _I prefer Mark Twain 's_
           | 
           | That has its own history
           | 
           | https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/
        
           | kachnuv_ocasek wrote:
           | I prefer Slavoj Zizek's "first time as a tragedy, second as a
           | farce".
        
         | mitchdoogle wrote:
         | We have lots of curated lists popping up. Pretty soon someone
         | will make a search engine to search all the lists.
        
       | tiffanyh wrote:
       | DMOZ
       | 
       | Remind me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ
        
       | WallyFunk wrote:
       | Bookmarked. Will revisit.
       | 
       | Anyone else notice everything old is new again? Neocities[0],
       | Marginalia Search[1], Project Gemini[2], etc
       | 
       | There's many others I'm forgetting, and new ones popup on
       | Hackernews each week.
       | 
       | Is this just basic nostalgia, people wanting to recreate the
       | dial-up days or even BBS days?
       | 
       | [0] https://neocities.org/
       | 
       | [1] https://www.marginalia.nu/
       | 
       | [2] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
        
         | partyguy wrote:
         | You're right! Even MySpace is back [0]
         | 
         | [0] https://spacehey.com/
        
         | webscout wrote:
        
         | marginalia_nu wrote:
         | > Is this just basic nostalgia, people wanting to recreate the
         | dial-up days or even BBS days?
         | 
         | That's certainly not why I created my search engine. Old isn't
         | an end, its a means to cut the bullshit.
         | 
         | Like I read a lot of old books, not because I'm nostalgic for
         | yellowed paper, but because they consistently have much better
         | signal to noise ratio than most of what you'll find on a screen
         | or printed past 1990 or so. (When people bought books in
         | physical book stores and weren't primarily ordering books
         | online, books weren't judged by their page count as a proxy for
         | how much content they contained, and thus had a lot less filler
         | and anecdotes.)
         | 
         | If you gave me a method of selection that was as reliable for
         | identifying good books among contemporary books, I'd probably
         | read more contemporary books as a result.
        
         | BirAdam wrote:
         | I believe that much of it is, indeed, basic nostalgia. Some of
         | this, however, is also the recognition that not all of the
         | early web was bad. Much of the early internet is viewed through
         | rose-tinted glasses, but some of it was really good. For
         | example, the ability to use a directory to find _exactly_ what
         | you're looking for while search just feeds you two pages of
         | paid result listings. Likewise, gopher made information
         | available on even the most modest of machines (gemini trying to
         | recreate something somewhat better) while modern web can spin
         | up cooling fans on high-end laptop from 2019.
        
           | nibbleshifter wrote:
           | I recently procured the highest specced out XPS 15 Dell
           | offers, and some modern websites manage to spin the fans to
           | an insane degree.
        
       | laputan_machine wrote:
       | Very cool
        
       | robga wrote:
       | It reminds me of DMOZ ODP days.
       | 
       | Ohh.nostalgia
       | 
       | http://www.odp.org/homepage.php (archive)
        
         | zozbot234 wrote:
         | DMOZ was and is freely licensed though. This one makes for a
         | nice proof of concept, but there's no mention of availability
         | or reusability for any of this data.
        
           | robga wrote:
           | DMOZ had an interesting license, as I recall
           | 
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Directory_License
           | 
           | https://web.archive.org/web/20070813215202/http://www.dmoz.o.
           | ..
           | 
           | "The Free Software Foundation describes the ODL as a non-free
           | license"
           | 
           | But your point is a good one and well taken.
        
             | zozbot234 wrote:
             | It was relicensed as CC-BY in 2011, however. AIUI, the ODL
             | even predates CC.
        
         | Minor49er wrote:
         | You'll love Curlie which was created by a number of DMOZ alumni
         | 
         | https://curlie.org/
        
       | jordanmorgan10 wrote:
       | Funny enough, I searched for "iOS" and my blog was the only
       | result haha. Not sure how, or if someone else submitted it.
       | 
       | As an aside, I wish JSON feed would've taken off :-/ I know, I
       | know, another standard - but it _was_ a better one I think.
        
       | aliqot wrote:
       | nice :) Now make it a webring with a snippet
        
       | AndrewStephens wrote:
       | More of this kind of thing, please. Any boost privately run blogs
       | get is a welcome respite from the walled gardens of most social
       | media.
       | 
       | I am just sad that my very unfocused blog doesn't really fit into
       | any of their categories.
        
         | philgyford wrote:
         | There's always "Personal blogs", which is a large number of
         | them.
        
           | AndrewStephens wrote:
           | I guess I do fit in somewhere, thanks.
        
         | rambambram wrote:
         | I like how you say on your site that you recently joined
         | Mastodon, while your RSS feed works just fine and I see posts
         | from 2006. ;)
        
       | bsnnkv wrote:
       | This gave me a flashback to the final season of "Halt and Catch
       | Fire", which I enjoyed a lot and recommend to anyone who has
       | nostalgic feelings about computing and the internet in the 90s.
        
       | tracker1 wrote:
       | Looks like an early version of Yahoo!
        
       | perlpimp wrote:
       | it would be helpful if there was some sort of rss aggregator
       | functionality. Ie google reader that used to be.
        
       | piperswe wrote:
       | I've been working on something sorta similar, just focused on
       | general websites rather than just blogs: https://webjamboree.net/
        
         | rambambram wrote:
         | Nice! Bookmarked it.
         | 
         | I also recently started making some portal with curated links
         | and feeds. I call it Discovery Portals. The very small
         | beginning can be found at https://www.heyhomepage.com/discover/
        
       | LoganDark wrote:
       | Instinctively typed "furry" into the search bar and got no
       | results. High quality!
        
       | mellosouls wrote:
       | Current curation rules:
       | 
       | https://ooh.directory/about/
       | 
       | - Every blog must have an RSS or Atom feed.
       | 
       | - Newsletters aren't included. Some sites are a blog and a
       | newsletter, with identical content, but only those which mainly
       | seem like a blog are included.
       | 
       | - Only blogs updated within the past year or so are added.
       | 
       | - Tumblrs are only included if they're either focused on a
       | specific topic or feature original content.
       | 
       | - Link blogs are only included if they include original
       | commentary about each link.
       | 
       | - No blogs promoting hate speech, denial of climate change, anti-
       | vax ideas, etc.
        
         | RobertRoberts wrote:
         | > - No blogs promoting hate speech, denial of climate change,
         | anti-vax ideas, etc.
         | 
         | I've heard of Twitter accounts getting banned because they
         | mentioned some of these subjects in context of criticizing
         | them. (which is the opposite result that would be expected)
         | 
         | How their curation process work is just as important as the
         | rules themselves. If it's transparent and there's a person (not
         | just an automated algorithm), is there also a recourse process
         | for false positives or bad decision making?
        
           | rideontime wrote:
           | I'm pretty sure Phil is the curator.
        
             | RobertRoberts wrote:
             | What is the "process" for resolving conflicts with Phil?
             | 
             | (the key part of my concern)
        
               | manicennui wrote:
               | Don't use the site?
        
               | alexchamberlain wrote:
               | Email him and say "Hi Phil"?
        
               | RobertRoberts wrote:
               | My personal opinion is that Phil is a busy guy and
               | doesn't have time to carefully analyze your request with
               | any nuance.
               | 
               | Here's an example of the difficulty.
               | 
               | "Phil, can you review the article [link to blog] where
               | you banned us from? We are critically analyzing a very
               | socially sensitive topic and while we are disagreeing
               | with the majority of people, we actually encouraging
               | unity and are not encouraging any hate. You can clearly
               | see if you read our entire article."
               | 
               | Or, "I only linked to Trump's tirade to point out how
               | insane it is. Can you re-read my article....?"
        
               | rchaud wrote:
               | Sounds like you might be better off acquiring an audience
               | via newsletter.
        
               | RobertRoberts wrote:
               | > I've heard of Twitter accounts getting banned because
               | they mentioned some of these subjects in context of
               | criticizing them. (which is the opposite result that
               | would be expected)
               | 
               | My comment above is the very reason for this discussion.
               | Not using the site is the same as suggesting not
               | commenting here, which is nearly nonsensical.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | quriosity wrote:
        
       | Tade0 wrote:
       | I have to say I enjoy the consistent sub 800ms load times.
        
       | felipelalli wrote:
       | I miss directories. The hard part is to keep it up to date and
       | delete unreachable sites. Also flag the inactive ones. I don't
       | know if this site does this.
        
       | davedx wrote:
       | Not OP's first rodeo. I was exploring his website and found on
       | archive.org his first web directory, from 1998!
       | https://web.archive.org/web/19980628182433/http://www.gyford...
        
         | colinprince wrote:
         | see also Today's Guardian:
         | 
         | https://guardian.gyford.com/
        
       | adrianhon wrote:
       | More context in this announcement post!
       | 
       | https://mastodon.social/@philgyford/109393682988861819
        
       | s3000 wrote:
       | This is the best thing for RSS in a long time. What I miss though
       | for RSS streams is commenting. 'Nobody' reads the articles on
       | link aggregators, (*e: just the comments). In a way, RSS is a
       | link aggregator that limits its user base to the ones who read
       | and don't comment.
       | 
       | I am wondering what will happen if RSS readers find a way to
       | share comments on posts. Maybe ActivityPub makes that possible.
       | 
       | The only service of which I am aware that allows for comments on
       | RSS is https://linklonk.com/ . Are there other approaches to
       | bring comments to RSS streams?
       | 
       | Maybe ooh.directory can use ActivityPub to allow commenting and
       | voting on the entries. Comments on HN are great to check for
       | problems with an article. That should also be true for comments
       | about entire blogs.
        
         | rambambram wrote:
         | > What I miss though for RSS streams is commenting.
         | 
         | >In a way, RSS is a link aggregator that limits its user base
         | to the ones who read and don't comment.
         | 
         | I share this view. What do you think about a concept wherein a
         | collection of followed feeds is presented in a timeline with
         | the possibility to 'comment' with an email form? It will look
         | like a regular comment textarea under some blogpost, but the
         | commenting is done by email. The reaction isn't immediately
         | visible under the blogpost (if at all) and therefor everything
         | works humanly slow. But there's also no signup required, so
         | it's more anonymous and openly accessible.
        
       | kepano wrote:
       | I love to see this. The death of blogs and RSS is highly
       | exaggerated. The idea that Google "killed" blogs by killing
       | Google Reader is a meme that is more destructive than Google's
       | act in itself.
       | 
       | There are countless healthy and active blogs that you can read
       | via RSS. There are great RSS reader apps.
       | 
       | For us technically-minded folks we need to keep being proactive
       | about helping people read the web via RSS, improving discovery,
       | and continually making RSS a first-class option on sites we
       | build.
        
         | moffkalast wrote:
         | Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like RSS goes against
         | the core interest of every website to actually get traffic for
         | ads, google rankings, et cetera. Why would anyone implement it?
        
           | rchaud wrote:
           | Why did people create podcasts for free and distribute them
           | via RSS? Because there once was a time when advances in
           | computing had use cases that weren't driven entirely by
           | commercial interests.
        
           | janalsncm wrote:
           | On my blog I get about 800 hits per month. It's not enough to
           | generate meaningful revenue with ads. So my blog is more
           | about branding and SEO for my name, and slapping an ad or
           | even a donate button feels cheap to me.
           | 
           | If I had 10x the visitors I might see things differently but
           | I think a lot of small blogs are in my boat.
        
           | Kye wrote:
           | The troubling assumption here is that every site has or
           | depends on ads and cares about rankings.
           | 
           | >> _" Why would anyone implement it?"_
           | 
           | Because your assumption is wrong.
        
           | executesorder66 wrote:
           | They wouldn't, but who cares about them? RSS is for people
           | who blog to share their interests freely, and to help their
           | readers get the content more easily.
        
           | manicennui wrote:
           | Not everyone is trying to monetize everything.
        
             | nibbleshifter wrote:
             | Absolute heresy to say that on here lol.
        
           | rambambram wrote:
           | I would say that providing a first paragraph of text by RSS
           | feed might actually attract more users/readers to a site to
           | read the full article (paid or not).
           | 
           | Wasn't it Basecamp/37Signals who said to emulate drugs
           | dealers and give the first try away for free? ;)
        
             | nibbleshifter wrote:
             | I've never met a single drug dealer who actually gave any
             | drugs away for free.
        
           | susam wrote:
           | I have been maintaining a personal website since 2001 and the
           | core interest of my website is to share things I find
           | interesting. RSS does not go against that. On the other hand,
           | RSS makes it easy for subscribers to find out when I have
           | shared something new.
        
           | lgas wrote:
           | Different people have different goals.
        
         | onetrickwolf wrote:
         | I think people seem them as dead because a small percentage of
         | internet users engage with them, but people forget that
         | billions more people have access to the internet now. Even
         | though it's a smaller percentage, the actual number of users
         | has still gone up generally in my experience.
        
         | wpietri wrote:
         | It sure didn't help, but I agree that Google Reader's death
         | didn't kill blogs themselves; the decline has been pretty
         | steady (Reader was killed in 2013):
         | https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...
         | 
         | I also agree that RSS is still worth it. I am a happy
         | subscriber to Newsblur: https://newsblur.com/
         | 
         | Indeed, the mess that is Twitter is giving me hope that we'll
         | see a comeback of people self-hosting their content.
        
         | marban wrote:
         | https://biztoc.com for instance.
        
       | asicsp wrote:
       | Reminds me of https://blogsurf.io/ which used to have a way to
       | list recent blog posts (but couldn't find a way to do so now).
       | 
       | This one has categories and filtering options, nice! Random is
       | good to have (see also
       | https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random)
        
       | the-printer wrote:
       | This is cool, shout out to all the directories and lists and
       | aggregators.
        
       | yrds96 wrote:
       | This is the idea that I always had but never implemented. I'm
       | glad my dream came true.
        
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       | afarrell wrote:
       | This design is really pleasing to my eye.
        
       | unglaublich wrote:
       | Humans aggregating what they think is useful for other humans.
       | That is the internet of the past, and hopefully of the future.
        
         | rambambram wrote:
         | I can't agree more. It's the only way to stand up to the fakery
         | and artificiality of algorithms. I try to make my software
         | 'internet friendly'.
        
       | insane_dreamer wrote:
       | Looks very nice. Unfortunately a lot of good bloggers now use
       | paywalled substack (I don't blame them, I don't have time to
       | write for free either), but this is a good resource for the few
       | that are still gratis.
        
       | sneak wrote:
       | I was thinking of starting a web directory similar to this! I'm
       | glad to see it.
       | 
       | Is there an OPML file that lists all of the blogs it knows about?
        
         | philgyford wrote:
         | I will be adding various OPML files at some point.
        
         | rambambram wrote:
         | Smart request! I recently started collecting blogs on
         | https://www.heyhomepage.com/discover/ (almost nothing to see
         | there right now) and I planned to publish the lists of links
         | also as easily searchable and sharable OPML files.
        
       | komali2 wrote:
       | Fun and utterly off topic: I'm on a boat for my partner's
       | birthday, and this "FortiGuard" web security thing they use on
       | their satellite internet that yesterday temporarily prevented us
       | from watching porn together is today preventing me from viewing
       | this cool site, on the grounds: "Newly Observed Domain."
       | 
       | Wondering who thought new domains should be blocked "just in
       | case" and how they determine that. What percentage of requests
       | the service receives are domains its never seen before? Assuming
       | 90% or so are like, google, facebook, etc, but what if someone
       | has a phone app that calls weird api domains? Actually that might
       | explain some of the random weird failures I've been seeing on
       | this trip...
        
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