Thank you. I approved your blog. Quick note: It looks like your feed items don't have published date which makes it hard to store and sort recent posts.
the_axiom
What if I have a personal handwritten blog but it has nazist content?
notachatbot123
I would recommend deleting it, reading up on fascism and psychology and trying to fix whatever makes you prone to extremism in a different way that radicalism and hate.
nextaccountic
The OP doesn't need to approve every blog that is submitted
obsidianbases1
Something like this is very much needed.
I hope to see more things like this.
What would be really cool is if there was a personalized algorithm (for you page) that stored data and processed locally.
ramkarthikk
Thank you. I wanted to mostly stay away from algorithmic feed to stay true to RSS. On the non-minimal version of the site, you can sign up and follow blogs to have a "For You" tab, but it's still recent posts from blogs you follow.
ramraj07
give people the ability to curate their own collections and publish them
ramkarthikk
On the non-minimal version, you can signup for an account and follow blogs (curate your fav blogs). I will add an option to making your list public.
Hard_Space
Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this, both of which I remember well. That's not a criticism! I guess that the quality-drop in search wasn't quite enough to make it happen, but the advent of AI content predomination will be.
nate
Similarly, I feel like book publishers are about to become a thriving business soon again. With any book being most likely just a bot creation, trusting "Random House" sounds like a thing more of us will start paying attention to to make sure we're buying a human made thing.
avanwyk
I wouldn't even call this a regression. Hand curated and edited feels like the future I want right now.
coldpie
> Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this
One of these hand-curated blog aggregator websites pops up on HN about every month. They're cool and good on the author for trying to solve the problem, but it seems like the wrong approach to me. They're too disorganized, a random collection of mostly tech- and politics-related writing from random people with zero way to vet the quality of the writing. They also require the creator/owner to care about the project for the long-term, which is unlikely. I never revisit the aggregators.
I wonder if webrings are a better fix here. The low-tech version could be to put a static-URL page on my blog that links to other blogs I like, with a short description. Then people who find my blog interesting might also enjoy the blogs that I enjoy. That could be powerful if it caught on widely.
Maybe a clever person could come up with some kind of higher-tech version that could present a more interesting & consistent interface to users, encourage blogs to link back to each other, and also solve the dead-link problem.
renegat0x0
I follow awesome lists. These are curated lists of software. It reverts google indexing, because search is awful.
About personal blogs... I have many many personal blogs in my repository. Around 4k. Respository below. The real problem is to find quality stuff.
You can have millions of them, but if they are not worth my time, then what is the point?
I cannot verify and decide what is good manually.
Obviously.
I think we cannot also rely on Google to provide rating, nor any corporation.
So I have my own ratings, because at least I will be able to find what I found worth before.
It seems to be simply a great idea...like...should we bring it back? Could we?
voxleone
We're heading to a future where (when) friction is a luxury. Anyways, I thank the organizers for the rare opportunity. Long live Blogosphere.app, long live blogs.
sailfast
[delayed]
sehgalmayank001
Webrings didn't fail because the idea was bad. They got buried under SEO and social feeds. Now that both of those are broken, hand curation starts to look less like a step backward and more like the only thing that was ever actually working.
ml-
Nice job. A small suggestion, unless I completely missed it, an option to filter by post / blog language.
ramkarthikk
Great feedback. I will add search to this minimal version. The non-minimal version comes with search. Filter by language is something neither has and will be a great addition.
setnone
This is great.
I'm curious what's your vision on adding comments?
ramkarthikk
If you're referring to comments on the website, I plan to keep it minimal (the text version is a static site).
If you're referring to comments on blogs in general, I have many thoughts. Back in the day, comments used to be how you connected with people and let other people find you. It also came with spam (spam plugins could only do so much).
With the rise of static site generators, most people don't have comments on their blogs now. It is something I miss though.
AndrewStephens
I love this (and submitted my blog) - people bemoan the death of the Old Web™ but in reality there is still heaps of great content being created.
SirFatty
Did you use Frontpage to create your frontpage?
reconnecting
<meta name="generator" content="FrontPage 4.0">
postalcoder
If anyone looking for something even more minimalist, give the HN x Small Web RSS feed a try
Great work, I haven't updated my public site in years while I waited for the LLM stuff to play out, but you've inspired me to put it back out there and submit.
mmargenot
Very cool! This was a good impetus to actually add RSS to my blog.
kangraemin
[flagged]
ramkarthikk
Its chronological - most recently published first (no algorithm or voting).
efilife
Don't engage. This is a bot.
sebastianconcpt
Yeah we need to make curated human signals stronger.
Biologist123
Nice. I can see a version of this working for ever more niche areas. Curated reading lists for areas of interest. At which point a curated list of curated lists becomes viable!
jasoneckert
This is great, thanks! It sort of feels like browsing for gems in a used bookstore and stumbling onto authentic, personal writing. I'm always up for that, and plan on spending plenty of time exploring the list.
I’ve submitted mine as well - cheers!
glenstein
>It sort of feels like browsing for gems in a used bookstore and stumbling onto authentic, personal writing
I don't know that I've heard a better description of the thing the so-called small web is about than that. It's the clearest answer to the "why" of having a small web of discoverable personal blogs and sites.
ramkarthikk
That is such a lovely way to put it. Do you mind if I add it to the about page and link to this comment?
nextaccountic
Question, is this strictly chronological, or is there anything at all to make this an "algorithmic feed" like HN, reddit, twitter, or facebook? (list is roughly in the order of less shitty to more shitty, but note that none of them are chronological, unlike, say, a RSS reader aggregating some set of blogs)
ramkarthikk
This is strictly chronological. No voting, no algorithm.
dchuk
Very clean site, well done. I’ve built something similar, but it also has an algorithmic front page option as well based on the “standard” algorithm from Reddit/HN: https://engineered.at
I also have it wired up to gpt nano for topic extraction and summary creation per post, if you register for an account (free) you can also follow sources and topics to fine tune things.
I have a big list of features to continue adding to it, like an ability to “claim” your site so you can get some analytics from the site, and potentially to boost your site in the algorithm. Might also add a jobs board.
Not sure if you want feedback on this, but mine is free.
The lists are impenetrable for my eye, I think an key mistake is that you don't use an accent color for titles in lists (i.e. look at a google serp).
That you don't directly link the content, felt like an offense, followed by a slap in the face looking at an AI generated summary.
The layout feels too reddit and too industrialized and the way you plan to progress the project, rings my "pet project to slam ad's on" bells.
I think the pure intent of OPs site naturally makes it more approachable and likeable.
lemiffe
Great idea! Could you add a "music" category please for blogs?
danielszlaski
Nice and clean.
LostMyLogin
Love this! New homepage for me. Do you have a buy me coffee button to help keep it live?
glenstein
Right! My concern with these tools is sometimes they are too good for this world and likely to live a few months.
ramkarthikk
Appreciate it :) I don't have one. This is hosted on Cloudflare as a static site and a cron that runs on a $5 VM (that also hosts other things). So it doesn't cost me much to keep it alive other than the domain cost. I built it this way intentionally so that I can keep this running forever.
glenstein
Love this! I very much appreciate the inclusion of a lightweight version, as I think lightweight discovery for blogs and the small web is where good tools and apps are needed.
Also, given that the lightweight version is very hn styled format it naturally leads my brain to imagining a version with upvotes and commenters (which may be a good or a bad thing) but with the link submission part automated. Not necessarily the intent here but it was the first time that particular combination of possibilities occurred to me as a way to do things.
Also curious about how these blogs are indexed/reviewed. Is the list ever pruned over time due to inactivity?
ramkarthikk
Thank you. The initial list was from blogroll.org (mentioned in the about page, and I emailed the person who built that). From then on, I review every submission that happens via the form.
The scheduler flags blogs that fail and doesn't try to fetch after a few tries. I'm still working on an effective way to re-review and prune. Open to any feedback.
However, I think (text.)Blogosphere has a nicer interface, personally. Maybe I'm just used to HN.
Imustaskforhelp
Yes!! I found a new website to use :-)
I just hope if you can add dark-mode, I use hackernews essential which adds dark mode and more features which I really like in hackernews, Perhaps something like this can be added but overall I really like it!
You have (essentially) just made something which I imagined 2 years ago:
My point, which has only grown to an even larger degree is that Hackernews has too many AI discussions, which both feels a bit fomo to me and also I am seeing AI generated blog posts and comments now on Hackernews as well.
At some point, I want a website where I can talk about the more human aspects, some occasional AI mention is fine but not if a quarter or half of front page is hackernews and some genuinely nice projects don't get the attention :(
I had joined hackernews to read those content pieces and fell in love with the human discussion aspect but now there are definitely moments of browsing hackernews which makes me feel as to what I had written in the ask HN
my last line within the ask HN was: I just want people who don't want the latest ai hype to gather around and discuss some other cool things which are "not" AI. This kind of fits into that
Adding my submissions of blog-posts into it in sometime :) See you there!
rednafi
This is great. But I’ve bookmarked at least 10 of these aggregators over the years, and I never revisit any of them. Partly because I don’t have the time to browse and discover new content.
I also don’t read the blog spam from prolific writers who pop up here every two days, especially the low-quality ones constantly yapping about AI. So the number of blogs I revisit is a handful, and I have a page on my site listing them [1]. Some of the blogs I’ve listed also have backlinks to my site. It’s super simple and works fairly well for me. Plus there’s rss.
Any plans on adding a way to filter out "lower quality" posts which usually dominate chronologically sorted post lists?
And, possibly a way to filter type of content more in-depth than just one category?
ramkarthikk
No plans to add a filter for "lower quality" since that takes away from the ethos of RSS. Certainly looking to add more ways to filter. Open to ideas.
alc010
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_HMCB_
Superb! Thank you. Psychologically, the minimal version feels perfect; as if it were more connected with the spirit of blogging.
sodapopcan
Very nice, this is great! Love that you give the two UX options.
FYI (bug report): In the non-minimal version, navigating by category is janky in FireFox. The logo briefly disappears with the nav jumping up in its place every time you click a category.
But kudos for different people working on similar good ideas
napolux
scoring will bring spam and voting brigades if not managed properly
AnonyMD
It's a very modern and clean design.
highspeedbus
That's great. I wish we could convince more people to use similar tools regularly, myself included.
It may not 'scale' as well as algorithmic feeds, but maybe that's what will save the Web. We need more sweat and passion, both in curation of content and in the effort to find it.
robertheadley
Great concept, I miss the ability to like things though.
robertheadley
ah, looks like the .app version covers that. I will have to check it out outside of work.
siva7
This feels so Yahoo-1994. Love that we are getting back to our origins thanks to AI.
bookofjoe
That's so funny: I just reactivated my Yahoo email address.
reedlaw
I've come to the conclusion that Hacker News is the best aggregator out there. Substack knows my interests yet gives terrible recommendations. Youtube constantly recommends the same videos or exaggerates my interest in a topic based on a few views, spamming me with related content until I watch something unrelated. The only downside of Hacker News is that its focus is narrower than other sites. But perhaps because the focus is "Anything that good hackers would find interesting" there is a bias towards things I find interesting with less noise than more commercial offerings.
l72
I always thought the "planets"[1][2][3] were a neat idea. I wish there were more of them for dedicated topics. Then I can just subscribe to specific planets which pulls curated feeds from various blogs on that topic.
Hahahahha... I was trying to build something like this for a while. Seems like I wasn't the only one with this idea. So happy someone finally did it!
tombert
Interesting. I submitted mine.
gorbiesRedScar
perfect.
riceballs_tlp
How do you curate the blogs that are being added to this? I see that there's a way to submit your own blog, but was there a list you started with initially? Thanks for making this!
gosingk
Nice project
akshitgaur2005
Hey, I am just getting started with blogging, could/should I submit my website too?
tpemist
Thanks for sharing, it's a great idea! but the site is not reachable now, it stuck.
trvz
This is silly.
RSS readers exist. Feed a Fever was even better.
ronb1964
Funny timing — I tried to submit my own Show HN today for a small Linux app I've been building and got blocked because my account is too new. Spent the afternoon reading through HN threads to build up some karma instead. Feels like the indie software equivalent of the same problem this project is trying to solve — it's getting harder for small, genuine projects to find an audience without gaming some system first. Appreciate what you've built here!
susam
This is a very nice project! Thank you for creating it and sharing it here on HN. I like the minimal version more but the modern version is quite nice too. I would probably stick to the minimal version but since it seems to lack the search feature I end up using the modern version for that.
By the way, some minor issues I found:
1. In the minimal version, when browsing the list of blogs I cannot get past page 12. The last page the UI lets me navigate to is https://text.blogosphere.app/blogs-12 which shows blogs up to names starting with 'M'. I can reach page 13 by manually editing the URL to https://text.blogosphere.app/blogs-13 which shows two blogs starting with 'N'. However, pages 14 and beyond just load the home page. Surely there are more blogs with names starting with 'O', 'P', etc.?
2. The modern version at https://blogosphere.app/ uses infinite scroll, which makes it impossible to reach the footer. Each time I scroll down, more content loads and pushes the footer further away. I was only able to view the footer by modifying the DOM in the browser's developer tools. It would be nice if there were a straightforward way to access the footer.
ramkarthikk
Thank you for the detailed feedback. I'm glad you like this project.
1. Yeah, there are definitely more blogs. Seems like an issue paginating and fetching it at build time. I will check this.
2. I generally don't prefer infinite scroll but since people are used to it on social media, I kept it on the modern version. It does make it impossible to see the footer. I will figure out a way around this. In the meantime, the "Submit" page should display the footer.
I'm also going to add search to the minimal version since I also prefer it over the modern version and search is useful.
dalmo3
TBH I'd love to see that idea as a /blogs list here at HN.
freetonik
Very cool! Love the minimal design a lot, unsurprisingly.
My Minifeed [1] started with a similar goal of having a "HN for blogs", but then it grew to include search, related recommendations, custom feeds, lists, etc. I don't have categories though.
Could you add a form submission button next to the filter, so that it doesn't require JavaScript? (Or actually that can probably be done easily enough with some kind of CSS variable-setting trick...?)
sourcegrift
"A woman had sex with identical twins and now it's impossible to tell who is the father", is this a blog post or news or sarcastic news or what the hell
Bubbles is different, because the front page is created by real people voting. It also supports comments, blogs in EN and DE, as well as following blogs.
Johnny_Bonk
One recommendation is to keep header fixed on scroll so you can always nav away. most sites fail to do this it seems
mm263
Fixed header isn't always a good thing, it can also be a mistake. Since content is the product, let the content take up all available space and use your browser navigation capabilities to navigate if necessary
givemeethekeys
This is a great idea. I think you should ask people to pay a subscription for commenting. Turn it into a community supported site from the get go!
skeptrune
This is awesome! I'm happy someone made this exist.
ashwinne
I would love a old-school search engine that pulls results purely from a well curated list of websites and blogs.
i can't describe how happy this project makes me feel. Honestly, i don't even know why. I mean, the idea is great but it's nothing "extra", still it just feels right. Like breath of fresh air.
rodarima
Amazing that the minimal version works in Dillo, except for the categories menu which uses JS (using a form and submit button inside a noscript tag would work as a fallback).
It aggregates the top articles on STEAMD topics (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math, and Design) from various forums and displays them in chronological order.
This includes forums like Hacker News, Tildes, Lobsters, Slashdot, Bear, and some science, tech & programming related subreddits.
This is awesome. I find myself seeking out blogs nowadays as many of the best forums have died out and reddit has dropped in quality significantly.
I typically use marginalia and wiby to make finding posts from blogs easier, but I like the idea of providing hn style mechanics to blog posts, so many of which lack the ability to comment/discuss the material. At the same time, while I think this is a useful tool, I am a little weary of the aggregation and consolidation of the web.
KronisLV
Vaguely related, I did an extremely basic RSS feed combiner ages ago: https://hn-blogs.kronis.dev/ when there was that one post where people could share their blogs and many of those had RSS feeds.
That said, it got its list of feeds from the repo that someone made which hasn't been updated in a few years, so even if new blog content gets pulled, the list of blogs doesn't change. Oh well, wasn't a super serious project.
glerk
Sweet! Glad to see so many active personal blogs. We should push to bring back RSS feeds somehow. I really miss that era.
rpgbr
Very cool!
We have something similar — asort of “planet” — for personal blogs in Brazil. It's open source, maybe it can be useful for someone: https://github.com/manualdousuario/lerama
Very cool!! It's actually full of blogs! I've seen lots of claims for this kind of thing, glad to see you followed through!
millionclicks
Awesome idea. You should launch this on Buildfeed.co.
quanwinn
Love this! Was the UI done with Claude or some LLM? Not a critique, just curious because the designs give off that vibe to me.
matheusmoreira
> If you don't find your blog, please add them.
> RSS / Atom Feed URL *
I really need to implement an RSS/Atom feed in my static site generator, the lack of this feature is really starting to hurt. I can probably get Claude to help me with this.
and was pleasantly surprised to see my blog was already on this website!
stevenicr
I see the footer, then it disappears - (next scroll kicks in) - see foot, disappears, repeat.. (desktop, firefox)
It's time we bring back webrings and optional auto-check for recip links - with options to check for nofollow and do a thing or not.
Webring code anyone can self host - have notification and approval and accept nofollow links as okay by default should work fine.
Thinking of them getting bigger, might need to give surfers and option to sort by tags / categories / newest / oldest.
have option for website owner to prioritize or highlight a few as first seen each month..
OpFour
I made something similar, but for Linux news and information! thelinuxreport.com :D
jadbox
No voting? How is it curated?
paulpauper
"All submissions are manually reviewed before appearing in the directory."
it's like the late 90s early 2000s again
rav3ndust
cool stuff. have already found and bookmarked a few interesting sites just going through the list.
submitted my own blog there as well. it is cool seeing human-curated directories coming back (not that they truly left, but i've been seeing more and more over the last few years around the 'indie web')
i do a little something like this on my own site, but it is just a simple directory of sites that i like listed by category on a single page.
ddingus
I love this. THANK YOU.
aavci
I love the idea of such frontpages. There should be one for small scale b2c apps as well to help discovery
chistev
Great job.
Submitted my blog.
ramkarthikk
Thank you. I approved your blog. Quick note: It looks like your feed items don't have published date which makes it hard to store and sort recent posts.
the_axiom
What if I have a personal handwritten blog but it has nazist content?
notachatbot123
I would recommend deleting it, reading up on fascism and psychology and trying to fix whatever makes you prone to extremism in a different way that radicalism and hate.
nextaccountic
The OP doesn't need to approve every blog that is submitted
obsidianbases1
Something like this is very much needed.
I hope to see more things like this.
What would be really cool is if there was a personalized algorithm (for you page) that stored data and processed locally.
ramkarthikk
Thank you. I wanted to mostly stay away from algorithmic feed to stay true to RSS. On the non-minimal version of the site, you can sign up and follow blogs to have a "For You" tab, but it's still recent posts from blogs you follow.
ramraj07
give people the ability to curate their own collections and publish them
ramkarthikk
On the non-minimal version, you can signup for an account and follow blogs (curate your fav blogs). I will add an option to making your list public.
Hard_Space
Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this, both of which I remember well. That's not a criticism! I guess that the quality-drop in search wasn't quite enough to make it happen, but the advent of AI content predomination will be.
nate
Similarly, I feel like book publishers are about to become a thriving business soon again. With any book being most likely just a bot creation, trusting "Random House" sounds like a thing more of us will start paying attention to to make sure we're buying a human made thing.
avanwyk
I wouldn't even call this a regression. Hand curated and edited feels like the future I want right now.
coldpie
> Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this
One of these hand-curated blog aggregator websites pops up on HN about every month. They're cool and good on the author for trying to solve the problem, but it seems like the wrong approach to me. They're too disorganized, a random collection of mostly tech- and politics-related writing from random people with zero way to vet the quality of the writing. They also require the creator/owner to care about the project for the long-term, which is unlikely. I never revisit the aggregators.
I wonder if webrings are a better fix here. The low-tech version could be to put a static-URL page on my blog that links to other blogs I like, with a short description. Then people who find my blog interesting might also enjoy the blogs that I enjoy. That could be powerful if it caught on widely.
Maybe a clever person could come up with some kind of higher-tech version that could present a more interesting & consistent interface to users, encourage blogs to link back to each other, and also solve the dead-link problem.
renegat0x0
I follow awesome lists. These are curated lists of software. It reverts google indexing, because search is awful.
About personal blogs... I have many many personal blogs in my repository. Around 4k. Respository below. The real problem is to find quality stuff.
You can have millions of them, but if they are not worth my time, then what is the point?
I cannot verify and decide what is good manually.
Obviously.
I think we cannot also rely on Google to provide rating, nor any corporation.
So I have my own ratings, because at least I will be able to find what I found worth before.
It seems to be simply a great idea...like...should we bring it back? Could we?
voxleone
We're heading to a future where (when) friction is a luxury. Anyways, I thank the organizers for the rare opportunity. Long live Blogosphere.app, long live blogs.
sailfast
[delayed]
sehgalmayank001
Webrings didn't fail because the idea was bad. They got buried under SEO and social feeds. Now that both of those are broken, hand curation starts to look less like a step backward and more like the only thing that was ever actually working.
ml-
Nice job. A small suggestion, unless I completely missed it, an option to filter by post / blog language.
ramkarthikk
Great feedback. I will add search to this minimal version. The non-minimal version comes with search. Filter by language is something neither has and will be a great addition.
setnone
This is great.
I'm curious what's your vision on adding comments?
ramkarthikk
If you're referring to comments on the website, I plan to keep it minimal (the text version is a static site).
If you're referring to comments on blogs in general, I have many thoughts. Back in the day, comments used to be how you connected with people and let other people find you. It also came with spam (spam plugins could only do so much).
With the rise of static site generators, most people don't have comments on their blogs now. It is something I miss though.
AndrewStephens
I love this (and submitted my blog) - people bemoan the death of the Old Web™ but in reality there is still heaps of great content being created.
SirFatty
Did you use Frontpage to create your frontpage?
reconnecting
<meta name="generator" content="FrontPage 4.0">
postalcoder
If anyone looking for something even more minimalist, give the HN x Small Web RSS feed a try
Great work, I haven't updated my public site in years while I waited for the LLM stuff to play out, but you've inspired me to put it back out there and submit.
mmargenot
Very cool! This was a good impetus to actually add RSS to my blog.
kangraemin
[flagged]
ramkarthikk
Its chronological - most recently published first (no algorithm or voting).
efilife
Don't engage. This is a bot.
sebastianconcpt
Yeah we need to make curated human signals stronger.
Biologist123
Nice. I can see a version of this working for ever more niche areas. Curated reading lists for areas of interest. At which point a curated list of curated lists becomes viable!
jasoneckert
This is great, thanks! It sort of feels like browsing for gems in a used bookstore and stumbling onto authentic, personal writing. I'm always up for that, and plan on spending plenty of time exploring the list.
I’ve submitted mine as well - cheers!
glenstein
>It sort of feels like browsing for gems in a used bookstore and stumbling onto authentic, personal writing
I don't know that I've heard a better description of the thing the so-called small web is about than that. It's the clearest answer to the "why" of having a small web of discoverable personal blogs and sites.
ramkarthikk
That is such a lovely way to put it. Do you mind if I add it to the about page and link to this comment?
nextaccountic
Question, is this strictly chronological, or is there anything at all to make this an "algorithmic feed" like HN, reddit, twitter, or facebook? (list is roughly in the order of less shitty to more shitty, but note that none of them are chronological, unlike, say, a RSS reader aggregating some set of blogs)
ramkarthikk
This is strictly chronological. No voting, no algorithm.
dchuk
Very clean site, well done. I’ve built something similar, but it also has an algorithmic front page option as well based on the “standard” algorithm from Reddit/HN: https://engineered.at
I also have it wired up to gpt nano for topic extraction and summary creation per post, if you register for an account (free) you can also follow sources and topics to fine tune things.
I have a big list of features to continue adding to it, like an ability to “claim” your site so you can get some analytics from the site, and potentially to boost your site in the algorithm. Might also add a jobs board.
Not sure if you want feedback on this, but mine is free.
The lists are impenetrable for my eye, I think an key mistake is that you don't use an accent color for titles in lists (i.e. look at a google serp).
That you don't directly link the content, felt like an offense, followed by a slap in the face looking at an AI generated summary.
The layout feels too reddit and too industrialized and the way you plan to progress the project, rings my "pet project to slam ad's on" bells.
I think the pure intent of OPs site naturally makes it more approachable and likeable.
lemiffe
Great idea! Could you add a "music" category please for blogs?
danielszlaski
Nice and clean.
LostMyLogin
Love this! New homepage for me. Do you have a buy me coffee button to help keep it live?
glenstein
Right! My concern with these tools is sometimes they are too good for this world and likely to live a few months.
ramkarthikk
Appreciate it :) I don't have one. This is hosted on Cloudflare as a static site and a cron that runs on a $5 VM (that also hosts other things). So it doesn't cost me much to keep it alive other than the domain cost. I built it this way intentionally so that I can keep this running forever.
glenstein
Love this! I very much appreciate the inclusion of a lightweight version, as I think lightweight discovery for blogs and the small web is where good tools and apps are needed.
Also, given that the lightweight version is very hn styled format it naturally leads my brain to imagining a version with upvotes and commenters (which may be a good or a bad thing) but with the link submission part automated. Not necessarily the intent here but it was the first time that particular combination of possibilities occurred to me as a way to do things.
Also curious about how these blogs are indexed/reviewed. Is the list ever pruned over time due to inactivity?
ramkarthikk
Thank you. The initial list was from blogroll.org (mentioned in the about page, and I emailed the person who built that). From then on, I review every submission that happens via the form.
The scheduler flags blogs that fail and doesn't try to fetch after a few tries. I'm still working on an effective way to re-review and prune. Open to any feedback.
However, I think (text.)Blogosphere has a nicer interface, personally. Maybe I'm just used to HN.
Imustaskforhelp
Yes!! I found a new website to use :-)
I just hope if you can add dark-mode, I use hackernews essential which adds dark mode and more features which I really like in hackernews, Perhaps something like this can be added but overall I really like it!
You have (essentially) just made something which I imagined 2 years ago:
My point, which has only grown to an even larger degree is that Hackernews has too many AI discussions, which both feels a bit fomo to me and also I am seeing AI generated blog posts and comments now on Hackernews as well.
At some point, I want a website where I can talk about the more human aspects, some occasional AI mention is fine but not if a quarter or half of front page is hackernews and some genuinely nice projects don't get the attention :(
I had joined hackernews to read those content pieces and fell in love with the human discussion aspect but now there are definitely moments of browsing hackernews which makes me feel as to what I had written in the ask HN
my last line within the ask HN was: I just want people who don't want the latest ai hype to gather around and discuss some other cool things which are "not" AI. This kind of fits into that
Adding my submissions of blog-posts into it in sometime :) See you there!
rednafi
This is great. But I’ve bookmarked at least 10 of these aggregators over the years, and I never revisit any of them. Partly because I don’t have the time to browse and discover new content.
I also don’t read the blog spam from prolific writers who pop up here every two days, especially the low-quality ones constantly yapping about AI. So the number of blogs I revisit is a handful, and I have a page on my site listing them [1]. Some of the blogs I’ve listed also have backlinks to my site. It’s super simple and works fairly well for me. Plus there’s rss.
Any plans on adding a way to filter out "lower quality" posts which usually dominate chronologically sorted post lists?
And, possibly a way to filter type of content more in-depth than just one category?
ramkarthikk
No plans to add a filter for "lower quality" since that takes away from the ethos of RSS. Certainly looking to add more ways to filter. Open to ideas.
alc010
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_HMCB_
Superb! Thank you. Psychologically, the minimal version feels perfect; as if it were more connected with the spirit of blogging.
sodapopcan
Very nice, this is great! Love that you give the two UX options.
FYI (bug report): In the non-minimal version, navigating by category is janky in FireFox. The logo briefly disappears with the nav jumping up in its place every time you click a category.
But kudos for different people working on similar good ideas
napolux
scoring will bring spam and voting brigades if not managed properly
AnonyMD
It's a very modern and clean design.
highspeedbus
That's great. I wish we could convince more people to use similar tools regularly, myself included.
It may not 'scale' as well as algorithmic feeds, but maybe that's what will save the Web. We need more sweat and passion, both in curation of content and in the effort to find it.
robertheadley
Great concept, I miss the ability to like things though.
robertheadley
ah, looks like the .app version covers that. I will have to check it out outside of work.
siva7
This feels so Yahoo-1994. Love that we are getting back to our origins thanks to AI.
bookofjoe
That's so funny: I just reactivated my Yahoo email address.
reedlaw
I've come to the conclusion that Hacker News is the best aggregator out there. Substack knows my interests yet gives terrible recommendations. Youtube constantly recommends the same videos or exaggerates my interest in a topic based on a few views, spamming me with related content until I watch something unrelated. The only downside of Hacker News is that its focus is narrower than other sites. But perhaps because the focus is "Anything that good hackers would find interesting" there is a bias towards things I find interesting with less noise than more commercial offerings.
l72
I always thought the "planets"[1][2][3] were a neat idea. I wish there were more of them for dedicated topics. Then I can just subscribe to specific planets which pulls curated feeds from various blogs on that topic.
Hahahahha... I was trying to build something like this for a while. Seems like I wasn't the only one with this idea. So happy someone finally did it!
tombert
Interesting. I submitted mine.
gorbiesRedScar
perfect.
riceballs_tlp
How do you curate the blogs that are being added to this? I see that there's a way to submit your own blog, but was there a list you started with initially? Thanks for making this!
gosingk
Nice project
akshitgaur2005
Hey, I am just getting started with blogging, could/should I submit my website too?
tpemist
Thanks for sharing, it's a great idea! but the site is not reachable now, it stuck.
trvz
This is silly.
RSS readers exist. Feed a Fever was even better.
ronb1964
Funny timing — I tried to submit my own Show HN today for a small Linux app I've been building and got blocked because my account is too new. Spent the afternoon reading through HN threads to build up some karma instead. Feels like the indie software equivalent of the same problem this project is trying to solve — it's getting harder for small, genuine projects to find an audience without gaming some system first. Appreciate what you've built here!
susam
This is a very nice project! Thank you for creating it and sharing it here on HN. I like the minimal version more but the modern version is quite nice too. I would probably stick to the minimal version but since it seems to lack the search feature I end up using the modern version for that.
By the way, some minor issues I found:
1. In the minimal version, when browsing the list of blogs I cannot get past page 12. The last page the UI lets me navigate to is https://text.blogosphere.app/blogs-12 which shows blogs up to names starting with 'M'. I can reach page 13 by manually editing the URL to https://text.blogosphere.app/blogs-13 which shows two blogs starting with 'N'. However, pages 14 and beyond just load the home page. Surely there are more blogs with names starting with 'O', 'P', etc.?
2. The modern version at https://blogosphere.app/ uses infinite scroll, which makes it impossible to reach the footer. Each time I scroll down, more content loads and pushes the footer further away. I was only able to view the footer by modifying the DOM in the browser's developer tools. It would be nice if there were a straightforward way to access the footer.
ramkarthikk
Thank you for the detailed feedback. I'm glad you like this project.
1. Yeah, there are definitely more blogs. Seems like an issue paginating and fetching it at build time. I will check this.
2. I generally don't prefer infinite scroll but since people are used to it on social media, I kept it on the modern version. It does make it impossible to see the footer. I will figure out a way around this. In the meantime, the "Submit" page should display the footer.
I'm also going to add search to the minimal version since I also prefer it over the modern version and search is useful.
dalmo3
TBH I'd love to see that idea as a /blogs list here at HN.
freetonik
Very cool! Love the minimal design a lot, unsurprisingly.
My Minifeed [1] started with a similar goal of having a "HN for blogs", but then it grew to include search, related recommendations, custom feeds, lists, etc. I don't have categories though.
Could you add a form submission button next to the filter, so that it doesn't require JavaScript? (Or actually that can probably be done easily enough with some kind of CSS variable-setting trick...?)
sourcegrift
"A woman had sex with identical twins and now it's impossible to tell who is the father", is this a blog post or news or sarcastic news or what the hell
Bubbles is different, because the front page is created by real people voting. It also supports comments, blogs in EN and DE, as well as following blogs.
Johnny_Bonk
One recommendation is to keep header fixed on scroll so you can always nav away. most sites fail to do this it seems
mm263
Fixed header isn't always a good thing, it can also be a mistake. Since content is the product, let the content take up all available space and use your browser navigation capabilities to navigate if necessary
givemeethekeys
This is a great idea. I think you should ask people to pay a subscription for commenting. Turn it into a community supported site from the get go!
skeptrune
This is awesome! I'm happy someone made this exist.
ashwinne
I would love a old-school search engine that pulls results purely from a well curated list of websites and blogs.
i can't describe how happy this project makes me feel. Honestly, i don't even know why. I mean, the idea is great but it's nothing "extra", still it just feels right. Like breath of fresh air.
rodarima
Amazing that the minimal version works in Dillo, except for the categories menu which uses JS (using a form and submit button inside a noscript tag would work as a fallback).
It aggregates the top articles on STEAMD topics (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math, and Design) from various forums and displays them in chronological order.
This includes forums like Hacker News, Tildes, Lobsters, Slashdot, Bear, and some science, tech & programming related subreddits.
This is awesome. I find myself seeking out blogs nowadays as many of the best forums have died out and reddit has dropped in quality significantly.
I typically use marginalia and wiby to make finding posts from blogs easier, but I like the idea of providing hn style mechanics to blog posts, so many of which lack the ability to comment/discuss the material. At the same time, while I think this is a useful tool, I am a little weary of the aggregation and consolidation of the web.
KronisLV
Vaguely related, I did an extremely basic RSS feed combiner ages ago: https://hn-blogs.kronis.dev/ when there was that one post where people could share their blogs and many of those had RSS feeds.
That said, it got its list of feeds from the repo that someone made which hasn't been updated in a few years, so even if new blog content gets pulled, the list of blogs doesn't change. Oh well, wasn't a super serious project.
glerk
Sweet! Glad to see so many active personal blogs. We should push to bring back RSS feeds somehow. I really miss that era.
rpgbr
Very cool!
We have something similar — asort of “planet” — for personal blogs in Brazil. It's open source, maybe it can be useful for someone: https://github.com/manualdousuario/lerama
Very cool!! It's actually full of blogs! I've seen lots of claims for this kind of thing, glad to see you followed through!
millionclicks
Awesome idea. You should launch this on Buildfeed.co.
quanwinn
Love this! Was the UI done with Claude or some LLM? Not a critique, just curious because the designs give off that vibe to me.
matheusmoreira
> If you don't find your blog, please add them.
> RSS / Atom Feed URL *
I really need to implement an RSS/Atom feed in my static site generator, the lack of this feature is really starting to hurt. I can probably get Claude to help me with this.
and was pleasantly surprised to see my blog was already on this website!
stevenicr
I see the footer, then it disappears - (next scroll kicks in) - see foot, disappears, repeat.. (desktop, firefox)
It's time we bring back webrings and optional auto-check for recip links - with options to check for nofollow and do a thing or not.
Webring code anyone can self host - have notification and approval and accept nofollow links as okay by default should work fine.
Thinking of them getting bigger, might need to give surfers and option to sort by tags / categories / newest / oldest.
have option for website owner to prioritize or highlight a few as first seen each month..
OpFour
I made something similar, but for Linux news and information! thelinuxreport.com :D
jadbox
No voting? How is it curated?
paulpauper
"All submissions are manually reviewed before appearing in the directory."
it's like the late 90s early 2000s again
rav3ndust
cool stuff. have already found and bookmarked a few interesting sites just going through the list.
submitted my own blog there as well. it is cool seeing human-curated directories coming back (not that they truly left, but i've been seeing more and more over the last few years around the 'indie web')
i do a little something like this on my own site, but it is just a simple directory of sites that i like listed by category on a single page.
ddingus
I love this. THANK YOU.
aavci
I love the idea of such frontpages. There should be one for small scale b2c apps as well to help discovery
Great job.
Submitted my blog.
Thank you. I approved your blog. Quick note: It looks like your feed items don't have published date which makes it hard to store and sort recent posts.
What if I have a personal handwritten blog but it has nazist content?
I would recommend deleting it, reading up on fascism and psychology and trying to fix whatever makes you prone to extremism in a different way that radicalism and hate.
The OP doesn't need to approve every blog that is submitted
Something like this is very much needed.
I hope to see more things like this.
What would be really cool is if there was a personalized algorithm (for you page) that stored data and processed locally.
Thank you. I wanted to mostly stay away from algorithmic feed to stay true to RSS. On the non-minimal version of the site, you can sign up and follow blogs to have a "For You" tab, but it's still recent posts from blogs you follow.
give people the ability to curate their own collections and publish them
On the non-minimal version, you can signup for an account and follow blogs (curate your fav blogs). I will add an option to making your list public.
Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this, both of which I remember well. That's not a criticism! I guess that the quality-drop in search wasn't quite enough to make it happen, but the advent of AI content predomination will be.
Similarly, I feel like book publishers are about to become a thriving business soon again. With any book being most likely just a bot creation, trusting "Random House" sounds like a thing more of us will start paying attention to to make sure we're buying a human made thing.
I wouldn't even call this a regression. Hand curated and edited feels like the future I want right now.
> Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this
One of these hand-curated blog aggregator websites pops up on HN about every month. They're cool and good on the author for trying to solve the problem, but it seems like the wrong approach to me. They're too disorganized, a random collection of mostly tech- and politics-related writing from random people with zero way to vet the quality of the writing. They also require the creator/owner to care about the project for the long-term, which is unlikely. I never revisit the aggregators.
I wonder if webrings are a better fix here. The low-tech version could be to put a static-URL page on my blog that links to other blogs I like, with a short description. Then people who find my blog interesting might also enjoy the blogs that I enjoy. That could be powerful if it caught on widely.
Maybe a clever person could come up with some kind of higher-tech version that could present a more interesting & consistent interface to users, encourage blogs to link back to each other, and also solve the dead-link problem.
I follow awesome lists. These are curated lists of software. It reverts google indexing, because search is awful.
About personal blogs... I have many many personal blogs in my repository. Around 4k. Respository below. The real problem is to find quality stuff. You can have millions of them, but if they are not worth my time, then what is the point?
I cannot verify and decide what is good manually. Obviously.
I think we cannot also rely on Google to provide rating, nor any corporation.
So I have my own ratings, because at least I will be able to find what I found worth before.
Link to my repo:
https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
Do you have any idea what killed webrings?
It seems to be simply a great idea...like...should we bring it back? Could we?
We're heading to a future where (when) friction is a luxury. Anyways, I thank the organizers for the rare opportunity. Long live Blogosphere.app, long live blogs.
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Webrings didn't fail because the idea was bad. They got buried under SEO and social feeds. Now that both of those are broken, hand curation starts to look less like a step backward and more like the only thing that was ever actually working.
Nice job. A small suggestion, unless I completely missed it, an option to filter by post / blog language.
Great feedback. I will add search to this minimal version. The non-minimal version comes with search. Filter by language is something neither has and will be a great addition.
This is great. I'm curious what's your vision on adding comments?
If you're referring to comments on the website, I plan to keep it minimal (the text version is a static site).
If you're referring to comments on blogs in general, I have many thoughts. Back in the day, comments used to be how you connected with people and let other people find you. It also came with spam (spam plugins could only do so much).
With the rise of static site generators, most people don't have comments on their blogs now. It is something I miss though.
I love this (and submitted my blog) - people bemoan the death of the Old Web™ but in reality there is still heaps of great content being created.
Did you use Frontpage to create your frontpage?
<meta name="generator" content="FrontPage 4.0">
If anyone looking for something even more minimalist, give the HN x Small Web RSS feed a try
https://hcker.news/feeds/atom?period=day&limit=50&smallweb=t...
Great work, I haven't updated my public site in years while I waited for the LLM stuff to play out, but you've inspired me to put it back out there and submit.
Very cool! This was a good impetus to actually add RSS to my blog.
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Its chronological - most recently published first (no algorithm or voting).
Don't engage. This is a bot.
Yeah we need to make curated human signals stronger.
Nice. I can see a version of this working for ever more niche areas. Curated reading lists for areas of interest. At which point a curated list of curated lists becomes viable!
This is great, thanks! It sort of feels like browsing for gems in a used bookstore and stumbling onto authentic, personal writing. I'm always up for that, and plan on spending plenty of time exploring the list.
I’ve submitted mine as well - cheers!
>It sort of feels like browsing for gems in a used bookstore and stumbling onto authentic, personal writing
I don't know that I've heard a better description of the thing the so-called small web is about than that. It's the clearest answer to the "why" of having a small web of discoverable personal blogs and sites.
That is such a lovely way to put it. Do you mind if I add it to the about page and link to this comment?
Question, is this strictly chronological, or is there anything at all to make this an "algorithmic feed" like HN, reddit, twitter, or facebook? (list is roughly in the order of less shitty to more shitty, but note that none of them are chronological, unlike, say, a RSS reader aggregating some set of blogs)
This is strictly chronological. No voting, no algorithm.
Very clean site, well done. I’ve built something similar, but it also has an algorithmic front page option as well based on the “standard” algorithm from Reddit/HN: https://engineered.at
I also have it wired up to gpt nano for topic extraction and summary creation per post, if you register for an account (free) you can also follow sources and topics to fine tune things.
I have a big list of features to continue adding to it, like an ability to “claim” your site so you can get some analytics from the site, and potentially to boost your site in the algorithm. Might also add a jobs board.
If you’re interested, while this site is closed source, the feed monitoring rails engine is open source: https://github.com/dchuk/source_monitor
Not sure if you want feedback on this, but mine is free.
The lists are impenetrable for my eye, I think an key mistake is that you don't use an accent color for titles in lists (i.e. look at a google serp).
That you don't directly link the content, felt like an offense, followed by a slap in the face looking at an AI generated summary.
The layout feels too reddit and too industrialized and the way you plan to progress the project, rings my "pet project to slam ad's on" bells.
I think the pure intent of OPs site naturally makes it more approachable and likeable.
Great idea! Could you add a "music" category please for blogs?
Nice and clean.
Love this! New homepage for me. Do you have a buy me coffee button to help keep it live?
Right! My concern with these tools is sometimes they are too good for this world and likely to live a few months.
Appreciate it :) I don't have one. This is hosted on Cloudflare as a static site and a cron that runs on a $5 VM (that also hosts other things). So it doesn't cost me much to keep it alive other than the domain cost. I built it this way intentionally so that I can keep this running forever.
Love this! I very much appreciate the inclusion of a lightweight version, as I think lightweight discovery for blogs and the small web is where good tools and apps are needed.
Also, given that the lightweight version is very hn styled format it naturally leads my brain to imagining a version with upvotes and commenters (which may be a good or a bad thing) but with the link submission part automated. Not necessarily the intent here but it was the first time that particular combination of possibilities occurred to me as a way to do things.
Also curious about how these blogs are indexed/reviewed. Is the list ever pruned over time due to inactivity?
Thank you. The initial list was from blogroll.org (mentioned in the about page, and I emailed the person who built that). From then on, I review every submission that happens via the form.
The scheduler flags blogs that fail and doesn't try to fetch after a few tries. I'm still working on an effective way to re-review and prune. Open to any feedback.
There's also this: https://minifeed.net/global
However, I think (text.)Blogosphere has a nicer interface, personally. Maybe I'm just used to HN.
Yes!! I found a new website to use :-)
I just hope if you can add dark-mode, I use hackernews essential which adds dark mode and more features which I really like in hackernews, Perhaps something like this can be added but overall I really like it!
You have (essentially) just made something which I imagined 2 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789661: Ask HN: Are you interested in a Hacker News alternative which doesnt focus on AI (Oct 9 2024)
My point, which has only grown to an even larger degree is that Hackernews has too many AI discussions, which both feels a bit fomo to me and also I am seeing AI generated blog posts and comments now on Hackernews as well.
At some point, I want a website where I can talk about the more human aspects, some occasional AI mention is fine but not if a quarter or half of front page is hackernews and some genuinely nice projects don't get the attention :(
I had joined hackernews to read those content pieces and fell in love with the human discussion aspect but now there are definitely moments of browsing hackernews which makes me feel as to what I had written in the ask HN
my last line within the ask HN was: I just want people who don't want the latest ai hype to gather around and discuss some other cool things which are "not" AI. This kind of fits into that
Adding my submissions of blog-posts into it in sometime :) See you there!
This is great. But I’ve bookmarked at least 10 of these aggregators over the years, and I never revisit any of them. Partly because I don’t have the time to browse and discover new content.
I also don’t read the blog spam from prolific writers who pop up here every two days, especially the low-quality ones constantly yapping about AI. So the number of blogs I revisit is a handful, and I have a page on my site listing them [1]. Some of the blogs I’ve listed also have backlinks to my site. It’s super simple and works fairly well for me. Plus there’s rss.
[1]: https://rednafi.com/blogroll/
This doesn't have an RSS feed? bummer
yeah +12 if it had an rss feed
Variety! I appreciate that it's not all tech writing from tech blogs from people in tech like almost every blog list/aggregator thing on HN.
super dope. now make it infinite scroll and put ads all over the place! /s
I love it.
I'd love a search bar and maybe a means to sort by popularity (however you define it.)
I like that it's free and clean and direct; I hope it remains that way!
Now please build a frontpage for all the frontpages on blogs
Lovely!
Those who enjoy this might also like:
- https://kagi.com/smallweb
- https://blogroll.org/
- https://minifeed.net/welcome
- https://ooh.directory/
https://powrss.com
and https://slashpages.net is also a nice way to discover new blogs...
Any plans on adding a way to filter out "lower quality" posts which usually dominate chronologically sorted post lists?
And, possibly a way to filter type of content more in-depth than just one category?
No plans to add a filter for "lower quality" since that takes away from the ethos of RSS. Certainly looking to add more ways to filter. Open to ideas.
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Superb! Thank you. Psychologically, the minimal version feels perfect; as if it were more connected with the spirit of blogging.
Very nice, this is great! Love that you give the two UX options.
FYI (bug report): In the non-minimal version, navigating by category is janky in FireFox. The logo briefly disappears with the nav jumping up in its place every time you click a category.
Ah, thank you. I will check this.
FWIW hackr.news has a smallweb filter: https://hcker.news/?smallweb=true
But kudos for different people working on similar good ideas
scoring will bring spam and voting brigades if not managed properly
It's a very modern and clean design.
That's great. I wish we could convince more people to use similar tools regularly, myself included.
It may not 'scale' as well as algorithmic feeds, but maybe that's what will save the Web. We need more sweat and passion, both in curation of content and in the effort to find it.
Great concept, I miss the ability to like things though.
ah, looks like the .app version covers that. I will have to check it out outside of work.
This feels so Yahoo-1994. Love that we are getting back to our origins thanks to AI.
That's so funny: I just reactivated my Yahoo email address.
I've come to the conclusion that Hacker News is the best aggregator out there. Substack knows my interests yet gives terrible recommendations. Youtube constantly recommends the same videos or exaggerates my interest in a topic based on a few views, spamming me with related content until I watch something unrelated. The only downside of Hacker News is that its focus is narrower than other sites. But perhaps because the focus is "Anything that good hackers would find interesting" there is a bias towards things I find interesting with less noise than more commercial offerings.
I always thought the "planets"[1][2][3] were a neat idea. I wish there were more of them for dedicated topics. Then I can just subscribe to specific planets which pulls curated feeds from various blogs on that topic.
[1] Planet Gnome: https://planet.gnome.org/
[2] Planet Debian: https://planet.debian.org/
[3] Planet GNU: https://planet.gnu.org/
I've been building an index of planets and related projects. There's a lot, especially for technical topics, but I also wish there were more.
Ctrl-F for planet: https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/blogrolls/
There's an older list at https://web.archive.org/web/20170823064412/http://planetplan...
Hahahahha... I was trying to build something like this for a while. Seems like I wasn't the only one with this idea. So happy someone finally did it!
Interesting. I submitted mine.
perfect.
How do you curate the blogs that are being added to this? I see that there's a way to submit your own blog, but was there a list you started with initially? Thanks for making this!
Nice project
Hey, I am just getting started with blogging, could/should I submit my website too?
Thanks for sharing, it's a great idea! but the site is not reachable now, it stuck.
This is silly.
RSS readers exist. Feed a Fever was even better.
Funny timing — I tried to submit my own Show HN today for a small Linux app I've been building and got blocked because my account is too new. Spent the afternoon reading through HN threads to build up some karma instead. Feels like the indie software equivalent of the same problem this project is trying to solve — it's getting harder for small, genuine projects to find an audience without gaming some system first. Appreciate what you've built here!
This is a very nice project! Thank you for creating it and sharing it here on HN. I like the minimal version more but the modern version is quite nice too. I would probably stick to the minimal version but since it seems to lack the search feature I end up using the modern version for that.
By the way, some minor issues I found:
1. In the minimal version, when browsing the list of blogs I cannot get past page 12. The last page the UI lets me navigate to is https://text.blogosphere.app/blogs-12 which shows blogs up to names starting with 'M'. I can reach page 13 by manually editing the URL to https://text.blogosphere.app/blogs-13 which shows two blogs starting with 'N'. However, pages 14 and beyond just load the home page. Surely there are more blogs with names starting with 'O', 'P', etc.?
2. The modern version at https://blogosphere.app/ uses infinite scroll, which makes it impossible to reach the footer. Each time I scroll down, more content loads and pushes the footer further away. I was only able to view the footer by modifying the DOM in the browser's developer tools. It would be nice if there were a straightforward way to access the footer.
Thank you for the detailed feedback. I'm glad you like this project.
1. Yeah, there are definitely more blogs. Seems like an issue paginating and fetching it at build time. I will check this. 2. I generally don't prefer infinite scroll but since people are used to it on social media, I kept it on the modern version. It does make it impossible to see the footer. I will figure out a way around this. In the meantime, the "Submit" page should display the footer.
I'm also going to add search to the minimal version since I also prefer it over the modern version and search is useful.
TBH I'd love to see that idea as a /blogs list here at HN.
Very cool! Love the minimal design a lot, unsurprisingly.
My Minifeed [1] started with a similar goal of having a "HN for blogs", but then it grew to include search, related recommendations, custom feeds, lists, etc. I don't have categories though.
[1] https://minifeed.net/
Addition of a "Dark Mode" button would be much appreciated!
> Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/
Could you add a form submission button next to the filter, so that it doesn't require JavaScript? (Or actually that can probably be done easily enough with some kind of CSS variable-setting trick...?)
"A woman had sex with identical twins and now it's impossible to tell who is the father", is this a blog post or news or sarcastic news or what the hell
Great idea!
Small web, try this one https://bubbles.town
Bubbles is different, because the front page is created by real people voting. It also supports comments, blogs in EN and DE, as well as following blogs.
One recommendation is to keep header fixed on scroll so you can always nav away. most sites fail to do this it seems
Fixed header isn't always a good thing, it can also be a mistake. Since content is the product, let the content take up all available space and use your browser navigation capabilities to navigate if necessary
This is a great idea. I think you should ask people to pay a subscription for commenting. Turn it into a community supported site from the get go!
This is awesome! I'm happy someone made this exist.
I would love a old-school search engine that pulls results purely from a well curated list of websites and blogs.
https://kagi.com/smallweb/
i can't describe how happy this project makes me feel. Honestly, i don't even know why. I mean, the idea is great but it's nothing "extra", still it just feels right. Like breath of fresh air.
Amazing that the minimal version works in Dillo, except for the categories menu which uses JS (using a form and submit button inside a noscript tag would work as a fallback).
Ooooh I love these indie web aggregators. I wrote about some of my favorite ones here if anyone's curious: https://nelson.cloud/how-i-discover-new-blogs/.
But here are some of my fav ways to discover blogs:
- https://minifeed.net/welcome
- https://indieblog.page/
- https://1mb.club/
- https://512kb.club/
- https://250kb.club/
I'd like to submit my own aggregator to your list:
https://limereader.com/
It aggregates the top articles on STEAMD topics (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math, and Design) from various forums and displays them in chronological order.
This includes forums like Hacker News, Tildes, Lobsters, Slashdot, Bear, and some science, tech & programming related subreddits.
You can read more here:
https://limereader.com/about
I should create an aggregator aggregator
A few more:
- https://powrss.com/
- https://blogroll.org/
- https://ooh.directory/
This is awesome. I find myself seeking out blogs nowadays as many of the best forums have died out and reddit has dropped in quality significantly.
I typically use marginalia and wiby to make finding posts from blogs easier, but I like the idea of providing hn style mechanics to blog posts, so many of which lack the ability to comment/discuss the material. At the same time, while I think this is a useful tool, I am a little weary of the aggregation and consolidation of the web.
Vaguely related, I did an extremely basic RSS feed combiner ages ago: https://hn-blogs.kronis.dev/ when there was that one post where people could share their blogs and many of those had RSS feeds.
That said, it got its list of feeds from the repo that someone made which hasn't been updated in a few years, so even if new blog content gets pulled, the list of blogs doesn't change. Oh well, wasn't a super serious project.
Sweet! Glad to see so many active personal blogs. We should push to bring back RSS feeds somehow. I really miss that era.
Very cool!
We have something similar — asort of “planet” — for personal blogs in Brazil. It's open source, maybe it can be useful for someone: https://github.com/manualdousuario/lerama
Our instance: https://lerama.pcdomanual.com
Very cool!! It's actually full of blogs! I've seen lots of claims for this kind of thing, glad to see you followed through!
Awesome idea. You should launch this on Buildfeed.co.
Love this! Was the UI done with Claude or some LLM? Not a critique, just curious because the designs give off that vibe to me.
> If you don't find your blog, please add them.
> RSS / Atom Feed URL *
I really need to implement an RSS/Atom feed in my static site generator, the lack of this feature is really starting to hurt. I can probably get Claude to help me with this.
I vibe coded RSS feed for my static site generator a few months ago: https://github.com/dllu/dllup-rs/blob/main/src/main.rs#L850
and was pleasantly surprised to see my blog was already on this website!
I see the footer, then it disappears - (next scroll kicks in) - see foot, disappears, repeat.. (desktop, firefox)
It's time we bring back webrings and optional auto-check for recip links - with options to check for nofollow and do a thing or not.
Webring code anyone can self host - have notification and approval and accept nofollow links as okay by default should work fine.
Thinking of them getting bigger, might need to give surfers and option to sort by tags / categories / newest / oldest. have option for website owner to prioritize or highlight a few as first seen each month..
I made something similar, but for Linux news and information! thelinuxreport.com :D
No voting? How is it curated?
"All submissions are manually reviewed before appearing in the directory."
it's like the late 90s early 2000s again
cool stuff. have already found and bookmarked a few interesting sites just going through the list.
submitted my own blog there as well. it is cool seeing human-curated directories coming back (not that they truly left, but i've been seeing more and more over the last few years around the 'indie web')
i do a little something like this on my own site, but it is just a simple directory of sites that i like listed by category on a single page.
I love this. THANK YOU.
I love the idea of such frontpages. There should be one for small scale b2c apps as well to help discovery
Great job.
Submitted my blog.
Thank you. I approved your blog. Quick note: It looks like your feed items don't have published date which makes it hard to store and sort recent posts.
What if I have a personal handwritten blog but it has nazist content?
I would recommend deleting it, reading up on fascism and psychology and trying to fix whatever makes you prone to extremism in a different way that radicalism and hate.
The OP doesn't need to approve every blog that is submitted
Something like this is very much needed.
I hope to see more things like this.
What would be really cool is if there was a personalized algorithm (for you page) that stored data and processed locally.
Thank you. I wanted to mostly stay away from algorithmic feed to stay true to RSS. On the non-minimal version of the site, you can sign up and follow blogs to have a "For You" tab, but it's still recent posts from blogs you follow.
give people the ability to curate their own collections and publish them
On the non-minimal version, you can signup for an account and follow blogs (curate your fav blogs). I will add an option to making your list public.
Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this, both of which I remember well. That's not a criticism! I guess that the quality-drop in search wasn't quite enough to make it happen, but the advent of AI content predomination will be.
Similarly, I feel like book publishers are about to become a thriving business soon again. With any book being most likely just a bot creation, trusting "Random House" sounds like a thing more of us will start paying attention to to make sure we're buying a human made thing.
I wouldn't even call this a regression. Hand curated and edited feels like the future I want right now.
> Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this
One of these hand-curated blog aggregator websites pops up on HN about every month. They're cool and good on the author for trying to solve the problem, but it seems like the wrong approach to me. They're too disorganized, a random collection of mostly tech- and politics-related writing from random people with zero way to vet the quality of the writing. They also require the creator/owner to care about the project for the long-term, which is unlikely. I never revisit the aggregators.
I wonder if webrings are a better fix here. The low-tech version could be to put a static-URL page on my blog that links to other blogs I like, with a short description. Then people who find my blog interesting might also enjoy the blogs that I enjoy. That could be powerful if it caught on widely.
Maybe a clever person could come up with some kind of higher-tech version that could present a more interesting & consistent interface to users, encourage blogs to link back to each other, and also solve the dead-link problem.
I follow awesome lists. These are curated lists of software. It reverts google indexing, because search is awful.
About personal blogs... I have many many personal blogs in my repository. Around 4k. Respository below. The real problem is to find quality stuff. You can have millions of them, but if they are not worth my time, then what is the point?
I cannot verify and decide what is good manually. Obviously.
I think we cannot also rely on Google to provide rating, nor any corporation.
So I have my own ratings, because at least I will be able to find what I found worth before.
Link to my repo:
https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
Do you have any idea what killed webrings?
It seems to be simply a great idea...like...should we bring it back? Could we?
We're heading to a future where (when) friction is a luxury. Anyways, I thank the organizers for the rare opportunity. Long live Blogosphere.app, long live blogs.
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Webrings didn't fail because the idea was bad. They got buried under SEO and social feeds. Now that both of those are broken, hand curation starts to look less like a step backward and more like the only thing that was ever actually working.
Nice job. A small suggestion, unless I completely missed it, an option to filter by post / blog language.
Great feedback. I will add search to this minimal version. The non-minimal version comes with search. Filter by language is something neither has and will be a great addition.
This is great. I'm curious what's your vision on adding comments?
If you're referring to comments on the website, I plan to keep it minimal (the text version is a static site).
If you're referring to comments on blogs in general, I have many thoughts. Back in the day, comments used to be how you connected with people and let other people find you. It also came with spam (spam plugins could only do so much).
With the rise of static site generators, most people don't have comments on their blogs now. It is something I miss though.
I love this (and submitted my blog) - people bemoan the death of the Old Web™ but in reality there is still heaps of great content being created.
Did you use Frontpage to create your frontpage?
<meta name="generator" content="FrontPage 4.0">
If anyone looking for something even more minimalist, give the HN x Small Web RSS feed a try
https://hcker.news/feeds/atom?period=day&limit=50&smallweb=t...
Great work, I haven't updated my public site in years while I waited for the LLM stuff to play out, but you've inspired me to put it back out there and submit.
Very cool! This was a good impetus to actually add RSS to my blog.
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Its chronological - most recently published first (no algorithm or voting).
Don't engage. This is a bot.
Yeah we need to make curated human signals stronger.
Nice. I can see a version of this working for ever more niche areas. Curated reading lists for areas of interest. At which point a curated list of curated lists becomes viable!
This is great, thanks! It sort of feels like browsing for gems in a used bookstore and stumbling onto authentic, personal writing. I'm always up for that, and plan on spending plenty of time exploring the list.
I’ve submitted mine as well - cheers!
>It sort of feels like browsing for gems in a used bookstore and stumbling onto authentic, personal writing
I don't know that I've heard a better description of the thing the so-called small web is about than that. It's the clearest answer to the "why" of having a small web of discoverable personal blogs and sites.
That is such a lovely way to put it. Do you mind if I add it to the about page and link to this comment?
Question, is this strictly chronological, or is there anything at all to make this an "algorithmic feed" like HN, reddit, twitter, or facebook? (list is roughly in the order of less shitty to more shitty, but note that none of them are chronological, unlike, say, a RSS reader aggregating some set of blogs)
This is strictly chronological. No voting, no algorithm.
Very clean site, well done. I’ve built something similar, but it also has an algorithmic front page option as well based on the “standard” algorithm from Reddit/HN: https://engineered.at
I also have it wired up to gpt nano for topic extraction and summary creation per post, if you register for an account (free) you can also follow sources and topics to fine tune things.
I have a big list of features to continue adding to it, like an ability to “claim” your site so you can get some analytics from the site, and potentially to boost your site in the algorithm. Might also add a jobs board.
If you’re interested, while this site is closed source, the feed monitoring rails engine is open source: https://github.com/dchuk/source_monitor
Not sure if you want feedback on this, but mine is free.
The lists are impenetrable for my eye, I think an key mistake is that you don't use an accent color for titles in lists (i.e. look at a google serp).
That you don't directly link the content, felt like an offense, followed by a slap in the face looking at an AI generated summary.
The layout feels too reddit and too industrialized and the way you plan to progress the project, rings my "pet project to slam ad's on" bells.
I think the pure intent of OPs site naturally makes it more approachable and likeable.
Great idea! Could you add a "music" category please for blogs?
Nice and clean.
Love this! New homepage for me. Do you have a buy me coffee button to help keep it live?
Right! My concern with these tools is sometimes they are too good for this world and likely to live a few months.
Appreciate it :) I don't have one. This is hosted on Cloudflare as a static site and a cron that runs on a $5 VM (that also hosts other things). So it doesn't cost me much to keep it alive other than the domain cost. I built it this way intentionally so that I can keep this running forever.
Love this! I very much appreciate the inclusion of a lightweight version, as I think lightweight discovery for blogs and the small web is where good tools and apps are needed.
Also, given that the lightweight version is very hn styled format it naturally leads my brain to imagining a version with upvotes and commenters (which may be a good or a bad thing) but with the link submission part automated. Not necessarily the intent here but it was the first time that particular combination of possibilities occurred to me as a way to do things.
Also curious about how these blogs are indexed/reviewed. Is the list ever pruned over time due to inactivity?
Thank you. The initial list was from blogroll.org (mentioned in the about page, and I emailed the person who built that). From then on, I review every submission that happens via the form.
The scheduler flags blogs that fail and doesn't try to fetch after a few tries. I'm still working on an effective way to re-review and prune. Open to any feedback.
There's also this: https://minifeed.net/global
However, I think (text.)Blogosphere has a nicer interface, personally. Maybe I'm just used to HN.
Yes!! I found a new website to use :-)
I just hope if you can add dark-mode, I use hackernews essential which adds dark mode and more features which I really like in hackernews, Perhaps something like this can be added but overall I really like it!
You have (essentially) just made something which I imagined 2 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789661: Ask HN: Are you interested in a Hacker News alternative which doesnt focus on AI (Oct 9 2024)
My point, which has only grown to an even larger degree is that Hackernews has too many AI discussions, which both feels a bit fomo to me and also I am seeing AI generated blog posts and comments now on Hackernews as well.
At some point, I want a website where I can talk about the more human aspects, some occasional AI mention is fine but not if a quarter or half of front page is hackernews and some genuinely nice projects don't get the attention :(
I had joined hackernews to read those content pieces and fell in love with the human discussion aspect but now there are definitely moments of browsing hackernews which makes me feel as to what I had written in the ask HN
my last line within the ask HN was: I just want people who don't want the latest ai hype to gather around and discuss some other cool things which are "not" AI. This kind of fits into that
Adding my submissions of blog-posts into it in sometime :) See you there!
This is great. But I’ve bookmarked at least 10 of these aggregators over the years, and I never revisit any of them. Partly because I don’t have the time to browse and discover new content.
I also don’t read the blog spam from prolific writers who pop up here every two days, especially the low-quality ones constantly yapping about AI. So the number of blogs I revisit is a handful, and I have a page on my site listing them [1]. Some of the blogs I’ve listed also have backlinks to my site. It’s super simple and works fairly well for me. Plus there’s rss.
[1]: https://rednafi.com/blogroll/
This doesn't have an RSS feed? bummer
yeah +12 if it had an rss feed
Variety! I appreciate that it's not all tech writing from tech blogs from people in tech like almost every blog list/aggregator thing on HN.
super dope. now make it infinite scroll and put ads all over the place! /s
I love it.
I'd love a search bar and maybe a means to sort by popularity (however you define it.)
I like that it's free and clean and direct; I hope it remains that way!
Now please build a frontpage for all the frontpages on blogs
Lovely!
Those who enjoy this might also like:
- https://kagi.com/smallweb
- https://blogroll.org/
- https://minifeed.net/welcome
- https://ooh.directory/
https://powrss.com
and https://slashpages.net is also a nice way to discover new blogs...
Any plans on adding a way to filter out "lower quality" posts which usually dominate chronologically sorted post lists?
And, possibly a way to filter type of content more in-depth than just one category?
No plans to add a filter for "lower quality" since that takes away from the ethos of RSS. Certainly looking to add more ways to filter. Open to ideas.
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Superb! Thank you. Psychologically, the minimal version feels perfect; as if it were more connected with the spirit of blogging.
Very nice, this is great! Love that you give the two UX options.
FYI (bug report): In the non-minimal version, navigating by category is janky in FireFox. The logo briefly disappears with the nav jumping up in its place every time you click a category.
Ah, thank you. I will check this.
FWIW hackr.news has a smallweb filter: https://hcker.news/?smallweb=true
But kudos for different people working on similar good ideas
scoring will bring spam and voting brigades if not managed properly
It's a very modern and clean design.
That's great. I wish we could convince more people to use similar tools regularly, myself included.
It may not 'scale' as well as algorithmic feeds, but maybe that's what will save the Web. We need more sweat and passion, both in curation of content and in the effort to find it.
Great concept, I miss the ability to like things though.
ah, looks like the .app version covers that. I will have to check it out outside of work.
This feels so Yahoo-1994. Love that we are getting back to our origins thanks to AI.
That's so funny: I just reactivated my Yahoo email address.
I've come to the conclusion that Hacker News is the best aggregator out there. Substack knows my interests yet gives terrible recommendations. Youtube constantly recommends the same videos or exaggerates my interest in a topic based on a few views, spamming me with related content until I watch something unrelated. The only downside of Hacker News is that its focus is narrower than other sites. But perhaps because the focus is "Anything that good hackers would find interesting" there is a bias towards things I find interesting with less noise than more commercial offerings.
I always thought the "planets"[1][2][3] were a neat idea. I wish there were more of them for dedicated topics. Then I can just subscribe to specific planets which pulls curated feeds from various blogs on that topic.
[1] Planet Gnome: https://planet.gnome.org/
[2] Planet Debian: https://planet.debian.org/
[3] Planet GNU: https://planet.gnu.org/
I've been building an index of planets and related projects. There's a lot, especially for technical topics, but I also wish there were more.
Ctrl-F for planet: https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/blogrolls/
There's an older list at https://web.archive.org/web/20170823064412/http://planetplan...
Hahahahha... I was trying to build something like this for a while. Seems like I wasn't the only one with this idea. So happy someone finally did it!
Interesting. I submitted mine.
perfect.
How do you curate the blogs that are being added to this? I see that there's a way to submit your own blog, but was there a list you started with initially? Thanks for making this!
Nice project
Hey, I am just getting started with blogging, could/should I submit my website too?
Thanks for sharing, it's a great idea! but the site is not reachable now, it stuck.
This is silly.
RSS readers exist. Feed a Fever was even better.
Funny timing — I tried to submit my own Show HN today for a small Linux app I've been building and got blocked because my account is too new. Spent the afternoon reading through HN threads to build up some karma instead. Feels like the indie software equivalent of the same problem this project is trying to solve — it's getting harder for small, genuine projects to find an audience without gaming some system first. Appreciate what you've built here!
This is a very nice project! Thank you for creating it and sharing it here on HN. I like the minimal version more but the modern version is quite nice too. I would probably stick to the minimal version but since it seems to lack the search feature I end up using the modern version for that.
By the way, some minor issues I found:
1. In the minimal version, when browsing the list of blogs I cannot get past page 12. The last page the UI lets me navigate to is https://text.blogosphere.app/blogs-12 which shows blogs up to names starting with 'M'. I can reach page 13 by manually editing the URL to https://text.blogosphere.app/blogs-13 which shows two blogs starting with 'N'. However, pages 14 and beyond just load the home page. Surely there are more blogs with names starting with 'O', 'P', etc.?
2. The modern version at https://blogosphere.app/ uses infinite scroll, which makes it impossible to reach the footer. Each time I scroll down, more content loads and pushes the footer further away. I was only able to view the footer by modifying the DOM in the browser's developer tools. It would be nice if there were a straightforward way to access the footer.
Thank you for the detailed feedback. I'm glad you like this project.
1. Yeah, there are definitely more blogs. Seems like an issue paginating and fetching it at build time. I will check this. 2. I generally don't prefer infinite scroll but since people are used to it on social media, I kept it on the modern version. It does make it impossible to see the footer. I will figure out a way around this. In the meantime, the "Submit" page should display the footer.
I'm also going to add search to the minimal version since I also prefer it over the modern version and search is useful.
TBH I'd love to see that idea as a /blogs list here at HN.
Very cool! Love the minimal design a lot, unsurprisingly.
My Minifeed [1] started with a similar goal of having a "HN for blogs", but then it grew to include search, related recommendations, custom feeds, lists, etc. I don't have categories though.
[1] https://minifeed.net/
Addition of a "Dark Mode" button would be much appreciated!
> Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/
Could you add a form submission button next to the filter, so that it doesn't require JavaScript? (Or actually that can probably be done easily enough with some kind of CSS variable-setting trick...?)
"A woman had sex with identical twins and now it's impossible to tell who is the father", is this a blog post or news or sarcastic news or what the hell
Great idea!
Small web, try this one https://bubbles.town
Bubbles is different, because the front page is created by real people voting. It also supports comments, blogs in EN and DE, as well as following blogs.
One recommendation is to keep header fixed on scroll so you can always nav away. most sites fail to do this it seems
Fixed header isn't always a good thing, it can also be a mistake. Since content is the product, let the content take up all available space and use your browser navigation capabilities to navigate if necessary
This is a great idea. I think you should ask people to pay a subscription for commenting. Turn it into a community supported site from the get go!
This is awesome! I'm happy someone made this exist.
I would love a old-school search engine that pulls results purely from a well curated list of websites and blogs.
https://kagi.com/smallweb/
i can't describe how happy this project makes me feel. Honestly, i don't even know why. I mean, the idea is great but it's nothing "extra", still it just feels right. Like breath of fresh air.
Amazing that the minimal version works in Dillo, except for the categories menu which uses JS (using a form and submit button inside a noscript tag would work as a fallback).
Ooooh I love these indie web aggregators. I wrote about some of my favorite ones here if anyone's curious: https://nelson.cloud/how-i-discover-new-blogs/.
But here are some of my fav ways to discover blogs:
- https://minifeed.net/welcome
- https://indieblog.page/
- https://1mb.club/
- https://512kb.club/
- https://250kb.club/
I'd like to submit my own aggregator to your list:
https://limereader.com/
It aggregates the top articles on STEAMD topics (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math, and Design) from various forums and displays them in chronological order.
This includes forums like Hacker News, Tildes, Lobsters, Slashdot, Bear, and some science, tech & programming related subreddits.
You can read more here:
https://limereader.com/about
I should create an aggregator aggregator
A few more:
- https://powrss.com/
- https://blogroll.org/
- https://ooh.directory/
This is awesome. I find myself seeking out blogs nowadays as many of the best forums have died out and reddit has dropped in quality significantly.
I typically use marginalia and wiby to make finding posts from blogs easier, but I like the idea of providing hn style mechanics to blog posts, so many of which lack the ability to comment/discuss the material. At the same time, while I think this is a useful tool, I am a little weary of the aggregation and consolidation of the web.
Vaguely related, I did an extremely basic RSS feed combiner ages ago: https://hn-blogs.kronis.dev/ when there was that one post where people could share their blogs and many of those had RSS feeds.
That said, it got its list of feeds from the repo that someone made which hasn't been updated in a few years, so even if new blog content gets pulled, the list of blogs doesn't change. Oh well, wasn't a super serious project.
Sweet! Glad to see so many active personal blogs. We should push to bring back RSS feeds somehow. I really miss that era.
Very cool!
We have something similar — asort of “planet” — for personal blogs in Brazil. It's open source, maybe it can be useful for someone: https://github.com/manualdousuario/lerama
Our instance: https://lerama.pcdomanual.com
Very cool!! It's actually full of blogs! I've seen lots of claims for this kind of thing, glad to see you followed through!
Awesome idea. You should launch this on Buildfeed.co.
Love this! Was the UI done with Claude or some LLM? Not a critique, just curious because the designs give off that vibe to me.
> If you don't find your blog, please add them.
> RSS / Atom Feed URL *
I really need to implement an RSS/Atom feed in my static site generator, the lack of this feature is really starting to hurt. I can probably get Claude to help me with this.
I vibe coded RSS feed for my static site generator a few months ago: https://github.com/dllu/dllup-rs/blob/main/src/main.rs#L850
and was pleasantly surprised to see my blog was already on this website!
I see the footer, then it disappears - (next scroll kicks in) - see foot, disappears, repeat.. (desktop, firefox)
It's time we bring back webrings and optional auto-check for recip links - with options to check for nofollow and do a thing or not.
Webring code anyone can self host - have notification and approval and accept nofollow links as okay by default should work fine.
Thinking of them getting bigger, might need to give surfers and option to sort by tags / categories / newest / oldest. have option for website owner to prioritize or highlight a few as first seen each month..
I made something similar, but for Linux news and information! thelinuxreport.com :D
No voting? How is it curated?
"All submissions are manually reviewed before appearing in the directory."
it's like the late 90s early 2000s again
cool stuff. have already found and bookmarked a few interesting sites just going through the list.
submitted my own blog there as well. it is cool seeing human-curated directories coming back (not that they truly left, but i've been seeing more and more over the last few years around the 'indie web')
i do a little something like this on my own site, but it is just a simple directory of sites that i like listed by category on a single page.
I love this. THANK YOU.
I love the idea of such frontpages. There should be one for small scale b2c apps as well to help discovery