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Can we please have more sites like this on the internet.

hombre_fatal 8y ago
It's trending the other way. We're left depending on the few people who have the time/energy/money to produce labors of love and charities like this. Beyond that, we're left with centralized superplatforms.
- princekolt 8y ago
  At least the rail companies are starting to care for their websites nowadays, at least in Europe. In Spain I've heard the running insult-joke when some other fellow programmer will ask you about your experience only to get back to you saying "nah... I know you. You're the guy who made the Renfe website" (Renfe is the Spanish state rail company, and their website is... not great.)
- baxtr 8y ago
  I have the same feeling. But, my guess it that it’s not that those sites don’t exist. It’s more about finding these gems. Content-free sales pages have been search engine optimized the last years. So the SERPs are full of commercial shit. We need better exploration possibilities. That’s one of the reasons I love HN.
  - DoctorOetker 8y ago
    It doesn't index the whole internet, but google scholar often reminds me of how the internet felt a decade and a half ago...
  - koboll 8y ago
    To be fair, based on my searches, "Get from x to y by train"-type searches tend to feature this site on the first page of results -- that's how I found it originally. So something in the Google algorithm clearly values this type of content-rich, no-frills site.
    - baxtr 8y ago
      You’re right, it’s not completely useless yet
ajmurmann 8y ago
I kinda want one of these directory websites you could find in the early 2000s that were just collections of websites the author liked. I want a page like that just filled with links to pushed like this. projectrho.com comes to mind as another page I would want to see liked there.
- dylan604 8y ago
  Rather than a website with one person tasked with maintaining it, what about a git site where people can do a pull request for updates?
  - pseudalopex 8y ago
    "awesome" lists are basically this. They often end up with not enough curation.
scarejunba 8y ago
Be the change you want to see.

It's trending the other way. We're left depending on the few people who have the time/energy/money to produce labors of love and charities like this. Beyond that, we're left with centralized superplatforms.

princekolt 8y ago
At least the rail companies are starting to care for their websites nowadays, at least in Europe. In Spain I've heard the running insult-joke when some other fellow programmer will ask you about your experience only to get back to you saying "nah... I know you. You're the guy who made the Renfe website" (Renfe is the Spanish state rail company, and their website is... not great.)
baxtr 8y ago
I have the same feeling. But, my guess it that it’s not that those sites don’t exist. It’s more about finding these gems. Content-free sales pages have been search engine optimized the last years. So the SERPs are full of commercial shit. We need better exploration possibilities. That’s one of the reasons I love HN.
- DoctorOetker 8y ago
  It doesn't index the whole internet, but google scholar often reminds me of how the internet felt a decade and a half ago...
- koboll 8y ago
  To be fair, based on my searches, "Get from x to y by train"-type searches tend to feature this site on the first page of results -- that's how I found it originally. So something in the Google algorithm clearly values this type of content-rich, no-frills site.
  - baxtr 8y ago
    You’re right, it’s not completely useless yet

ajmurmann 8y ago

I kinda want one of these directory websites you could find in the early 2000s that were just collections of websites the author liked. I want a page like that just filled with links to pushed like this. projectrho.com comes to mind as another page I would want to see liked there.

dylan604 8y ago
Rather than a website with one person tasked with maintaining it, what about a git site where people can do a pull request for updates?
- pseudalopex 8y ago
  "awesome" lists are basically this. They often end up with not enough curation.

scarejunba 8y ago

Be the change you want to see.