4 ms·
Nice, I often find myself missing the weird web of my youth. I hope this takes off. I think the ring needs a bit of curation though, of the few sites that are o
by progre 6y ago
Nice, I often find myself missing the weird web of my youth. I hope this takes off. I think the ring needs a bit of curation though, of the few sites that are on it now the finalkey one seem to be... not relevant? Or at least unexpected. While cool and all this seems like a plain old sales site exept the thing sold is not made anymore. The site itself also lacks the ring widget.
- Finnucane 6y agoThe "weird old web" was that way in part because there wasn't much in the way of curation. Occasionally encountering something unexpected was supposedly a good thing.
- progre 6y agoI remember webrings fondly because they introduced a minimal level of curation. If I'm on the Basic STAMP webring I don't want Tintin fancomics. That belongs on the Hergé webring.
- pjc50 6y agoThey were entirely curated - but by humans, rather than algorithms. So there was more room for idiosyncracy. People also tended to have "kitchen sink" websites with a bit of all their interests on.
- FalconSensei 6y agoI remember when I used StumbleUpon to discover random things. That was cool
- chrisco255 6y agoYeah, that was the whole idea behind the "surfing" metaphor. Nobody surfs anymore, they just get an endless feed of algorithmic intellectual junk food.
- fossuser 6y agoIn case you missed it there’s a r/hnblogs subreddit that tries to make it easier for some of the interesting non-commerical content within the community to be surfaced. Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/ https://www.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/ Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23287286 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23287286 It's an ongoing experiment, but it's been going well so far and there have been a lot of interesting posts. It's mostly people from HN and the submissions are restricted to (your own) personal blog. I like the idea of web rings, but for me having a community where people can discuss the posts is a key thing that keeps me coming back to look for more.
- progre 6y agoNice, and I agree, I'm definately guilty of going to the comments before I read the actual post. This might get me back to reddit maybe. But I also think that webrings actually could serve as a mechanism to "aggregate" more timeless info that don't fit in the blog format. Like collections of legacy manuals and binaries, the history of army radio equipment, things like that.
- dusted 6y agoYou are right, I need to add the widget to finalkey, to be honest, I never sold many of them, but I provide a lot of support for people still building them in 2020, and I think more people should use non-cloud hardware password managers! :P