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Pity it costs money to submit sites，but I'm glad projects like this exist
by tomcooks 6y ago
Pity it costs money to submit sites，but I'm glad projects like this exist
- oneeyedpigeon 6y agoI can't imagine the fee causes any kind of practical problem, unless someone doesn't have a credit/debit card — it IS a shame it doesn't support any other payment means. I'm currently earning less than I'm paying out, and even I was happy to pay the dollar! It makes the site that much more valuable that it isn't overwhelmed by spam.
- tomcooks 6y agoI'm not judging, it's the author's choice. As I said, big up for the idea. Cheers.
- rchaud 6y agoI think a nominal fee is necessary to ward off bots. $1 to potentially get your site listed someplace where like-minded people might see it is not bad. The majority of these sites will never have enough content to rank in the top 10 for some query on search engines. And if you're not top 10, your site is essentially invisible. without some kind of old-school directory/webring structure that users can peruse, the odds of people continuing to make and share personal websites (that aren't shilling a course or product affiliate links) will dwindle to nothing. Just today, I discovered this site by pure chance: http://ratbehavior.org/PawPaintingRats.htm http://ratbehavior.org/PawPaintingRats.htm An extremely information-dense site about rats, hand-coded sometime in the '90s and last updated in 2012. A site like this to me is fascinating, but increasingly a very rare breed.