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I hope we are going to see an old web resurgence in the coming years and personal blogs will once again populate the hn frontage. If we can't keep the old web,

I hope we are going to see an old web resurgence in the coming years and personal blogs will once again populate the hn frontage. If we can't keep the old web, nobody can. We are a niche, a tech niche, but we have to stop visiting medium or other centralized services. Crop tops are everywhere when nobody expected then 30 years later after all.

dbrereton 6y ago
Yeah I think there is a rise in personal blogs/websites and we'll be seeing more of it. It's just hard to discover right now.
Minor49er 6y ago
Neocities has been doing a great job at making it easy to keep the spirit of the old web alive. They allow anyone to make whatever kind of site they want, plus make it easy to discover active sites. Try out their search functionality. They give screenshots of every page so you can find the more visually interesting or content-filled ones right away
ChrisArchitect 6y ago
what do you see on the frontpage? It's more than half random domains and posts by random people about a myriad of topics, news from individual sites (not corporate news centers), and github pages of tools which might as well be 'personal' sites.... and many of the new submissions to the site that get upvoted daily are like articles on this and that publishing sites, which are the same thing just more uniformly designed/less 'personal' looking. Still personal content.
jrnichols 6y ago
I agree and hope this trend continues. I think the more lightweight, self-hosted, decentralized sources of information we have, (blogs/etc) the better. I miss the old days of example.com/~user I am also happy to see less Medium and way way less Facebook. I believe that not everything on the internet has to exist to generate revenue. I appreciated the "old web" where users put up information because they wanted to, not because their first goal was money.
- approxim8ion 6y ago
  Definitely agree. I've got a lot more value from these kind of sites recently and I enjoy going through them more.
approxim8ion 6y ago
I almost exclusively hunt for personal blogs on the new page nowadays. I really enjoy seeing what people write and what approaches they take to designing their blogs.
- bobbydreamer 6y ago
  Well in that case if you have time, you can check mine https://bobbydreamer.com/how-i-made-this-site https://bobbydreamer.com/how-i-made-this-site
  - approxim8ion 6y ago
    Sorry, this thread got lost in my feed. Thanks for linking, it looks great! Subscribed via RSS.

dbrereton 6y ago

Yeah I think there is a rise in personal blogs/websites and we'll be seeing more of it. It's just hard to discover right now.

Minor49er 6y ago

Neocities has been doing a great job at making it easy to keep the spirit of the old web alive. They allow anyone to make whatever kind of site they want, plus make it easy to discover active sites. Try out their search functionality. They give screenshots of every page so you can find the more visually interesting or content-filled ones right away

ChrisArchitect 6y ago

what do you see on the frontpage? It's more than half random domains and posts by random people about a myriad of topics, news from individual sites (not corporate news centers), and github pages of tools which might as well be 'personal' sites.... and many of the new submissions to the site that get upvoted daily are like articles on this and that publishing sites, which are the same thing just more uniformly designed/less 'personal' looking. Still personal content.

jrnichols 6y ago

I agree and hope this trend continues. I think the more lightweight, self-hosted, decentralized sources of information we have, (blogs/etc) the better. I miss the old days of example.com/~user I am also happy to see less Medium and way way less Facebook. I believe that not everything on the internet has to exist to generate revenue. I appreciated the "old web" where users put up information because they wanted to, not because their first goal was money.

approxim8ion 6y ago
Definitely agree. I've got a lot more value from these kind of sites recently and I enjoy going through them more.

approxim8ion 6y ago

I almost exclusively hunt for personal blogs on the new page nowadays. I really enjoy seeing what people write and what approaches they take to designing their blogs.

bobbydreamer 6y ago
Well in that case if you have time, you can check mine https://bobbydreamer.com/how-i-made-this-site https://bobbydreamer.com/how-i-made-this-site
- approxim8ion 6y ago
  Sorry, this thread got lost in my feed. Thanks for linking, it looks great! Subscribed via RSS.