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I have a personal site I'm trying to pursue an old-style feel with, but it never qualifies by the heuristics people use, mainly because: * image-heavy (with ca

by kixiQu 5y ago

I have a personal site I'm trying to pursue an old-style feel with, but it never qualifies by the heuristics people use, mainly because: * image-heavy (with careful expressive intention! https://maya.land/latin/ https://maya.land/latin/) * I have javascript that, horror of horrors, is separated into multiple files (so I can manage it without a build step) for such malefic purposes as accessibility (https://maya.land/prefers-reduced-motion/ https://maya.land/prefers-reduced-motion/) and displaying the current moon phase But I think it's kind of good that there are different people pursuing different visions of The Good, even if many of us from different corners are all inept calling it nostalgia without better language to articulate our visions. This blogger is presenting cesspools like voat and raddle as a positive vision. Despite the fact that I think they're wrong about a lot, I think it's good that we're both out here on the web seeing and doing things differently. Maybe it takes some people to be obsessed with text-heavy content to act as a counterweight to FB misrepresenting video view counts. Maybe it takes some people like me going wild with GIFs to balance out Leo Babauta's web ethic (https://mnmlist.com/w/ https://mnmlist.com/w/), and both of us to balance out the standard wordpressy norms. ETA: I realized this looks like self-promo, so if you are suspicious of my using my own site as an example, https://sadgrl.online/ https://sadgrl.online/ isn't me but illustrates a lot of the same thing I'm trying for

marginalia_nu 5y ago
It's pretty hard to quantify quality due to the inherent category error in attempting to do so, so the measures are pretty much always going to be blunt and inexact. For what it's worth, while my marginalia /barely/ tolerates the technical aspects of maya.land, it's really teetering on the precipice of getting completely rejected, at the same time it ranked very highly in the search results due to its graph-adjacecy to the indieweb (it's domain #182 in that ranking).
- kixiQu 5y ago
  One thing that I really admire/respect about your search is that it's really good at capturing a particular kind of good web page. I wonder if there's more precise language than "quality" to express that: inexactness is only inevitable because we're trying to lump everything good into one bucket. Things I've considered improvements to my site are considered degradation by marginalia search's heuristics if we're trying to fit them all on a good-bad spectrum, but maybe that isn't fundamentally what we're asking a search engine to do -- even an opinionated one.

by kixiQu 5y ago

marginalia_nu 5y ago

It's pretty hard to quantify quality due to the inherent category error in attempting to do so, so the measures are pretty much always going to be blunt and inexact. For what it's worth, while my marginalia /barely/ tolerates the technical aspects of maya.land, it's really teetering on the precipice of getting completely rejected, at the same time it ranked very highly in the search results due to its graph-adjacecy to the indieweb (it's domain #182 in that ranking).

kixiQu 5y ago
One thing that I really admire/respect about your search is that it's really good at capturing a particular kind of good web page. I wonder if there's more precise language than "quality" to express that: inexactness is only inevitable because we're trying to lump everything good into one bucket. Things I've considered improvements to my site are considered degradation by marginalia search's heuristics if we're trying to fit them all on a good-bad spectrum, but maybe that isn't fundamentally what we're asking a search engine to do -- even an opinionated one.