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I want the slow web back Here you go: https://jakeseliger.com/ https://jakeseliger.com/. Scroll through and note the most interesting or useful venues. Then, t

I want the slow web back Here you go: https://jakeseliger.com/ https://jakeseliger.com/. Scroll through and note the most interesting or useful venues. Then, there are an array of RSS readers available; I've been using NetNewsWire but think that Feedly seems to be the most common. The "slow web" never left.

colinsane 4y ago
> The "slow web" never left. i wish we had usage stats that were as simple as FB or insta’s “monthly active users”. because i feel like there’s an ebb and flow to this. 15 years ago, blogs had comment sections, pingbacks, RSS. 10 years ago, SEO displaced the blog. 5 years ago, blogs grew again with Twitter announcements replacing the role of RSS. today, email lists are back in style and my friends ask me for RSS reader recommendations. then there’s the whole aspect of forums. most of the forums i used growing up are effectively dead. on the other hand, there are still new ones i run across monthly. it’s very difficult for me to separate my own trajectory from the overall “small web” trajectory: i just wish i knew of clean stats to illuminate the true state of things.
- agent008t 4y ago
  Exactly. Where are the users? What are the demographics? What places are seeing inflows/outflows of users? IRC, newsgroups, Discord, blogs, HN? Is it true that small message boards are as popular today as in 2005, it's just that the internet overall is bigger so they have a smaller share? Personally it absolutely does not feel true.
c12 4y ago
Ha, I found your website late last year and eventually started publishing lists of things I had found interesting in a per week, week in review: https://photogabble.co.uk/topic/week-in-review/ https://photogabble.co.uk/topic/week-in-review/ The "slow web" never left it just became more underground as the flashy algorithms paved over it in favour of turning visitors into media consumption addicts then into a product to sell to advertisers.

colinsane 4y ago

> The "slow web" never left. i wish we had usage stats that were as simple as FB or insta’s “monthly active users”. because i feel like there’s an ebb and flow to this. 15 years ago, blogs had comment sections, pingbacks, RSS. 10 years ago, SEO displaced the blog. 5 years ago, blogs grew again with Twitter announcements replacing the role of RSS. today, email lists are back in style and my friends ask me for RSS reader recommendations. then there’s the whole aspect of forums. most of the forums i used growing up are effectively dead. on the other hand, there are still new ones i run across monthly. it’s very difficult for me to separate my own trajectory from the overall “small web” trajectory: i just wish i knew of clean stats to illuminate the true state of things.

agent008t 4y ago
Exactly. Where are the users? What are the demographics? What places are seeing inflows/outflows of users? IRC, newsgroups, Discord, blogs, HN? Is it true that small message boards are as popular today as in 2005, it's just that the internet overall is bigger so they have a smaller share? Personally it absolutely does not feel true.

c12 4y ago

Ha, I found your website late last year and eventually started publishing lists of things I had found interesting in a per week, week in review: https://photogabble.co.uk/topic/week-in-review/ https://photogabble.co.uk/topic/week-in-review/ The "slow web" never left it just became more underground as the flashy algorithms paved over it in favour of turning visitors into media consumption addicts then into a product to sell to advertisers.