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Time is a flat circle, eh? But all kidding aside, web directories should be much more powerful now than in the 90s. Websites have RSS, and directory websites s
by rchaud 4y ago
Time is a flat circle, eh?
But all kidding aside, web directories should be much more powerful now than in the 90s. Websites have RSS, and directory websites should be able to automatically monitor things like uptime, and leverage RSS to preview a site's most recent post.
I've considered maintaining my own directory on my personal website (a one-way webring if you will), but always stopped because the sites I linked to either died, or were acquired and became something very different.
- nijave 4y agoWell, we have awesome-* in GitHub now. Unfortunately RSS seems to still be hit-or-miss.
- mypetocean 4y agoDo you mind clarifying what you're referring to?
- mitchdoogle 4y agohttps://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
- Semaphor 4y agoThe issue is curation. Many awesome-* lists are just the kitchen sink, with no regard given to quality or stability.
- Minor49er 4y agoRegarding the lifetime of a site, it might be possible to submit requests to the Internet Archive or similar service whenever a site is added to a directory or a new post is found on it. That way too, it would be easier to see when a site is no longer active or when it turned into something else. Then, when it's deactivated, the web directory could just point to the archive first
- mrtksn 4y ago>Time is a flat circle, eh? I prefer Mark Twain's “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” It's pretty obvious that we have come to a stagnant period of online content and there's a desire to move past the glamour of the Instagram and political fights on Twitter and optimised for ad revenue videos on Youtube but I don't think that the personal websites are coming back. Those were cool because only specific type of people were able to build websites, then the code free services for sharing content came along and everybody got online presence but because the medium is the message we are kind of getting tired of the message. There seems to be a search for a new medium. The time for the next verse feels around the corner but I don't think we have found it just yet!
- pvg 4y agoI prefer Mark Twain's That has its own history https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/
- kachnuv_ocasek 4y agoI prefer Slavoj Žižek’s “first time as a tragedy, second as a farce”.
- notlukesky 4y agoThat was Karl Marx: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/karl_marx_382655 https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/karl_marx_382655
- taneq 4y agoMaybe the first time. ;)
- grey-area 4y agoIn a fun essay named The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, though apparently lifted by Marx from a letter to him by Engels: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Louis_Bonaparte https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_L... So really it was Engels.
- r0fl 4y agoAre there any scripts or wordpress plugins that can build out much better directories like you describe?
- mitchdoogle 4y agoWe have lots of curated lists popping up. Pretty soon someone will make a search engine to search all the lists.
- bckr 4y agoA searchable list of lists, or SLL, you might say?
- d_cyper 4y agoGot any examples? Would be interesting to see what's out there...
- nine_k 4y agoWhy, a curated list of curated lists, of course. I wonder how soon people will start to collaboratively train ML models for curation, by their acts if curation, much like spam filters are trained today.