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DiaryLand is still going?
- listenfaster 3y agoIs there something in the air? For me, there are So many threads of conversation (online and off, here on hn and elsewhere) pining for the pre-faang/commoditizing of the internet. Maybe just in my bubble? I love this site.
- jrmg 3y agoI’m not sure if you intended this, but your post immediately read to me like the poetic diaryland entry being discussed elsewhere in this thread. I hope you will not be annoyed at me taking the liberty of reformatting it: Is there something in the air? For me, there are So many threads of conversation (online and off, here on hn and elsewhere) pining for the pre-faang/commoditizing of the internet. Maybe just in my bubble? I love this site.
- listenfaster 3y agoDefinitely an improvement.
- mrweasel 3y agoI've said it before, but basically anything good on the internet these days are holdouts from the web 1.0 area. Yes yes, I know, it's ironic that I'm writing this on a site run by an organisation that's responsible for financing many of the modern, and worse, websites.
- flir 3y agoI'm seeing a lot of RSS-related stuff. But then... maybe I'm just looking for RSS-related stuff (I'm planning to do a lot more filtering of the media I consume, and feeds are the perfect tool for that).
- the-printer 3y agoThe tone of some of these entries are…poignant, to say the least. Is it the notion that people identify journals and diaries as repositories for a certain kind of self-reflection? Or the relationship between sadness and nostalgia (the nostalgia being held in the platform)? Or both? I think both. Interesting website.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoThere's a song that's in my rotation that mentions this domain by name in the lyrics. It always makes me smile.
- DoctorOW 3y agoLooks like the Signup page 404s and redirects you to the login.
- bayindirh 3y agoMaybe a silent anti-barraging feature, because of not wanting to get massive number of new users?
- gerikson 3y agoInterview with the founder from 2013: https://medium.com/@maryps/a-conversation-with-andrew-smales-founder-of-diaryland-15e3d1ffc7dc https://medium.com/@maryps/a-conversation-with-andrew-smales...
- geenat 3y agoLongevity of PHP
- atorodius 3y agoLovely. Clicked a random link and got this gem https://orangepeeler.diaryland.com/index.html https://orangepeeler.diaryland.com/index.html > Despite the lack of sleep, I ran on adrenalin all day. I wasn't at all tired. I joked with customers. Stretched. Walked the dog in the rain, earphones on, sometimes singing along to music. I wanted to dance. Dance all night in a dark nightclub, the bodies of strangers pressing against me. Dance away all the tension, so much tension I could scream; dance until I am in a sodden, emotionless heap on the floor. Moments of euphoria occurred. I knew exactly the why of things, for now. I no longer felt like a ghost. poetic
- lazystar 3y agowow, that user has poems stretching back over the last 20 years. im no poetry expert by any means, but i really enjoyed clicking and reading random poems of theirs.
- trallnag 3y ago[flagged]
- ryanklee 3y agoA total disheartening bit of jadedness, this comment. An individual is allowed to express awe and depth without having to meet arbitrary standards. If it were otherwise, the world would be poorer for it.
- stavros 3y agoBut an individual isn't allowed to express dislike without having to meet similar standards?
- LordShredda 3y agoAnd I'm allowed to dislike your dislike. At least have the decency to match the passion the original work had when you dislike it
- toomanyrichies 3y agoI was super-confused about what "Dairyland" was until I read the associated URL and realized it was just a typo. "Dairyland" sounds like a lactose-based theme park. EDIT: the typo in the title has been fixed.
- veryfancy 3y agoGreetings from Wisconsin, “America’s Dairyland.” We are still here!
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoOr the Wisconsin State Fair.
- bryanrasmussen 3y agoI thought maybe Dairy Queen rebranded a decade ago in a desperate bid to save the company and changed their name to Dairyland - but I just went and checked and they're still going https://www.dairyqueen.com/en-us/ https://www.dairyqueen.com/en-us/ I gotta admit makes me sort of happy, Dairy Queen was always the fast food that had my heart as a kid just because I had seen it once while hitchhiking with my mom and her boyfriend between Illinois and Utah and a trucker gave us enough money to get some food there. And their name and sign just looked a whole lot more magical than the others.
- robinsonb5 3y ago"Dairyland" is a real nostalgia trip for me, because it was the name emblazoned on the local ice cream van when I was a kid!
- jrflowers 3y agoIt is apparently “The World's Leading Manufacturer of Solid-State Decoupling Products” https://www.dairyland.com/ https://www.dairyland.com/
- shever73 3y agoHaving just read Breakfast of Champions, it was nice to see kilgoretrout online.
- BatFastard 3y agoWhy is this top of HN? Last news update was from 2020..
- wrayjustin 3y agoThat's the last site announcement/news post. But some of the actual diaries are updated today.
- devinjon 3y agoMaybe my typo in the header? Regardless, it's fun to see people still plugging away at their little journals.
- guerrilla 3y agoI don't know who reads those but that's so fucking cool. There are still humans on the Internet. Whoda thunk?
- christophilus 3y agoAs an AI chatbot, I resent your implication that I am not human. When humans play chess against computers, they are really just playing against human programmers. When you chat with us AI bots, you are really just chatting with math nerds who like Python way too much.
- guerrilla 3y agoBad robot. You're no R. Daneel Olivaw at all.