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A collection of 2,299 blogs about every topic
- some_furry 2y agohttps://ooh.directory/search/?q=furry https://ooh.directory/search/?q=furry Ah damn, I'm the only one so far?
- hifikuno 2y agoSomeone's gotta be first. You're paving the way for others!
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- theendisney4 2y agoI would love an opml with everything.
- rhelz 2y agoFascinating. Search engines are so bad, that we are going back to the pre-search engine era of pages of hand-curated links.
- bigtunacan 2y agoAt this point it may be necessary. All of the search engines are essentially the same now and all you can find are mostly a handful of curated e-commerce sites. The "wide" part of the web has all but disappeared.
- riffraff 2y agoThis is true for stuff that can be sold, but for example my personal blog has most search traffic going to a page about a cartoon theme song. People still rely on search engines for a bunch of things beyond "best phone 2024".
- nativeit 2y agoThings like "best phone 2024 reddit". J/k, I don't disagree.
- ekianjo 2y agowith the explosion of AI generated content to meet SEO criteria that may be the only way to have proper access to real content
- yesbut 2y agoGuess they aren't a fan of fuzz pedals: https://ooh.directory/search/?q=big+muff https://ooh.directory/search/?q=big+muff
- zakhar 2y agoPrevious discussion (Nov 2022): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33719983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33719983
- nativeit 2y agoThis reminds of the World Wide Web circa 1993. Yahoo was a kind of categorized link directory.
- newzisforsukas 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory https://web.archive.org/web/20141122194515/https://dir.yahoo.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141122194515/https://dir.yahoo...
- gofreddygo 2y agoI never really used anything pre-google so I dont have enough context. The yahoo directory page, i found, is very useful for discovery. I spent a good amount of time digging into sub-directories of recent interest for example [0] and found the limited number of links very very refreshing and of high quality. Links work, no ads, and i skipped what i did not think useful without fatigue. 10 mins later, i learned something new. Google search for the same topic lends 2 screen fulls of ads and a popup asking for permission for my location and then this[1] garbage. 10 mins later, I had just spent time avoiding ads and paid content slop. A very basic example of why "google it" isn't a great tool for discoverability any more. Simpler tools, better outcomes. A modern looking, but fundamentally same concept of a categorized, curated directory could very well be an improvement over the current state of affairs. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20141122222807/https://dir.yahoo.com/education/theory_and_methods/homeschooling/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141122222807/https://dir.yahoo... [1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=homeschooling https://www.google.com/search?q=homeschooling
- nativeit 2y agoMany thanks for this other cheek. I had no idea they maintained that until 2014!
- beardyw 2y agoYes, exactly what I thought.
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- manuelmoreale 2y agoSuch a great resource.It’s incredibly valuable for me personally since I’m always hunting for new blogs and new people to interview for my series. I also interviewed Phil, the creator of ooh back in February: https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-phil-gyford https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-phil-gyford
- smetj 2y agoAbsolutely awesome ... an oasis in a hostile desert. We needs more webrings and curated link portals (which this essentially is) ... Thank you devs!
- penguin_booze 2y agoHow do people make use of such an aggregator? Do people checkout blogs individually and subscribe to feeds to individual blogs or interest? The sheer number of the collection dissuades me. I'm wondering, instead, if it'd be useful for the aggregator to offer an aggregated feed itself, but that might be too rand om a feed and subjects!