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StumbleUpon2? > StumbleUpon was a website, browser extension, toolbar, and mobile app with a "Stumble!" button that, when pushed, opened a semi-random website

StumbleUpon2? > StumbleUpon was a website, browser extension, toolbar, and mobile app with a "Stumble!" button that, when pushed, opened a semi-random website or video that matched the user's interests, similar to a random web search engine.[1] Users were able to filter results by type of content and were able to discuss such webpages via virtual communities and to rate such webpages via like buttons. StumbleUpon was shut down in June 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon

SketchySeaBeast 1y ago
I really loved StumbleUpon, but I fear reviving it would lead to nothing but inorganic traffic and malware.
- kedean 1y ago
  I also fear that the centralization of the web to a handful of websites has made a revival impossible. If 80% of your stumbles are just reddit posts or imgur links, whats the point?
  - Izkata 1y ago
    That you can exclude them? People seem to have forgotten StumbleUpon had a pretty decent configuration page where you had to manually select what topics you were interested in, and that submitting new pages wasn't as simple as just submitting the URL. On top of that, I'm pretty sure I remember a "block this domain" option if you clicked the arrow next to the thumbs down: https://i.sstatic.net/VLS4c.png https://i.sstatic.net/VLS4c.png
- Cthulhu_ 1y ago
  It'd only work today if it was hand-curated and every submission continuously checked in case the underlying page was altered. That said, it would work. Whether it would be financially viable is another matter, but going for profitability is ruining a lot of fun.
epiccoleman 1y ago
I loved StumbleUpon but I have this odd feeling that it was sort of the first augur in my life for what algorithmic feeds would do to my attention span. But it really was a cool thing, in those last days of the pre-social media web, to find all those neat little passion project sites.

SketchySeaBeast 1y ago

I really loved StumbleUpon, but I fear reviving it would lead to nothing but inorganic traffic and malware.

kedean 1y ago
I also fear that the centralization of the web to a handful of websites has made a revival impossible. If 80% of your stumbles are just reddit posts or imgur links, whats the point?
- Izkata 1y ago
  That you can exclude them? People seem to have forgotten StumbleUpon had a pretty decent configuration page where you had to manually select what topics you were interested in, and that submitting new pages wasn't as simple as just submitting the URL. On top of that, I'm pretty sure I remember a "block this domain" option if you clicked the arrow next to the thumbs down: https://i.sstatic.net/VLS4c.png https://i.sstatic.net/VLS4c.png
Cthulhu_ 1y ago
It'd only work today if it was hand-curated and every submission continuously checked in case the underlying page was altered. That said, it would work. Whether it would be financially viable is another matter, but going for profitability is ruining a lot of fun.

epiccoleman 1y ago

I loved StumbleUpon but I have this odd feeling that it was sort of the first augur in my life for what algorithmic feeds would do to my attention span. But it really was a cool thing, in those last days of the pre-social media web, to find all those neat little passion project sites.