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Welcome to url.town, population 465
- pavel_lishin 1y agoNeat - I wish it showed how many entries there are for each category. I was disappointed to see a Parenting category, with nothing in it.
- whoomp12342 1y agothat hits deep
- actinium226 1y agoSadly it's the same for Sci-Fi art. I had a link to submit, but you need to sign up and it's $20. Fair enough if they want to set some minimum barrier for the site to filter out suggestions from every Tom, Dick, and Harry (and Jane?), but I don't feel so investing in this to give them $20 to provide a suggestion.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoI clicked it too and was similarly disappointed. If you don't mind pasting it here I'd love to check it out and add it to my web index.
- actinium226 1y agoHehe, we'll make our own url.town, with sci-fi art, and hookers! https://www.simonstalenhag.se/ https://www.simonstalenhag.se/ ^ The link is for the sci-fi art, not the hookers.
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- cosmicgadget 1y agoAwesome work!
- actinium226 1y agoIf you like that, wait till you see the hookers! Lol, just kidding, that link is someone whose talent greatly exceeds my own.
- cindyllm 1y ago[dead]
- dredmorbius 1y agoClearly, if you want descendent nodes, you'll be looking for the "Child" or "Leafnode" category ;-)
- ascorbic 1y agoThis, in the family > activities category, looks excellent though: https://offline.kids https://offline.kids
- fredoliveira 1y agoIt does! Thanks for linking this - a quick browse revealed a few things my kid will be into.
- JdeBP 1y agoNow its own Hacker News submission, with many concluding that it is entirely LLM-generated content and thus highly suspect for any kind of accuracy at all. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789192
- ascorbic 1y agoYes, I submitted it
- amiga386 1y agoRemember url.city? https://web.archive.org/web/20141122194515/https://dir.yahoo.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141122194515/https://dir.yahoo...
- anthk 1y agohttps://midnight.pub https://midnight.pub from https://nightfall.city https://nightfall.city it's cool too.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoKind of like the indieseek.xyz directory. Love to see it.
- Waraqa 1y agoWith the rise of these retro-looking websites, I feel it's possible again to start using a browser from the '90s. Someone should make a static-site social media platform for full compatibility.
- jdpage 1y agoNot so much. While a lot of these websites use classic approaches (handcrafted HTML/CSS, server-side includes, etc.) and aesthetics, the actual versions of those technologies used are often rather modern. For example, TFA looks like a page I'd have browsed in IE5 as a kid, but if you look at the markup, it's using HTML5 tags and Flexbox (which became a W3C WR in 2017), while a period site would have used an HTML table to get the same effect. Of course, you wouldn't want to do it that way nowadays, because it wouldn't be responsive or mobile-friendly. (I don't think this detracts from such sites, to be clear; they're adopting new technologies where they provide practical benefits to the reader because many indieweb proponents are pushing it as a progressive, rather than reactionary, praxis.)
- xxr 1y ago> For example, TFA looks like a page I'd have browsed in IE5 as a kid, but if you look at the markup, it's using HTML5 tags and Flexbox (which became a W3C WR in 2017), while a period site would have used an HTML table to get the same effect. Are they going out of their way to recreate an aesthetic that was originally the easiest thing to create given the language specs of the past, or is there something about this look and feel that is so fundamental to the idea of making websites that basically anything that looks like any era or variety of HTML will converge on it?
- nkrisc 1y agoI think it’s the former. Many of these retro layouts are pretty terrible. They existed because they were the best at the time, but using modern HTML features to recreate bad layouts from the last is just missing the point completely.
- veqq 1y agoLogins are built on https://home.omg.lol/ https://home.omg.lol/ which is an amazing looking community!
- BobbyTables2 1y agoJust needs a Web Ring (:->
- poink 1y agoThis is cute, but I absolutely do not care about buying a omg.lol URL for $20/yr, and I'm not trying to be a hater because the concept is fine, but anybody who falls into this same boat should know this is explicitly "not for them"
- deadbabe 1y agoJust to be clear, $20/year is roughly one Starbucks drink per fiscal quarter.
- crossroadsguy 1y agoThis :D X is just one cappuccino, Y is just 3.5 bagels, Z costs not more than a pint, A costs almost as much as a nice meal … and so on. God's sake! :)
- poink 1y agoAre you suggesting the market for omg.lol URLs intersects with the people who like to buy burnt coffee?
- deadbabe 1y agoI only find it curious that there is just no limit to how cheap people on hackernews can be, despite being supposedly higher income earners. Even if it was $10/year, people would still cry foul.
- poink 1y agoI don't think pointing out "this is a web directory full of links submitted by people willing to spend $20/yr" is being cheap, per se, the same way I don't think paying to be "verified" on Twitter means your content is worth paying attention to There was a time where "willing to pay for access" was a decent spam control mechanism, but that was long ago
- dmje 1y agoAgree. Recently I’ve noticed the complaints with paying for Kagi search [0]. HN loves to moan about how bad Google is but paying $10 ($5 if you want a tiny plan) is apparently too much for something as critical as search? As you say, those coffees seem to keep on selling… [0] https://kagi.com/pricing https://kagi.com/pricing
- dredmorbius 1y agoHaving studied, and attempted to build, a few taxonomies / information hierarchies myself (a fraught endeavour, perhaps information is not in fact hierarchical? (Blasphemy!!!)), I'm wondering how stable the present organisational schema will prove, and how future migrations might be handled. (Whether for this or comparable projects.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_classification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_classification>
- zkmon 1y agoYes, the seeming hierarchy in information is bit shallow. Yahoo, Altavista and others tried this and it became unmanageable soon. Google realized that keywords and page-raking is the way to go. I think keywords are sort of same as a dimensions in multi-dimensional embeddings. Information, is basically is about relating something to other known things. A closer relation is being interpreted as location proximity in a taxonomy space.
- cyberge99 1y agoI think something similar was tried on everything2.com back in the day (2000ish).
- dredmorbius 1y agoKeywords also have their limitations. The US Library of Congress is an interesting case study to my mind. The original classification scheme came from Thomas Jefferson's private library (he donated the collection to the US Government after the original Library of Congress was burned in 1812. The classification has been made more detailed (though so far as I know the original 20 alphabetic top-level classes remain as Jefferson established them), and there's been considerable re-adjustment, as knowledge, mores, and the world around us have changed. The classification has its warts, but it's also very much a living process, something I feel is greatly underappreciated. At the same time, the Library also has its equivalent of keywords, the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Whilst a book or work will have one and only one Classification assigned to it (the Classification serving essentially as an index and retrieval key), there may be multiple Subject Headings given (though typically only a few, say 3--6 for a given work). These are used to cross-reference works within the subject index. The Subject Headings themselves date to 1898, and there is in fact an article on the ... er ... subject, "The LCSH Century: A Brief History of the Library of Congress Subject Headings, and Introduction to the Centennial Essays" (2009), I'm just learning as I write this comment: <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J104v29n01_01 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J104v29n01_01>
- dcreater 1y agoWhat's the selection criteria for being listed on the directory?
- sussmannbaka 1y agoSomeone wants to add it enough to click the button that adds the site. Sometimes you need to REALLY want to add it because no category is applicable so you also click the button to add the category.
- chromehearts 1y agoI'm not sure either; I know a couple of websites which fit perfectly
- toyg 1y agoThe fact that it already has categories for most hobbies but absolutely nothing for cars, motorbikes, or any mechanical engineering-related topic, makes me sad. I know it's not their fault - young people simply don't care anymore.
- bubblyworld 1y agoGo make an account and add your own links =)
- rsynnott 1y ago> most hobbies ... Possibly I'm missing something, but currently it has four categories under "Hobbies"; folklore, Pokemon, travel and yarn craft. Are you suggesting that if someone added "car stuff", that would be, well, basically complete, the big five hobbies represented? It's clearly extremely new and has almost no content as yet.
- AndrewSwift 1y agoCool, but I'd like us to get past the idea that a site has to use Times font to be retro. Times is really not adapted for the web and is particularly bad on low-resolution screens. How many computer terminals used Times for anything but Word processing? Verdana was released in 1996 — is that too recent?
- yreg 1y agoVerdana is sans serif, so not a replacement for Times New Roman. Also, the website styles don't specify font-family at all, so you are complaining about your own browser defaults.
- exodust 1y agoI think they meant that Verdana is a nice replacement for Times if you care about readability and presentation. Good pickup on the font being the default browser choice, I didn't notice that!
- yreg 1y ago> I think they meant that Verdana is a nice replacement for Times if you care about readability and presentation. But that's not true at all! Maybe the point was that web should use sans-serif instead of serif, but that statement (and I hope I'm not making a straw man here) is as a blanket invalid as well (in my opinion, ofc).
- trinix912 1y agoIn the true spirit of the old web, you can adjust the default font in your browser's preferences to any font you prefer and the page respects it, as it doesn't specify what font to use at all.
- rsynnott 1y agoArgh, Yahoo is happening again! (For the youth, this is basically what Yahoo was, originally; it was _ten years_ after Yahoo started before it had its own crawler-based search engine, though it did use various third parties after the first few years.)
- JKCalhoun 1y agoIt's like people are missing that first decade. (I recall too that when Yahoo did add their own web crawler, all web devs did was add "Pamela Anderson" a thousand times in as meta tags in order to get their pages ranked higher. Early SEO.)
- pogue 1y agoThis reminds me more of the Open Directory Project (Dmoz.org), but I welcome it! 2010 archive of dmoz: https://web.archive.org/web/20100227212554/http://www.dmoz.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100227212554/http://www.dmoz.o...
- blenderob 1y agoNice website. But do I need to buy a omg.lol subdomain before I can contribute links here? Why is it an omg.lol subdomain? I'm happy to buy a new domain, but not so happy about buying a subdomain. I'm not sure why I'd be paying omg.lol to contribute links to url.town? What's the connection between the two?
- JKCalhoun 1y agoYeah, so $20 to add a URL to url.town. Anyone with an account already that wants to take requests for URLs to add? (Hey, charge $1 a request and you should be able to break even on your $20 domain purchase before the day is up.)
- bovermyer 1y agoI'm a member of omg.lol, and thus able to curate links for this directory. I'll take requests, but I don't guarantee I'll add just anything.
- archerx 1y agoI just can’t stand reading serif fonts on a screen. The site is not compelling enough to power through the torture the font induces.
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- thefaux 1y agoPretty on the nose that the only sports category is road cycling.