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It’s not really possible to gate keep. What are you going to do? Forbid people from publishing things you think are dumb? What this author and anyone who agree
by api 11mo ago
It’s not really possible to gate keep. What are you going to do? Forbid people from publishing things you think are dumb?
What this author and anyone who agrees could do is create curated directories. There’s already some of these in the form of the “awesome ____” lists.
I’ve been thinking for years that the time might be right to resurrect a curated directory site modeled after the old school Yahoo. Back then the advent of good search quickly rendered that obsolete, but today we’ve come full circle and there’s a need for signal to be plucked out of the noise.
- andy99 11mo agoI consider “awesome” lists to be part of the slop
- api 11mo agoHow does someone find good projects then?
- tptacek 11mo agoRemember Sweetcode? https://web.archive.org/web/20030207212639/http://www.sweetcode.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20030207212639/http://www.sweetc...
- api 11mo agoYup, and Freshmeat which was affiliated with Slashdot. There was an Open Directory Yahoo competitor too but it never really went anywhere. Search took over until search started to be gamed to death. The golden age of search — immediately post Google and pre SEO spam — was pretty good.