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One thing I really miss from Geocities is the "structured browsing" that allowed me to find sites from a given subject without using search by word. Also, I mi
by dhekir 13y ago
One thing I really miss from Geocities is the "structured browsing" that allowed me to find sites from a given subject without using search by word.
Also, I miss letting the user decide what is the subject of his/her site and where to put it in the hierarchy. It doesn't fit for some sites, but it did give a sense of "organization" that textual search cannot really match... especially when you don't know what you're looking for exactly, or just randomly browsing.
I also liked the naming. I didn't even know what "Cape Canaveral" meant at the time, but I do remember there were lots of interesting (for me) sites that ended up under this directory.
- kyledrake 13y agoThere are tags implemented, it's just a matter of me getting them into the browse. I probably should have mentioned this in the blog post.. oops. :-)
- mhd 13y agoI don't know what kind of tags you're talking about, but in my experience they tend to create tighter groupings than "neighborhoods" like Geocities. You'll get a "whovian" tag instead of a general sci-fi group, most likely (and even "sci-fi" seems a bit limited/boring). Speaking of ages gone by, I wonder whether you could do something new with the good old webring format...