philgyford

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by philgyford 8mo ago
That's the kind of visitor I was talking about.
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by philgyford 8mo ago
I wouldn't intentionally add a site that is entirely paywalled, so let me know if you come across one!
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by philgyford 8mo ago
The value is that it's slightly easier to browse an alphabetical list than a random one (no, I don't have a citation for this). But, yes, it would be nice to have the option to change the sort order, as well as the current filteri
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by philgyford 8mo ago
I'd argue there is a difference between a blog and a newsletter, but that would take longer to discuss than I have right now. But you're right that the boundary between the two is extremely blurry. However, I'm guessing you
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by philgyford 8mo ago
In which case they're in the pool of (currently) 2,888 other suggested blogs that I've yet to evaluate.
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by philgyford 8mo ago
Give it a rest. The scope is in the FAQ. Blogs get added when I have time. As you can tell from the site, there are many, many suggestions and I’m not finding time to add many new blogs https://ooh.directory/about/chart
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by philgyford 8mo ago
Yeah, from a HN point of view I imagine most blogs are tech blogs. But for me, trying to curate a wider selection, tech blogs should be a very small minority. There are so many non-tech categories that I’m much more interested in populating
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by philgyford 8mo ago
It’s not “useless” it just depends on what it is a user is looking for. I decided that alphabetical as default makes most immediate sense to someone arriving at the site. “Last updated” could also look a bit random initially.
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by philgyford 8mo ago
Thanks for the kind words. The source is user suggestions and my own searching and browsing. I do sort of track outbound links, so that I can show which domains a blog links to most, which can sometimes give a sense of what the blog is abou
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by philgyford 8mo ago
That’s one problem with categorising blogs - they often shift focus over time, like Simon’s. I’ve added it to the AI category now - thanks for pointing that out!
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by philgyford 8mo ago
You do seem particularly offended or annoyed that some blogs you suggested have not yet appeared on the site. You can read the FAQ article to see the criteria for what’s accepted, and also reasons why suggested blogs haven’t yet appeared. U
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by philgyford 8mo ago
lol Even after the site being on HN last time, and getting hundreds and hundreds of tech blog suggestions as a result, none of them were about emacs. What are your favourite emacs blogs?
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by philgyford 8mo ago
There should be a feed of “Recently added blogs” linked right on the home page! Oh, hang on, what’s that I see on the home page?
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by philgyford 8mo ago
Hi, it’s my site. I’m sorry you don’t feel this hobby site run by one person doesn’t have a sufficiently transparent process. The process is: I add blogs that are interesting, recently-updated, etc, when I have time. And there’s only so muc
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by philgyford 2y ago
> I can't tell why the post ended up on HN Me neither.
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by philgyford 2y ago
Personally I'd always want "today", never "tomorrow". So now we have two extra buttons on the form. And perhaps the extensive user testing that gov.uk do would discover that for most people this added UI complexity
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by philgyford 3y ago
Ah, sorry for misunderstanding. I don't have any suggestions I'm afraid. I'm not yet short of blogs on many topics to add :)
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by philgyford 3y ago
I don't understand what you mean.
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by philgyford 3y ago
As the owner of the site, just to set everyone's expectations… There are currently more than 1,000 sites in the pool of submissions, and I'm probably approving 20-30 per week, depending on time available. Also, a large percentage
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by philgyford 4y ago
Only selected parts. There's a lot of stuff that isn't super interesting, or isn't super interesting in fragments, or just doesn't work as short fragments. So there's a lot of editorial decisions about what would ma
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by philgyford 4y ago
Hi, that's my site. It's been running for twenty years, through two complete cycles of the diary, and we've just started the third. You can read it on the site (or via its RSS), or get each diary entry via email https:/
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by philgyford 4y ago
Ooh, I've probably got some more since then, because I hadn't finished working my way through the diary (for the second time) when I sent you that lot.
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by philgyford 4y ago
At the moment I've only added blogs that have been updated within the past year or so. But over time some blogs will obviously stop updating. It's currently possible to filter each category to only show blogs that have been update
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by philgyford 4y ago
I will be adding various OPML files at some point.
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by philgyford 4y ago
Definitely - but it's very useful to start off with a suggestion!
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by philgyford 4y ago
As it says on the About page ( https://ooh.directory/about/ ): > Some blogs appear in two or, occasionally, three categories. If it would take more than that, it ends up in the wonderland of Uncategorizable.
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by philgyford 4y ago
Thanks. Strange, not sure why. Lots of people are managing to see it fine, but there's obviously something not quite right somewhere...
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by philgyford 4y ago
There's always "Personal blogs", which is a large number of them.
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by philgyford 4y ago
Hi, it's my site. I find the links by exploring*, and I add and categorise them manually. * or "surfing the net", if you're old enough.
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by philgyford 4y ago
Looks OK from here. What are you seeing? (It's my site.)

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