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  susam
  This is a very nice project! Thank you for creating it and sharing it here on HN. I like the minimal version more but the modern version is quite nice too. I would probably stick to the minimal version but since it seems to lack the search feature I end up using the modern version for that.By the way, some minor issues I found:1. In the minimal version, when browsing the list of blogs I cannot get past page 12. The last page the UI lets me navigate to is https://text.blogosphere.app/blogs-12 which shows blogs up to names starting with 'M'. I can reach page 13 by manually editing the URL to https://text.blogosphere.app/blogs-13 which shows two blogs starting with 'N'. However, pages 14 and beyond just load the home page. Surely there are more blogs with names starting with 'O', 'P', etc.?2. The modern version at https://blogosphere.app/ uses infinite scroll, which makes it impossible to reach the footer. Each time I scroll down, more content loads and pushes the footer further away. I was only able to view the footer by modifying the DOM in the browser's developer tools. It would be nice if there were a straightforward way to access the footer.
• rodarima
  Amazing that the minimal version works in Dillo, except for the categories menu which uses JS (using a form and submit button inside a noscript tag would work as a fallback).
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  Hard_Space
  Incredible that we are regressing back to webrings and hand-curated lists like this, both of which I remember well. That's not a criticism! I guess that the quality-drop in search wasn't quite enough to make it happen, but the advent of AI content predomination will be.
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  glenstein
  Love this! I very much appreciate the inclusion of a lightweight version, as I think lightweight discovery for blogs and the small web is where good tools and apps are needed.Also, given that the lightweight version is very hn styled format it naturally leads my brain to imagining a version with upvotes and commenters (which may be a good or a bad thing) but with the link submission part automated. Not necessarily the intent here but it was the first time that particular combination of possibilities occurred to me as a way to do things.Also curious about how these blogs are indexed/reviewed. Is the list ever pruned over time due to inactivity?
• l72
  I always thought the "planets"[1][2][3] were a neat idea. I wish there were more of them for dedicated topics. Then I can just subscribe to specific planets which pulls curated feeds from various blogs on that topic.[1] Planet Gnome: https://planet.gnome.org/[2] Planet Debian: https://planet.debian.org/[3] Planet GNU: https://planet.gnu.org/
• ashwinne
  I would love a old-school search engine that pulls results purely from a well curated list of websites and blogs.
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  jasoneckert
  This is great, thanks! It sort of feels like browsing for gems in a used bookstore and stumbling onto authentic, personal writing. I'm always up for that, and plan on spending plenty of time exploring the list.I’ve submitted mine as well - cheers!
• reedlaw
  I've come to the conclusion that Hacker News is the best aggregator out there. Substack knows my interests yet gives terrible recommendations. Youtube constantly recommends the same videos or exaggerates my interest in a topic based on a few views, spamming me with related content until I watch something unrelated. The only downside of Hacker News is that its focus is narrower than other sites. But perhaps because the focus is "Anything that good hackers would find interesting" there is a bias towards things I find interesting with less noise than more commercial offerings.
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  dchuk
  Very clean site, well done. I’ve built something similar, but it also has an algorithmic front page option as well based on the “standard” algorithm from Reddit/HN: https://engineered.atI also have it wired up to gpt nano for topic extraction and summary creation per post, if you register for an account (free) you can also follow sources and topics to fine tune things.I have a big list of features to continue adding to it, like an ability to “claim” your site so you can get some analytics from the site, and potentially to boost your site in the algorithm. Might also add a jobs board.If you’re interested, while this site is closed source, the feed monitoring rails engine is open source: https://github.com/dchuk/source_monitor
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  colejhudson
  Lovely!Those who enjoy this might also like:- https://kagi.com/smallweb- https://blogroll.org/- https://minifeed.net/welcome- https://ooh.directory/
• blue_hex
  i can't describe how happy this project makes me feel. Honestly, i don't even know why. I mean, the idea is great but it's nothing "extra", still it just feels right. Like breath of fresh air.
• zahlman
  > Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/Could you add a form submission button next to the filter, so that it doesn't require JavaScript? (Or actually that can probably be done easily enough with some kind of CSS variable-setting trick...?)
• skeptrune
  This is awesome! I'm happy someone made this exist.
• rednafi
  This is great. But I’ve bookmarked at least 10 of these aggregators over the years, and I never revisit any of them. Partly because I don’t have the time to browse and discover new content.I also don’t read the blog spam from prolific writers who pop up here every two days, especially the low-quality ones constantly yapping about AI. So the number of blogs I revisit is a handful, and I have a page on my site listing them [1]. Some of the blogs I’ve listed also have backlinks to my site. It’s super simple and works fairly well for me. Plus there’s rss.[1]: https://rednafi.com/blogroll/
• bovermyer
  There's also this: https://minifeed.net/globalHowever, I think (text.)Blogosphere has a nicer interface, personally. Maybe I'm just used to HN.
• givemeethekeys
  This is a great idea. I think you should ask people to pay a subscription for commenting. Turn it into a community supported site from the get go!
• freetonik
  Very cool! Love the minimal design a lot, unsurprisingly.My Minifeed [1] started with a similar goal of having a "HN for blogs", but then it grew to include search, related recommendations, custom feeds, lists, etc. I don't have categories though.[1] https://minifeed.net/
• riceballs_tlp
  How do you curate the blogs that are being added to this? I see that there's a way to submit your own blog, but was there a list you started with initially? Thanks for making this!
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  ml-
  Nice job. A small suggestion, unless I completely missed it, an option to filter by post / blog language.
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  sodapopcan
  Very nice, this is great! Love that you give the two UX options.FYI (bug report): In the non-minimal version, navigating by category is janky in FireFox. The logo briefly disappears with the nav jumping up in its place every time you click a category.
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  Johnny_Bonk
  One recommendation is to keep header fixed on scroll so you can always nav away. most sites fail to do this it seems
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  holtwick
  Small web, try this one https://bubbles.town
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  bryanhogan
  Any plans on adding a way to filter out "lower quality" posts which usually dominate chronologically sorted post lists?And, possibly a way to filter type of content more in-depth than just one category?
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• highspeedbus
  That's great. I wish we could convince more people to use similar tools regularly, myself included.It may not 'scale' as well as algorithmic feeds, but maybe that's what will save the Web. We need more sweat and passion, both in curation of content and in the effort to find it.
• randusername
  Great work, I haven't updated my public site in years while I waited for the LLM stuff to play out, but you've inspired me to put it back out there and submit.
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  nextaccountic
  Question, is this strictly chronological, or is there anything at all to make this an "algorithmic feed" like HN, reddit, twitter, or facebook? (list is roughly in the order of less shitty to more shitty, but note that none of them are chronological, unlike, say, a RSS reader aggregating some set of blogs)
• AndrewStephens
  I love this (and submitted my blog) - people bemoan the death of the Old Web™ but in reality there is still heaps of great content being created.
• evanjrowley
  Addition of a "Dark Mode" button would be much appreciated!
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  LostMyLogin
  Love this! New homepage for me. Do you have a buy me coffee button to help keep it live?
• tpemist
  Thanks for sharing, it's a great idea! but the site is not reachable now, it stuck.
• dalmo3
  TBH I'd love to see that idea as a /blogs list here at HN.
• akshitgaur2005
  Hey, I am just getting started with blogging, could/should I submit my website too?
• joenot443
  I love it.I'd love a search bar and maybe a means to sort by popularity (however you define it.)I like that it's free and clean and direct; I hope it remains that way!
• _HMCB_
  Superb! Thank you. Psychologically, the minimal version feels perfect; as if it were more connected with the spirit of blogging.
• Biologist123
  Nice. I can see a version of this working for ever more niche areas. Curated reading lists for areas of interest. At which point a curated list of curated lists becomes viable!
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  siva7
  This feels so Yahoo-1994. Love that we are getting back to our origins thanks to AI.
• sourcegrift
  "A woman had sex with identical twins and now it's impossible to tell who is the father", is this a blog post or news or sarcastic news or what the hell
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  obsidianbases1
  Something like this is very much needed.I hope to see more things like this.What would be really cool is if there was a personalized algorithm (for you page) that stored data and processed locally.
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  SirFatty
  Did you use Frontpage to create your frontpage?
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  robertheadley
  Great concept, I miss the ability to like things though.
• lemiffe
  Great idea! Could you add a "music" category please for blogs?
• AnonyMD
  It's a very modern and clean design.
• tombert
  Interesting. I submitted mine.
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• gray_wolf_99
  Great idea!
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  setnone
  This is great. I'm curious what's your vision on adding comments?
• mmargenot
  Very cool! This was a good impetus to actually add RSS to my blog.
• sebastianconcpt
  Yeah we need to make curated human signals stronger.
• napolux
  scoring will bring spam and voting brigades if not managed properly
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  chistev
  Great job.Submitted my blog.
• getaid
  Cool project.
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  ramraj07
  give people the ability to curate their own collections and publish them
• wonger_
  FWIW hackr.news has a smallweb filter: https://hcker.news/?smallweb=trueBut kudos for different people working on similar good ideas
• notanormalnerd
  Hahahahha... I was trying to build something like this for a while. Seems like I wasn't the only one with this idea. So happy someone finally did it!
• danielszlaski
  Nice and clean.
• postalcoder
  If anyone looking for something even more minimalist, give the HN x Small Web RSS feed a tryhttps://hcker.news/feeds/atom?period=day&limit=50&smallweb=t...
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  the_axiom
  What if I have a personal handwritten blog but it has nazist content?
• Kye
  Variety! I appreciate that it's not all tech writing from tech blogs from people in tech like almost every blog list/aggregator thing on HN.
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  efilife
  This doesn't have an RSS feed? bummer
• Imustaskforhelp
  Yes!! I found a new website to use :-)I just hope if you can add dark-mode, I use hackernews essential which adds dark mode and more features which I really like in hackernews, Perhaps something like this can be added but overall I really like it!You have (essentially) just made something which I imagined 2 years ago:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789661: Ask HN: Are you interested in a Hacker News alternative which doesnt focus on AI (Oct 9 2024)My point, which has only grown to an even larger degree is that Hackernews has too many AI discussions, which both feels a bit fomo to me and also I am seeing AI generated blog posts and comments now on Hackernews as well.At some point, I want a website where I can talk about the more human aspects, some occasional AI mention is fine but not if a quarter or half of front page is hackernews and some genuinely nice projects don't get the attention :(I had joined hackernews to read those content pieces and fell in love with the human discussion aspect but now there are definitely moments of browsing hackernews which makes me feel as to what I had written in the ask HNmy last line within the ask HN was: I just want people who don't want the latest ai hype to gather around and discuss some other cool things which are "not" AI. This kind of fits into thatAdding my submissions of blog-posts into it in sometime :) See you there!
• gosingk
  Nice project
• gorbiesRedScar
  perfect.
• trvz
  This is silly.RSS readers exist. Feed a Fever was even better.
• caaqil
  I will be that guy: how is this different from HN? Or the many niche subreddits that already do this? I am seriously asking.To me, it seems like a poor version of subreddits with HN shell to wash it down.
• BrokenCogs
  Now please build a frontpage for all the frontpages on blogs
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• arrty88
  super dope. now make it infinite scroll and put ads all over the place! /s
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• ronb1964
  Funny timing — I tried to submit my own Show HN today for a small Linux app I've been building and got blocked because my account is too new. Spent the afternoon reading through HN threads to build up some karma instead. Feels like the indie software equivalent of the same problem this project is trying to solve — it's getting harder for small, genuine projects to find an audience without gaming some system first. Appreciate what you've built here!