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Posted by susam 1 day ago

Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web(susam.net)
271 points | 69 commentspage 2
tannerc 7 hours ago|
Wow this is amazing! The experience and resulting websites are very refreshing. I feel inspired.

Throwback to the StumbleUpon days.

cal_dent 9 hours ago||
Cloudhiker.net has been doing this for a while too. Great to see more grassroot-ish attempt at expanding the web (or i guess more accurately returning it to its purpose)
thewanderer1983 13 hours ago||
Have you considered including Gemini and gopher support? There is a very nice small web community there.
moebrowne 18 hours ago||
It includes only 17 URLs: https://susam.net/wander/wander.js
susam 18 hours ago|
17 + 11 URLs from https://dahlstrand.net/wander/wander.js + 26 URLs from https://www.siddharthagolu.com/wander/wander.js that I link to from the above link. So 54 URLs so far.

The number of URLs grow as more people add this tool to their website and add each other as neighbours. The tool is capable of discovering neighbouring consoles and showing URLs from there.

Balinares 15 hours ago||
Did we just reinvent webrings 25 years later? :)

(Not a diss. Webrings were cool.)

efskap 8 hours ago||
They're cool, but centralized and, well, a ring. I like how this is a decentralized graph, the next step in their evolution.
montenegrohugo 10 hours ago||
Really neat. Immediately added to my own small blog: https://hugo0.com/wander
deanebarker 18 hours ago||
Love this, but I need it to allow me to break the frame. I found some neat sites, but I need a button to open them in a new tab, frame-free, if I want to.
mzajc 17 hours ago||
Firefox has a neat feature for this; if you right click an iframe, it'll have a "This Frame" menu with options including "Open Frame in New Tab".
susam 16 hours ago||
Thank you for taking a look at this project. I'm glad you liked it.

You make a fair point. I put this together in about 1.5 hours in the early hours of the morning while taking a break from other academic work, so it is not as polished as it could be. Adding an 'Open' button to launch a link in a new tab sounds like a useful feature. I will consider this for the next update. Thank you for the feedback!

bovermyer 19 hours ago||
Oh, that's neat. I think to really understand it though I'll have to explore it and experiment with hosting my own Console.
bovermyer 17 hours ago|
So, is this a meta-webring, that allows for showing individual sites but also sites that show other sites?
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