Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

Posted by susam 1 day ago

Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web(susam.net)

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cosmicgadget 17 hours ago|

Seems like a perfect addition to any links page.

Would it be possible to create a list of sites with a Wander?

shynome 4 hours ago||

cool,I like this

weedhopper 20 hours ago||

Awesome it’s hosted on codeberg too

xnorswap 19 hours ago||

So is this web rings all over again?

worldsayshi 14 hours ago||

I kind of want webrings but with federated OIDC. I.e. you can create an account at any of the sites and re-use the login on the others to leave comments/add content. This has to exist in some neat package right?

foo42 1 hour ago||

I feel like activity pub was supposed to / does enable this.

Perhaps someone better informed than I could comment.

moralestapia 19 hours ago||

It is StumbleUpon over again.

susam 18 hours ago||

There is indeed a lot of similarity with webrings and StumbleUpon but there are some differences as well. I discuss this in more detail in the project README here: https://codeberg.org/susam/wander#faq

moralestapia 15 hours ago||

Just to clarify, I like Wander. I'd really like to see something fill in the void left by StumbleUpon.

I used to spend hoooooooours wandering there.

dreko 19 hours ago||

This is really cool, I think the idea here is fantastic!

warkdarrior 20 hours ago||

This will get really fun when influencers get a hold of the idea and start connecting themselves into the Wander community.

SilverElfin 10 hours ago||

I get an infinite loop of checking my connection and the page reloading, making it difficult to navigate back. Is this some kind of scammy site?

surgical_fire 20 hours ago||

This is actually pretty cool. Once I have my own personal webpage, I may even add this tool to it.

It is a project I keep postponing lol

ab_testing 19 hours ago||

So like StumbleUpon

superkuh 16 hours ago|

It would be cool if the javascript were re-written a bit to only use standard long existing javascript features so one didn't have to run a modern corporate browser to use the "wander" functionality. It did not work in my browser even with JS enabled.

susam 12 hours ago|

Sorry to know it did not work in your browser and thank you for reporting the problem here. If someone is able to reproduce it and share details either here or at <https://codeberg.org/susam/wander/issues>, especially which JavaScript features are not working, I would be happy to update the code.

I am aware that I have used a number of relatively modern features. For example, I suspect `for ... of` might be one, and perhaps `Element.append()` (instead of `Node.appendChild()`) could also be an issue. Unfortunately, I do not have old browsers to test this reliably, so any help in identifying the exact constructs or functions causing problems would be very appreciated.

exographicskip 2 hours ago||

browserstack might be a good option to test a bunch of browsers and their different versions on real devices.

Never used it personally, but might get some mileage out of the free plan before their time-based usage expires.

https://www.browserstack.com/docs/automate-self-hosted/getti...

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