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Posted by ramkarthikk 6 days ago

Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs(text.blogosphere.app)
With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories.

There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/

If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.

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boxedemp 5 days ago|
Very cool!! It's actually full of blogs! I've seen lots of claims for this kind of thing, glad to see you followed through!
quanwinn 5 days ago||
Love this! Was the UI done with Claude or some LLM? Not a critique, just curious because the designs give off that vibe to me.
_HMCB_ 5 days ago||
Superb! Thank you. Psychologically, the minimal version feels perfect; as if it were more connected with the spirit of blogging.
glerk 5 days ago||
Sweet! Glad to see so many active personal blogs. We should push to bring back RSS feeds somehow. I really miss that era.
SirFatty 6 days ago||
Did you use Frontpage to create your frontpage?
reconnecting 6 days ago|
<meta name="generator" content="FrontPage 4.0">
cr125rider 6 days ago||
Then add A BUNCH of extra XML to bloat the page nicely
reconnecting 5 days ago||
Back in the day, MS FrontPage was indeed synonymous with nested and unreliable page structure.

I wish I could go back and tell them it is nothing compared to what passes for web output in the 21st century.

xtiansimon 4 days ago||
I see it’s possible to subscribe to RSS from the app, but I can’t find the link on the website.
paulpauper 5 days ago||
"All submissions are manually reviewed before appearing in the directory."

it's like the late 90s early 2000s again

Johnny_Bonk 5 days ago||
One recommendation is to keep header fixed on scroll so you can always nav away. most sites fail to do this it seems
mm263 5 days ago|
Fixed header isn't always a good thing, it can also be a mistake. Since content is the product, let the content take up all available space and use your browser navigation capabilities to navigate if necessary
aavci 5 days ago||
I love the idea of such frontpages. There should be one for small scale b2c apps as well to help discovery
tpemist 5 days ago|
Thanks for sharing, it's a great idea! but the site is not reachable now, it stuck.
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