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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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akshitgaur2005 6 days ago|
Hey, I am just getting started with blogging, could/should I submit my website too?
OpFour 5 days ago||
I made something similar, but for Linux news and information! thelinuxreport.com :D
siva7 6 days ago||
This feels so Yahoo-1994. Love that we are getting back to our origins thanks to AI.
bookofjoe 5 days ago|
That's so funny: I just reactivated my Yahoo email address.
blue_hex 5 days ago||
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.
setnone 6 days ago||
This is great. I'm curious what's your vision on adding comments?
ramkarthikk 6 days ago|
If you're referring to comments on the website, I plan to keep it minimal (the text version is a static site).

If you're referring to comments on blogs in general, I have many thoughts. Back in the day, comments used to be how you connected with people and let other people find you. It also came with spam (spam plugins could only do so much).

With the rise of static site generators, most people don't have comments on their blogs now. It is something I miss though.

AndrewStephens 6 days ago|||
I haven’t had comments on my blog for over a decade now and I don’t miss them. For every useful and informative comment I got several spammy or rude reply. Anyone who wants to let me know something about my blog can message me on social media.

I’ve seen blogs that do not host comments themselves but instead automatically surface social media (usually mastodon) comments which I think is a useful technique.

bookofjoe 5 days ago|||
I've had comments (open, anonymous, no screening) on my blog since it started in 2004. Back in the day when it was very popular, most of my blog posts were the result of reader tips/advice/heads-up/etc. I have to work MUCH harder now that comments have pretty much dried up.
ramkarthikk 6 days ago||||
Yes, unfortunately spam and rude replies come with comments. I also don't have comments on my blog. I instead have one of those email masking services that allows to people to email me (and I have found this effective).
paulnpace 6 days ago||||
> Anyone who wants to let me know something about my blog can message me on social media.

But, can they?

AndrewStephens 4 days ago||
Well, probably. And if not there is always good old fashioned email.

Almost nobody actually contacts me but it is technically possible.

l72 6 days ago|||
Isn't that that point of POSSE[1]? Host your blog, post a link to it on social sites like Mastodon, and let the conversation happen on Mastodon.

[1] https://indieweb.org/POSSE

setnone 6 days ago||||
My literal brain pictured blogosphere's frontpage as something with users, rankings and comments on the websibe.

But moderation and spam are still the hardest problems indeed.

Siecje 5 days ago|||
There is cusdis[1] for comments on a static site.

1: https://cusdis.com/

lemiffe 6 days ago||
Great idea! Could you add a "music" category please for blogs?
evanjrowley 5 days ago||
Addition of a "Dark Mode" button would be much appreciated!
dalmo3 5 days ago||
TBH I'd love to see that idea as a /blogs list here at HN.
Discoaaron 4 days ago|
Love these, please default to follow system theme
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