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Posted by rocketpastsix 1 day ago

Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes(theindex.fyi)
I saw a comment here about how there are so many indexes of indie sites, blogs, etc but there wasn't an index of all the indexes. So I built it. It doesn't require a log in, just go browse! I've curated about 30 or so, but there is a submission form if there are ones I am missing.

Also happy to take UI improvements because I am not great in that area!

122 points | 39 comments
culi 13 hours ago|
Shocked at the exclusion of gossips web!

I have a very similar list:

- indieblog.page, gossipsweb.net, html.energy, yesterweb.org, xn--sr8hvo.ws, personalsit.es, readsomethinginteresting.com, ooh.directory

- indieweb.org, handmade.network

- 1mb.club, 512kb.club, 250kb.club, 10kbclub.com, 1kb.club

- no-js.club, js1k.com, js1024.fun

- nocss.club

- uses.tech, nownownow.com, aprilcools.club

- whimsical.club, brutalistwebsites.com, spaghetti.directory

- neocities.org

Not sure if these are all still online since it's an old list

rocketpastsix 12 hours ago|
definitely have a bunch of these but I know a few are missing! Feel free to submit them :)
marginalia_nu 19 hours ago||
Why does Kagi's Smallweb have a 'no submissions' label? I was under the impression you just PR:ed here: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb
rocketpastsix 19 hours ago|
Ah I missed that, thanks! I’ve updated it
cemsakarya 15 hours ago||
I love this so much. I believe there is a sea of valuable blogs being buried in google search indexing weird SEO rules, and whatever crawling the AI systems are doing. We need to preserve the actual human generated content that predates AI. Wishing you huge success, thank you!
rambambram 21 hours ago||
Don't know where your colors and style come from, but imo you're doing fine on that front.

Nice project also! Bookmarked.

In the same vein; I stumbled upon Wander (pun intended) by browsing a HN post from yesterday. I really like that take on discovery of smaller curated websites. https://codeberg.org/susam/wander#readme

tasuki 21 hours ago||
> colors

I'm always amazed when people go through the trouble of adding a light/dark theme switcher rather than just respecting the user's system preference with `prefers-color-scheme`[0].

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...

wonger_ 20 hours ago|||
You can do both, because some people like having per-site color controls.

Like I prefer to read prose and literary website content in light mode while keeping my OS in dark mode.

Admittedly it's a niche use case.

zahlman 11 hours ago|||
You can do both. And then you help out people who don't know that they have a meaningful system preference (or maybe all the other sites they visit don't honour it, or maybe their web browser isn't picking it up for some reason).
rocketpastsix 20 hours ago|||
Hey thank you! That’s awesome, I’ll take a look at Wander this afternoon
efilife 12 hours ago||
they are from Claude
quacky_batak 16 hours ago||
This is an amazing project, alternative domain “the-indiex”
rocketpastsix 16 hours ago|
ha now I wish I had thought of that.
8organicbits 14 hours ago||
I maintain a similar index-of-indexes but it's intentionally non-curated, restricted to indexes that use the OPML format, and uses autodiscovery to expand the list. The site needs some work, but it's up to 356 indexes.

https://blogroll-network.alexsci.com/blogrolls/

I'd recommend looking at anything with "planet" in the name, there are a bunch of tech communities that manage community feeds and they are high quality. There are also a ton of personal blogroll recommendations via micro.blog too.

8organicbits 13 hours ago|
Another index-of-indexes is https://brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm, which tracks 648 webrings!

And https://brisray.com/web/indiedirs.htm, which has some other great indieweb indexes

culi 13 hours ago||
Now we need an index of indexes of indexes. I too keep such a list but it's just an Obsidian note I manually update

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089823

I also have a separate list of my favorite parts of the internet I plan to eventually turn into something like this: https://wilderness.land/ (my inspo)

yuppiepuppie 18 hours ago||
Any chance you can put https://hnarcade.com on there?
rocketpastsix 16 hours ago|
I saw it in the submissions - seems like it fits.
deferredgrant 20 hours ago||
The best part is reducing dependence on algorithmic feeds. Sometimes discovery should feel like wandering, not being optimized.
freetonik 20 hours ago||
Nice project! Thanks for including Minifeed!
rocketpastsix 12 hours ago|
you're welcome!
Imustaskforhelp 20 hours ago|
Wait, is this perhaps my comment/disussion?

"Are there any indexes which index all of these too?" - (comment written by me at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069558)

I am not exactly sure if it was my comment itself which helped in it but no matter what, this is exactly what I was talking about and I am so glad that you made it!

Really awesome work! Definitely gonna add my blog site into a few of these and just gonna scroll it, ah this feels so good, i really appreciate your effort and I hope more people share even more indexes and it becomes an even more complete index of all indexes and we preserve the spirit of the open internet! This feels really good to me! :-)

rocketpastsix 19 hours ago|
The one above yours was what set me off on the path but yours helps reinforce it!
Imustaskforhelp 19 hours ago||
Ah great, well I am happy that it was within the same discussion and I am happy that I could help reinforce a positive change on the internet and so thanks for making this website because this is exactly what I wanted/wished when I had written that comment :-D

I am right now thinking of connecting all these indexes within the list as much as I can into rss files and going to hopefully tinker around with some rss with all these indexes listed within your website and this has certainly brought me a bit of hope regarding the open internet if enough people use such indexes or index of indexes :-D

Edit: The rss section within your website has been really helpful in finding websites which are doing what I am talking about and so many other things, its been so good delving in these things and I find it really nice :-)

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