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Re:Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform by kickscondor on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:26PM (#23317176)
I run a Yahoo-style directory for blogs and articles I find: https://href.cool/. I'd personally like to see more personal directories rather than big monolithic directories of everything - those tend to collect spam.
Re:Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform by kfk on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:38AM (#23320048)
This is great. Will you allow other "friends" to create their own directories to? I'd like to contribute.

Just found: https://www.kleptones.com/blog/2012/06/28/hectic-city-15-pat...

Thanks!

Re:Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform by kickscondor on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:07AM (#23322557)
Certainly - if you email me ([email protected]) a link to your directory, I will absolutely include it here: https://href.cool/Web/Directory

There is also some discussion about this kind of thing here: https://forum.indieseek.xyz Good to meet you, Alessio.

Re:Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform by johntash on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @01:09AM (#23319566)
I like this idea, but I feel like it's shifting the problem to "how do you discover cool directories made by other people?"

Maybe an idea would be something like what you have, but using some sort of standard that could be pulled down similar to rss feeds?

Re:Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform by kickscondor on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:17AM (#23319921)
Well, it’s my opinion that technology can’t solve the discovery problem. I know we want it to. But at some point the technology has to evaluate the content. It can’t - so technology gives the content to humans to evaluate. However, it can’t evaluate the humans’ capabilities. :/

You discover a directory like mine just as you would discover any other link, johntash - by coming across it as you read, perhaps on Hacker News. If there were more directories, they would be easier to discover. They happen to be richer discovery points than a normal blog or profile page.