Show HN: The Internet Portal – Warp to a Random Website, Using ICANN CZDS Data

Re:Show HN: The Internet Portal – Warp to a Random Website, ... by ralston3 on Sunday September 13, 2020 @06:30PM (#24464479)

I did "Jump In"s for about 10 minutes. Thought I'd provide some feedback.

I <3 the idea. I've personally wanted to see something like this for a while as I continuously visit the same 10 sites every day (as do most people).

Some feedback for the next iteration:

- Maybe ping sites first to see if they're down before jumping? I hit a few 500 and 404s during my jumps. - Possibly show "content" sites? Said another way - I jumped into a few business pages XD (lawyers, doctors, and such) and those aren't the most interesting.

UX and speed all seem pretty decent. Thanks for sharing

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Re:Show HN: The Internet Portal – Warp to a Random Website, ... by sberman on Sunday September 13, 2020 @07:17PM (#24464762)

Thanks for the feedback! I'm thinking about ways to prevent loading broken websites. I'm not sure it's possible to filter for only a certain type of website though, I think there are way too many sites for that.

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Re:Show HN: The Internet Portal – Warp to a Random Website, ... by indigodaddy on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:18AM (#24467015)

I would say 75%+ of all the working sites were parked or expired pages. I would suggest to remove or re-redirect any sites that resolve to known registrar parking page IPs (perhaps only assuming if these IPs are distinct from their webhosting cluster IPs, where actual webhosting customer websites might live). That might be a good start to at least prune a lot of the parked sites.

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