Re:How Websites Die
by generalizations on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @07:15PM
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I wonder if manually curating a list of such valuable websites would be a useful resource for constructing search engine algorithms.
I mean, if I was building a search engine algo, I wouldn't necessarily know how to find the websites you describe, much less optimize for them.
Re:How Websites Die
by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:16PM
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you should make copies of those sites before they disappear if you care. maybe dont rehost them without the authors consent though
I'm active in the (hobbyist) field of documenting species. There's thousands upon thousands of websites created by amateurs containing unique niche content. For example, somebody might have made it their lifelong hobby to document every species of bee in their territory.
It's a fragmented mess of incompetently produced websites, but I find it incredibly charming and in the spirit of the original web. Above all, it is their content that has lasting value.
The people behind it are good, generous. That's why it makes me so angry when their work is cast aside like this. Things not just technically breaking, in many cases simply disappearing altogether from search results.