Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37420281 (668 points | 5 months ago | 185 comments)

See also:

https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random

Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081

Kagi are using HN as free advertising, so we will hear about it whether folks are interested or not.

I've started making a list of "small web" discovery sites

https://wiby.me/surprise/

https://search.marginalia.nu/

https://ooh.directory/

https://curlie.org/

and now this one too!

Curlie was new to me, thanks — I thought DMOZ was dead-dead

Here are two more for your list:

https://theforest.link/

https://indieblog.page/

Also experimenting with data URL website.

- https://goog.space/ - https://gitlab.com/sctlib/space-element

For example this archive and this data URL are the same.

- https://archive.is/WXFmQ - https://goog.space/#data=eyJ2YWx1ZSI6IiMgS2FnaSBoZWxsbyFcblx...

I made something similar, with more of a focus on small tech blogs:

https://blogs.hn

I’ve been wanting to add an omnibus RSS feed, but haven’t had the time. Let me know if you can think of easy ways to merge a bunch of RSS feeds!

Merging RSS feeds is what we do at FeedPress (among other things). Let me know if you want to try, that could be a great challenge!

Entire startups have come and gone trying to solve issues like that

Not really. Every "planet.whatever-project.tld" has been doing that since many years

You can only submit a site thru a megacorporate proprietary service? Why is Microsoft GitHub involved when talking about “small web”--it is the opposite of small & indie + requires ToS & privacy concerns around accounts with that service (not to mention those blocked by US sanctions).

Do you have a proposals how to tackle those challenges?

well, yeah actually. This is not an excuse, everything can be changed into something more open and not Microsoft software.

Kagi - one of the best uses of money in 2024.

Kagi, Proton, NextDNS, 1Blocker. My internet experience has gotten a lot less free (as in beer), but I’m totally fine with that.

The key was it never was free, it’s just you couldn’t see what you were trading for it. I’d much rather do my transactions above the table than behind my back.

The fact that they don't offer any kind of free trial to me is insane.

They do. 100 free searches. https://kagi.com/pricing

Bizarre. When I checked on mobile their was no free pricing tier. A/B testing?

Depends on whether you're already logged in it seems

This is the thing that’s going to make me finally build my rss feed and maybe start publishing more regularly again.

Kagi seems to be leading the counterrevolution and I can get behind that

"Add Site" menu shows a popup saying:

'Hit "Add Site," and a new tab will open where you can add the feed to the end of our list. We'll sort it out after we take a look.'

but then clicking the button just goes to: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/edit/main/smallweb.tx...

I guess technically "you can add the feed to the end of our list" is forking the repo and submitting a PR, but...

This is a fun idea, and I hope it takes off, but I already noticed some spammy sites, and reporting them isn't easy (it requires a PR).

I understand that adding a site requires a PR to have some barrier to entry, but reporting should probably be more accessible.

Wondering which sites you saw that are spammy, as I consume this 2-3 times a day pretty much every day and have not noticed any. In any case submitting a PR to remove them should not be as burdensome.

I see they have a "small Youtube" page.

For a different take on the "small Youtube" concept, also see http://astronaut.io/ (featured here on HN a long time ago)

I like this, but when I saw "directory" I was hoping to see something more like DMOZ, something ontological rather than a grab bag. Still cool, though, and I intend to spend some time poking around.

Does Kagi has an add-on system that allows 3rd party developers to customize their searching/indexing/ranking/etc?

This is very cool. Love exploring new ways to make small websites more discoverable since SEO has made them very undiscoverable through search engines.

feedback: flag content button takes me to a 404: https://kagi.com/smallweb/flag_content?

Should work now.

Wouldn't it be cool to have a website where you can discover smaller blogs? Whether you're looking for blogs about tech, philosophy or whatever. And people can leave reviews about those blogs on the website so users can easily find/sort/filter for what they're looking for.

You are describing StumbleUpon and similar sites.

To be fair, StumbleUpon shut down half a decade ago and had vanished from the public consciousness far before that.

So, basically StumbleUpon? Do I really have to sift through one page at a time with no filtering options?

So go build something better.

Kagi sucks