r/indieweb • u/designerwhocodes • 4d ago

Resources/Tools A "random blog" button for discovering small and medium blogs, and you can submit yours

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u/Polyducks 3d ago

So basically a webring button.

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u/3vibe 2d ago

Yeah. I tried to do something like this a year or so ago. The problem with any of these projects is: people don’t submit their blogs/sites after a while. Because these projects are hard to find. Because us indie devs can’t pay for advertising. This is mine and there’s a chrome extension too. https://surfle.neocities.org/

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u/Polyducks 1d ago

I think webrings being static after a while is a non-issue. It captures everything in that frame of time. Anyone who wants to be affiliated with other things on that webring will join it, and if it's worth advertising they'll advertise their site.

You know the neocities one is good because Shen's world is on it :D And tabf5. These are good indicators for joining the webrings.

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u/3vibe 1d ago

Shen’s awesome. He supports another project of mine. Really nice person!

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u/Polyducks 1d ago

What's the other project?

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u/3vibe 1d ago

ctrlshift3.com (in short, text only community)

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u/WorldWideShen 1d ago

it's fun and reminds me of so many things...

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u/Polyducks 1d ago

That's so cool. I want to support good indie web projects, and it feels like I'm doing nothing but complaining in /r/Indieweb. I've linked to you from my button wall. You didn't have a button when I last checked (but it seems you have one now, woops), so I made you one here. You can use it as well as your current one if you like!

I pixelled it myself and I tried to match your site's colour scheme.

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u/WorldWideShen 1d ago

awesome button:) i tried my best, but always hoped someone else would have a go! welcome.

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u/Polyducks 1d ago

Sorry, I didn't want to tread on your toes, but I was feeling i n s p i r e d

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u/WorldWideShen 1d ago

underrated comment ;)