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The internet used to feel like a treasure hunt. Let’s bring that back.
(www.cornersofinternet.com)
It's broken without JS. Not so old-school after all.
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To be clear, the idea is not to be Old-School it is just to kinda bring that joy of discovery.
What is this corporate joke of a ui?
🥲 best I could do
I like it, I find it refreshing
Thank you so much..
This is pretty good and cool. Already found some hidden gems I didn't know about. Possible suggestion for another category is for youtube channels. Youtube's algorithm sucks now and there are only about 4 youtube channels I regularly watch. So it'll be cool to have a category to suggest good content creators on youtube .
I know this is an XY fallacy type response but you mentioned YouTube sucks now so I'd like to interject.
Use the subscriptions tab. If you only watch 4 channels, sub to those channels.
I have subbed to all of them but video recommantions on youtube aren't even related to the video or even topic nowadays I find. I get mrbeast wannabees in the related tab despite never watching them. I can't find new channels because algorithm even with no influence recommends stuff I'm not interested in unlike when youtube was first around and it recommended you content creators based on your personal watches and not the algorithm
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I did think about that, but the problem with that is I might have to then feature instagram creators (Thank god TikTok is banned jk :P)
I do wanna feature some youtueb videos, idk what should I do.
I would love suggestions.
Maybe content creators in general? I'm just spitballing but ultimately it's up to you.
For suggestions on content creators.
Grant Wisler. Very underrated comedy skit maker. Reminds me of the early days of smosh and those kind of youtube videos but blends the skits with modern storytelling so it can go from a skit into a existenital piece of art and it doesn't feel jarring at all. I feel like he's going to make it big if more people knew about him.
Misohungrie. Cooking channel but cooks from those cookbooks based on fictional IP (One Piece, Ninja turtles, Gremlins even) to see if the food in the cookbooks is actually any good or if it's just a cashgrab. It's a very specific niche but a niche no one else is doing to my knowledge and he does it well.
Another cooking channel, sortedfood. Just a group of british mates having fun cooking food and learning about food. Sometimes they gameify things by having challenges but you always learn something new when watching it.
Ah I do wanna bring a category that says Creators or something like that. Okay then I think it is possible for me to then tag them to a platform like youutbe Or instagram. Could be nice yeah. Also thanks for the suggestions watching Grant Wisler as I type. :D
Some feedback: the "hi I'm coi" thing at the top? I thought it was another LLM AI thing introducing itself. I closed the tab immediately, but then double checked when I read the rest of this post.
The social media links at the top, especially Twitter, are a negative for me. Fuck twitter and Facebook.
The big color buttons (that are not actually buttons) interspersed with text is a choice but it feels very bad-modern to me. If you're going for more retro pre-shit, maybe take inspiration from https://evenbettermotherfucking.website/ or friends.
Actually I do wanna get a designer for the project in the near future when i make some money with this site and turn it very retroish.. Rn i'm working with templates and preexisting codes. Yeah I know its not perfect but it will get there slowly I promise.
Regarding the Hi I'm Coi, yes now I get how it may sound LLMish. But the idea was to kinda introduce a character called Coi who is surfing the internet and fining cool shit uk.
Socials : i know it is kinda negative even I wanna be far away but need to get some traffic for the site. I don't know how to work around it. Maybe when there is more awareness about the site I will remove it.
Hold on to your design, don’t let some critics change it.
I design web gui stuff a lot, and I am hyper sensitive to most designers including me, being constricted to some conventions. So I really appreciate well designed non conventional stuff, like used to be more common years ago.
Your web stuff adds value which will go away if you conform too much
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What made it magical for me used to be StumbleUpon way back when it still had the extension. I miss it sometimes. 😥
StumbleUpon was what first came to mind when reading the site as well.
That was the one liner I had when I thought of this. Something like StubleUpon, but just organized chaos.
I miss it too, actually there is a I feel lucky button on the site which is very similar, need to see if I can turn that into an extension.
The internet used to feel like a treasure hunt because it wasn't indexed well, and a large part of the surface content were pages made by oddball people letting their weirdness run wild without social limitations.
Sure, algorithms keep most normies in a social media ecosystem, but it's also not exactly easy for me to make a truly anonymous website about the awesome predictions I've made from looking at the patterns in my breakfast cereal every morning - AND just let it be. There's pressure to promote it, crosspost it, etc. Even the fun of thought experiments posted to a GeoCities page come with risks now.
Maybe I'm jaded and lack the youthful energy to stay up until 4:30am slapping im14amdthisisdeep stuff somewhere. Maybe everyone else that's just slightly weird still expects to get paid for that with ads when it all used to be free and fun.
I've made websites about my little hobby projects. Rent a VPS for $1/month, get a privacy, no-name domain for $5/year, and just put stuff up. Mostly for my own reference or documentation; I don't care if anyone else ever sees it, but it does get hits (mostly from the openai bot). Shouting into the void like it's 1995.
I do miss when people would post links to actual interesting original sites, as opposed to just screenshots of other social media posts. Give me a link to https://tvtropes.org/ not a jpeg of the KnowNothingKnowItAll next to a picture of Elon Musk. That's resulted in the internet going from 99% crap to 99.99% crap.
Thisss close to a 100% crap, we still have hope :P
I think part of this is also the disbursement of things and difficulty of discovery.
Before social media, GeoCities and maybe Turcows was it for free webhosting, so they were water holes you could look through. With so many platforms now, creative people are so spread out that Neocities feels like Fisher Price My First Website, but then going to Medium or Substack is also limiting and just not a place I expect to find genuine fun crazy.
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