Reminds me of the web back in the 90’s, before Google.
yo dawg
What’s the format, I don’t quite get it.
A semi-curated website directory sorted by language, topic, subtopic. I haven’t seen anything like it for a long time.
Excite and Yahoo both had directories like it back in the day, when boolean was needed for productive web search, and natural language web searches were not yet a thing.
This project makes me wish we were all still using something like del.icio.us to organize and favorite our websites. I suppose it would be a privacy nightmare today and would be overrun with bots. I just miss the whole tagging (vs nested folder) way of organizing notes and personal libraries. Like a building a personal multidimensional Dewey decimal system.
Tagging used to be the cool way to solve these kinds of library/search problems and you found it more developed and more often in note taking, web favorites, recipe collecting, email, personal library cataloguing, photo collections, etc. I suppose it feels a bit clunky compared to the natural language search people have gotten used to. But, I liked browsing by tag clouds. And natural language searching has always felt worse to me than using more structured search syntax more like an SQL query than a question. I always hated Ask Jeeves and Clippy and now it feels impossible to navigate the Internet without interacting with their mutant descendants.
If I remember correctly, Yahoo started exactly like this - curated communities and subsets made of links with perhaps a couple of sentences about each site. I think I might have had a handful of communities back then.
I think it’s an interesting for a bespoke community where people are experts on a set of areas and create essentially catalogs. It can’t compete at scale, of course.
But no - support
