互联网与文化neustadt.fr编辑精选
重新发现小型网络
Rediscovering the Small Web
2020 — 2024，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
导读
这篇文章怀念并倡导“小网站”（Small Web）：一个由个人主页、独立博客和手工链接组成、不依赖大平台和算法的早期互联网形态。作者回顾了搜索引擎优化、社交媒体如何把网络变成少数巨头的领地，并鼓励人们重新建立自己的小角落。
为什么经久不衰：它触及许多人对当下中心化、商业化互联网的不满，四年间两度登上 HN 首页，说明“重拾个人网站”的愿望持续共鸣。
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列举了小网站运动中的多个新兴实践与工具
如果你对这方面的新进展感兴趣：Beaker 点对点浏览器刚发布测试版，内置编辑器，可以在浏览器里直接编辑、发布和阅读页面；special.fish 这个极简社交网络流行起来，只聚焦个人主页而非信息流；公开的 TiddlyWiki 小站亚文化也在增长；还有小型个人链接目录论坛 indieseek.xyz，用雅虎/DMOZ 式的目录来索引网络的角落。
kickscondor查看英文原文
If you're interested in recent innovations on this front: (rather than just retreading the same Web as before) * Beaker (https://beakerbrowser.com) the peer-to-peer browser just released their beta release - and it has some exciting features. Particularly the built-in editor, meaning you can edit, serve and read your pages all from the browser. (Blogging in Beaker is as simple as visiting: hyper://a8e9bd0f4df60ed5246a1b1f53d51a1feaeb1315266f769ac218436f12fda830/. And the posts are stored locally.) * https://special.fish/ This completely low-tech social network has taken off. The innovation here is that it's all just focused on profile pages - not feeds of random posts. * There's a growing subculture of public Tiddlywikis (philosopher.life, sphygm.us, etc) - rather than focusing on protocols and APIs, they are much more focused on how to organize and style personal hypertext. * As for RSS, well, as HN custom insists, I am also commenting to plug my own fraidyc.at. See, you knew it was here. * On a related note, I've also been working on an RSS/Atom extension to handle ephemeral posts: live streams, "stories", pinned posts, etc. https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat/wiki/RSS-Atom-Extensions * There's also a forum on tiny personal link directories that's been forming at https://forum.indieseek.xyz. The idea here is to use Yahoo! or DMOZ style link directories at a smaller scale, to catalog corners of the Web. (Note that this whole comment itself is a kind of small 'directory'. Rather than an algorithm stepping in to show you 'related' stuff, I have.)
推荐 wiby.me 作为发现被埋没的优质小网站的入口
我最喜欢的发现这类网站的入口是 wiby.me。网上藏着大量被热门搜索结果掩盖的精彩内容，很多自 1998 年就没更新过的站点却有百科全书式的主题清单（比如各种番茄的特性、如何用零件组装摩托车）。有些内容虽旧，但正因其永恒或持续有用才被收录。每当我对当前网络感到绝望，这就是完美的解药！
asaibx查看英文原文
My favourite portal for discovering sites like this is something I discovered just recently here on HN: https://wiby.me/ It never fails to amaze me how much amazing stuff is out there online, hidden by a thick layer of top search results, and even more than that, the sheer amount of individual and collective effort that has been put into each of these sites. Someone mentioned the word "niche" and there is certainly some weirdly (or wonderfully) specific content you will find in the Wiby.me index. Lots of sites that haven't been updated since 1998, but still have an enormous and encyclopedic list of everything related to some topic (like the characteristics of different types of tomatoes, or how to build a motorcycle from spare parts or whatever). Some of it may be a little out of date, but a lot of it has been submitted for indexing precisely because of its timelessness or continued usefulness. Whenever I feel hopeless about the current state of the web, I find this is the perfect antidote!
提议用现代方式复兴 webring，靠人工推荐保持质量
我想为这个方向做的贡献是一个简单的 webring 服务。Webring 原本就是一个环形链表：每个主题网站链接到下一个同类站点。我想做一个只提供上一个/下一个/随机按钮的小挂件，保持旧式的人工审核加入方式——需要现有成员推荐。你只需在页面上放一小段 HTML，不加载任何重型 JS 或分析脚本。
StavrosK查看英文原文
I've been thinking about this for ages, and I want my own contribution to this to be a simple webring service. If you're unfamiliar with the concept, a webring was a simple circular linked list. You had a link on your knitting-themed site to the "next knitting-themed site", that site had a link to the next one, etc. To join the ring, you just emailed someone and said "hey, I, too, have a knitting-themed site, can you add me to your webring?", they looked at your site, and changed their link to your site, you added the link they previously had, and the ring continued. I want to build something simple that'll serve a small widget with previous/next/random site buttons, it'll work like the webrings of old regarding the curation aspect, so to get added you'll need to be referred to by someone. Would you use something like that? You'd basically just drop a bit of HTML on your page and it wouldn't load heavy JS/analytics/crap, just whatever was necessary to paint a few links.
用图书馆变商场的比喻概括网络的商业化演变
在我脑海里，早期网络更像一座图书馆，而随着时间推移它变成了购物中心。继续这个类比：我周围很多大型室内购物中心已被拆除，换成了独立的户外门店（围墙花园？）。我不确定接下来会走向何方。
chris_f查看英文原文
When I picture it in my head I think of the early web as more of a library. Over time it has transitioned into a shopping mall. If I continue with this thought exercise, a lot of the big indoor shopping malls around me have been knocked down and replaced with standalone outdoor stores (walled gardens?). I'm not sure where things are going next.
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