Now everything is behind a paywall or a signup wall

We're gonna bring it back.

The web is broken

FUCK I miss stumbleupon.

minus the abundant NSFL content

When the internet was mom n pop stores. Social media has turned it into big box stores

I don't know if it's sad that I've already seen many of these sites, or if that's to do with how the sites are populated/weighted.

Well this got me off Reddit for about an hour, nice!

Using upvotes to sort the /hot feed is a helpful. The most popular posts rise to the top.

Having those upvotes reflected on your profile encourages the more obnoxious posts. That part is what I mean by karma.

Reddit's feed is handled by a simple algorithm. It doesn't use machine learning to guess what you personally would like.

Woah, didn’t know that! Thanks!

Nothing can bring back the fun if good ol' StumbleUpon because the internet is pretty centralized right now and people are more inclined to make social media pages rather than making creative websites.

I don't mind Reddit replacing forums. What I hate is discord replacing forums. Discord is well and good as an AIM replacement but using it for forums, like games used to have, sucks.

Aren't you contradicting yourself? Reddit karma is what drives its algorithmic feed.

Centralization is what has allowed evil people to censor what folks say online.

I didn’t even know that was a thing! thats AWESOME

Oh no. I don’t go near those things, reminds me of being a 90’s baby and stumbling on horrific images in computer class.

Stumbleupon for browsing, thesixtyone for music

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2.99 a month. No thanks

My initial feedback after my first five minutes checking this out: a huge amount of sites I get only display this. Overall, all the sites it "stumbles upon" seem to have a very strong bias towards STEM topics, history, etc.

Nothing wrong with that at all in my opinion either, but many tend to be at a level that might require quite a bit of familiarity and/or studies that could be daunting for Joe Blow to even get why they are interesting or neat. Maybe the focus could be broadened somewhat, perhaps with a feature allowing me to select some baseline topics I'm interested in first, tech, video games, etc. As it is now, it doesn't feel particularly 'random' and many of the links aren't super 'casual' on first glance. Funnily enough, many of the sites that don't allow Cloudhiker here are really only where I'm seeing the quirkier stuff.

I'm not a programmer type, sorry if I can't really explain it more coherently than that. :)

Does anybody remember Netsurfer Digest?

The transition from web 1 to web2.0 was jarring. At least as we transfer onto web3 it will help bring things back to defi roots.

You can browse a lot of the old Geocities websites on geocities.restorativland.org. A lot of nostalgia there.

Thank you for your honest feedback. I agree that the internet is definitely something else today. Fortunately, there is no need to "grow" or keep anyone on the site by all means. I just hope that people enjoy the site and remember it every now and then.

>Might be worth putting in a toggle option to ignore sites that won't render on your website directly.

You can do than when signed in, with the "Hide Sites that can't be displayed directly" option in your account settings. Probably something that can be made mode visible.

do what SU did and did well. Do not become what SU became at the end. (If this makes sense)

I spent many hours on SU going thru random websites and I actually was thinking about how i missed SU last week, when i had that bored of playing games feeling.

neocities reminds me of that old internet feeling… every site there is so unique and endearing