alt Hacker NewsWander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web
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Very cool. Reminds me of stumbleupon, which I lost many hours to back in the day.
Curated discovery is one of biggest gripes with modern platforms like youtube - discovering something truly new and outside of your normal interests is really difficult, and the same goes for the web. If you have a topic you want to explore it's fine, but finding random things you'd never have thought of yourself is much harder.
I love this as a concept. The wander button is great, but it still needs some curating to decide what pages you like, and getting to the actual content. I guess I'd like to know the workflow moving forward? Just re-download the repo every couple weeks, and diff to see what new sites are on the list?
I want to like it, but I don't fully understand why one wouldn't just put a bunch of links on a /wander page and maybe randomize the order?
We're inventing stumbleupon from first principles.
Have you considered including Gemini and gopher support? There is a very nice small web community there.
It includes only 17 URLs: https://susam.net/wander/wander.js
Love this, but I need it to allow me to break the frame. I found some neat sites, but I need a button to open them in a new tab, frame-free, if I want to.
Seems like a perfect addition to any links page.
Would it be possible to create a list of sites with a Wander?
So, is this a meta-webring, that allows for showing individual sites but also sites that show other sites?
Awesome it’s hosted on codeberg too
Oh, that's neat. I think to really understand it though I'll have to explore it and experiment with hosting my own Console.
This is really cool, I think the idea here is fantastic!
this is more nuanced than the title suggests. worth reading the whole thing
This will get really fun when influencers get a hold of the idea and start connecting themselves into the Wander community.
So like StumbleUpon
It would be cool if the javascript were re-written a bit to only use standard long existing javascript features so one didn't have to run a modern corporate browser to use the "wander" functionality. It did not work in my browser even with JS enabled.
This is actually pretty cool. Once I have my own personal webpage, I may even add this tool to it.
It is a project I keep postponing lol
Delightful!
Looks cool. Good job!
I don't know how useful this is, but I am getting tired of Google and co ruining the world wide web how it once was. Something has to be done. I have no idea whether this here can be of help or not but the more people think about this, the better. Otherwise the quality will continue to degrade.
Cool idea - it’s like a recommended set of links, but integrated into an interface like stumble upon or Kagi’s small web browser
love it!
Ahhh... this is like my OneRandomSite.com from... 2006 or so... nice.
I think we need things like this. To be reintroduced over and over.
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Tangent but wow codeberg is not blocked by the Great Firewall?
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Hello HN!
This tool is inspired by Kagi Small Web (recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410542). A common concern raised here is that Kagi Small Web currently accepts only blogs, comics and YouTube channels. It does not accept arbitrary small websites. That limitation motivated me to build Wander.
Wander is fully decentralised. Anyone can host it on their own website. It consists of just two files: an `index.html` for the Wander console and a `wander.js` where you link to other Wander consoles. It is a bit like a webring, but more flexible. Each console can link to any number of sites and other consoles.
There is no server-side code, no database, nothing to install. If you have a website, you can set it up by uploading just two files. In fact, you can host it on GitHub Pages or Codeberg Pages too.
If you like the idea, please join the network. I would love to see it grow.
More details about how it works and how to set it up here: https://codeberg.org/susam/wander#readme