[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":359},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-30047455":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":43,"post_text":45,"what":46,"said":78,"maker_in_thread":179,"shape":191,"grid":195,"attempts":320,"same_week":321,"maker_shows":44,"maker_hidden":351,"reader_version":352,"card":353},"30047455","Marginalia","Exploration Mode","title","Show HN: Marginalia – Exploration Mode","https:\u002F\u002Fsearch.marginalia.nu\u002Fexplore\u002Frandom","search.marginalia.nu","marginalia_nu",1642955353,2022,236,53,210,2570,9,"notable","consumer_social","web discovery","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"random website browsing","small web","search engine","website discovery","mixed",0.257,{"positive":31,"neutral":18,"mixed":32,"critical":33},13,1,5,28,{"docs":36,"idea":38,"performance":39,"design":41,"execution":42},{"positive":37,"critical":37},0,{"positive":18,"critical":37},{"positive":37,"critical":40},2,{"positive":32,"critical":32},{"positive":37,"critical":40},[44,37,33,37,37,33,44,33,37,37,37,37,37,37,33,33,44,33,44,33,32,44,37,32,44,44,37,33,33,44,44,37,33,33,44,37,44,37,32,32],3,"I've been a bit obsessed with the idea of flipping through the internet a bit like you would a magazine, of undirected browsing as a discovery mechanism, and I think I'm approaching something that's beginning to feel pretty fun.\n\nThe link at the top will return results out of a pool of approximately 10,000 domains, you can refresh to get new ones. You can also explore in a directed fashion by using the 'Similar Domains'-buttons. These are not random.\n\nA sampler, beyond the random sites offered with the head link\n\nhttps:\u002F\u002Fsearch.marginalia.nu\u002Fexplore\u002Fwww.amiga-news.de\n\nhttps:\u002F\u002Fsearch.marginalia",{"problem":47,"audience":56,"pricing":69,"motivation":70,"time_to_build":69,"stack":74,"openness":75,"stage":76,"team_size":77},{"value":48,"source":49,"evidence":50},"Undirected discovery of websites, instead of search-driven or algorithmic recommendation","maker",[51,53],{"id":52},"post",{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},"30048271","I do think a lot of recommendation algorithms these days are bit too good at finding things that are similar to what we like. Which means you never discover things that you'll…",{"value":57,"source":58,"evidence":59},"People who want to browse the internet like a magazine and find quirky sites","inferred",[60,61,65],{"id":52},{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},"30048189","marsa","> undirected browsing as a discovery mechanism this seems to be a thoroughly underrated way of discovery and it's so disappointing when websites focus solely on search, forcing…",{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},"30049383","broahmed","This is really cool. I have 7 tabs of quirky barely known websites open after maybe less than 5 minutes of interacting with Marginalia. This is so much fun!",null,{"value":71,"source":49,"evidence":72},"Fascination with undirected browsing as a discovery mechanism",[73],{"id":52},[],"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":79,"objections":112,"requests":131,"questions":150,"alternatives":162},[80,97],{"value":81,"source":82,"evidence":83},"Fun, nostalgic way to find quirky small-web sites","commenter",[84,88,89,93],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},"30048230","gillesjacobs","You posted on related topics a few weeks back with your Marginalia projects and I spent an hour browsing your sites. Making the \"small web\" and its creative weirdness visible…",{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"30050082","laputan_machine","This is really cool, it's like being back in 1998 again when browsing the internet was exciting, bookmarked! I'll be exploring this for a while I think",{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"30049453","joebob42","It's gem after gem after gem, this is brilliant",{"value":98,"source":82,"evidence":99},"Evokes StumbleUpon and channel surfing",[100,104,108],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"30048257","ancientsofmumu","This feels like what StumbleUpon was (a positive correlation :) ) -- would you be willing to add what criteria \"similar\" is based on in the info box upper left? For example I…",{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"30050488","ncpa-cpl","> browsing through these random sites you list is indeed a very fun -- and liberating -- experience. thank you for putting this together! Yeah! I really liked the concept too.…",{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"30050710","MayeulC","It's awesome! I like most suggestions, it feels a bit like https:\u002F\u002Fwiby.me\u002Fsurprise but generally less weird. I've often wanted to have a go at making my own search engine, and I…",[113,124],{"value":114,"source":82,"evidence":115},"Preview screenshots often do not match the linked pages",[116,120],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"30054452","ComodoHacker","At three of the four links I've clicked the page doesn't match preview at all. How often do you update previews?",{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"30050637","gbuk2013","I don’t get it - I clicked on about 10 sites and none of them look anything like the screenshot picture?",{"value":125,"source":82,"evidence":126},"Cloudflare DDoS protection delays access",[127],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"30047710","was_a_dev","I almost kinda didn't bother because of the cloudflare DDoS protection. I know that can be petty, but I wouldn't have waited if it was from a Google results page for example.",[132,136,143],{"value":133,"source":82,"evidence":134},"Explain the criteria used for 'similar' domains",[135],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},{"value":137,"source":82,"evidence":138},"Support for Gemini, Gopher and other protocols",[139],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"30049776","1vuio0pswjnm7","The \u003Ch1> banner is \"Search the internet\" but are we only searching www servers. Can we use marginalia.nu to search for servers offering other protocols like ftp.",{"value":144,"source":82,"evidence":145},"Centered layout instead of left-aligned",[146],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"30049037","arendtio","Feels pretty cool, more like the traditional internet. After a few minutes I found, that I would prefer a page that is not left-aligned, something like ``` #article { margin: 0…",[151,158],{"value":152,"source":82,"evidence":153},"Will the source code be shared?",[154],{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"30058399","20after4","A couple of questions: 1. Are you accepting collaborators? 2. do you have any plans to share the source? I'd love to contribute somehow, either a) by donating some of my time and…",{"value":159,"source":82,"evidence":160},"Does it handle non-English sites?",[161],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},[163,168,175],{"value":164,"source":82,"evidence":165},"StumbleUpon",[166,167],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},{"value":169,"source":82,"evidence":170},"Delicious Bookmarks",[171],{"id":172,"by":173,"text":174},"30052518","webmaven","> This feels like what StumbleUpon was (a positive correlation :) Also like Delicious Bookmarks in it's heyday.",{"value":176,"source":82,"evidence":177},"wiby.me surprise",[178],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},{"comments":180,"answered":18,"key":181},17,[182,185,188],{"id":183,"text":184},"30048323","It's mostly adjacency in the link graph. I use a mix of direct neighbors and Personalized PageRank to produce the list.",{"id":186,"text":187},"30052709","Yeah, there was a lot of these discovery services back in the day. 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