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31 positive, 55 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 21 critical, out of 108 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Execution: 0 for, 16 againstIdea: 13 for, 0 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Useful way to find and follow HN users' blogs
From 3 comments
Clap clap clap. This is excellent public service @deathbypenguim. Yesterday I was scrolling through that enormous thread and using control+F to look for keywords of interest on…
ghomem on HNThanks for this! It'll make finding everything posted in that thread much easier, and the random blog button has already sent me down a few rabbit holes (even if I don't…
OliveMate on HNI saved that original link in the hopes of going through it but this is much better. But this is much better. Saving this instead.
stoyko on HN
Random blog button is fun for discovery
From 2 comments
Love this, have been reading random blogs for the last 30minuts already
alonsonic on HN+1 I would even add a “I’m feeling lucky” button, to redirect to a random blog ;)
scastiel on HN
Feed and OPML additions make it practical
From 3 comments
Nice list! I was almost going to ask you if you have an OPML file with all the feeds, but then I decided to check the list manually for interesting latest posts and grab only…
rambambram on HNThis is great. An OPML version of this would be great to bulk IMPORT the RSS/ATOM feeds into your favorite feed reading app.
leejoramo on HNHeres an OPML with all the feeds I could detect from the list! https://gist.github.com/Josh-Tucker/030b8cba6557927a27f1c7e6da56a17f
JSTucker on HN
Objections
Missing blogs that were posted in the thread
From 3 comments
Hmm. Any idea why some wouldn't show up? I posted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36588940 but don't see it in the list.
abathur on HNWeird. I added to that original post, but I'm not on your list. Maybe your code didn't go to the "See more comments" page?
alfiedotwtf on HNHmm, my blog wasn't added. Maybe when the data was scraped I hadn't posted it yet?
b8 on HN
Wrong or broken RSS feeds and unicode rendering
From 3 comments
Neat! It looks like something is broken with unicode handling? For example the "smart" apostrophe in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36594375 (U+2019, RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION…
jefftk on HNIt seems the autodiscovery didn't work for my blog (link in profile). I've posted something 2 days ago but it doesn't appear on your site. My feed is on the list from JSTucker,…
darekkay on HNIs there a way to change my feed. You picked up my podcast feed, not the blog one. It should be https://loufranco.com/feed
loumf on HN
Name sounds like bog roll
From 2 comments
Good project, but I've always hated the word "blogroll". It's a pun on "bog roll", like toilet paper, isn't it?
grozzle on HNSounds a little too close to "bog roll".
sublinear on HN
Requests
Add a way to submit or update blogs
From 3 comments
Naked self-promotion here, but I was late to the party on the original blogroll -- is there any way to add blogs post-ex-facto? Is there a submission mechanism?
1attice on HNInstead of making it static could you implement a submission process and liveliness checker? This seems like a really cool way to share content with each other.
kodah on HNNeeds sorting by last post date and a way to add new blogs.
guy98238710 on HN
Sort by latest post date or karma
From 3 comments
Having the latest post of each blog available is an awesome, thank you for adding it. Another killer feature on top would be to sort for latest post, so they can be ordered by…
voigt on HNProbably better to sort by karma by default though, otherwise it's alphabetical privilege all over again lol https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ905588
zrkrlc on HNNeeds sorting by last post date and a way to add new blogs.
guy98238710 on HN
Shuffle or random blog button
From 1 comment
I would add a shuffle button that opens a random blog so it’s nicer to discover something new compared to endless paginations.
syx on HN
Combined RSS or OPML feed
From 2 comments
Would be cool to make an RSS feed that combined all the RSS feeds from all the blogs.
victorbjorklund on HNThis is great. An OPML version of this would be great to bulk IMPORT the RSS/ATOM feeds into your favorite feed reading app.
leejoramo on HN
Questions
Is the list live and how often does it update
From 2 comments
Is This live? Will it update accordingly when new posts are made? Also it would be cool to share the OPML list of all these feeds..
rmdes on HNThanks for creating this. I will use this to go through people's blogs. I think my blog/journals hasn't been picked up yet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36588927 My blog…
samsquire on HN
What criteria were used to filter blogs
From 1 comment
Can you say what criteria you used to filter the thread into valid blogs?
version_five on HN
Alternatives named
webloglist.com HN blog aggregator
From 1 comment
The latest posts from these blogs: https://webloglist.com/hn
amadeuspagel on HN
indieblog.page
From 1 comment
That's what https://indieblog.page was made for
splitbrain on HN
blogs.hn
From 1 comment
I just made something similar! https://blogs.hn
surprisetalk on HN
Web rings and Planet feed aggregators
From 2 comments
This made me think of "planets", which I feel had a heyday back in the late 2000s before Reddit and social media took over everything. Anyone want to take all the blogs with…
re on HNWe reinvented web rings!
AndrewKemendo on HN