jaredwhite

Also just throwing this out there: I run a Discord called The Spicy Web that really is about learning and building stuff with the fundamentals, even for old-timers like myself (but all the more for newbies! So much advice out there is about pulling in tons of opinionated tools and dependencies, even when you don’t need them…). At any point if you want to bounce ideas or questions off folks in real-time, check it out!

I disagree. The fundamentals of the web specs are more important than ever, and many projects don’t even need a frontend framework.

As others have mentioned, between Mastodon’s hashtag following and now Threadiverse communities, that’s all I need to feel plugged into various topics I care about. I’m not sure what more a feed algorithm could do for me.

Only “mildly” infuriating??

Wow, that story really is bonkers. Gotta admire the chutzpah I guess.

Weird that they’d bother to take the time to use an accent for “Café” but then misspell Coffee! 😅

Yeah, if something like a combination of a webring/blogroll with actually good UX (I don’t like the “which random website will I get plopped down on next?” aspect) could emerge, that would be cool.

I would generally agree with you. Bring blogging back, baby! But the question of discovery is still open. I’m optimistic about the threadiverse over the long haul in this regard, but there’s a lot of work we’ll need to do to get there. Also blogging feels daunting to the less technically-inclined still. I’m not sure the traditional blog platforms out there (Wordpress.com, etc.) are quite up to the task…they typically end up catering to more of the power-user business site use cases.