Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes

rrocketpastsix about 6 hours ago 15 commentsRead Article on theindex.fyi

I saw a comment here about how there are so many indexes of indie sites, blogs, etc but there wasn't an index of all the indexes. So I built it. It doesn't require a log in, just go browse! I've curated about 30 or so, but there is a submission form if there are ones I am missing.

Also happy to take UI improvements because I am not great in that area!

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marginalia_nu•about 1 hour ago

Why does Kagi's Smallweb have a 'no submissions' label? I was under the impression you just PR:ed here: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb

rocketpastsix•18 minutes ago

Ah I missed that, thanks! I’ve updated it

rambambram•about 2 hours ago

Don't know where your colors and style come from, but imo you're doing fine on that front.

Nice project also! Bookmarked.

In the same vein; I stumbled upon Wander (pun intended) by browsing a HN post from yesterday. I really like that take on discovery of smaller curated websites. https://codeberg.org/susam/wander#readme

tasuki•about 2 hours ago

> colors

I'm always amazed when people go through the trouble of adding a light/dark theme switcher rather than just respecting the user's system preference with `prefers-color-scheme`[0].

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...

wonger_•about 2 hours ago

You can do both, because some people like having per-site color controls.

Like I prefer to read prose and literary website content in light mode while keeping my OS in dark mode.

Admittedly it's a niche use case.

rocketpastsix•about 1 hour ago

Hey thank you! That’s awesome, I’ll take a look at Wander this afternoon

deferredgrant•about 1 hour ago

The best part is reducing dependence on algorithmic feeds. Sometimes discovery should feel like wandering, not being optimized.

freetonik•about 1 hour ago

Nice project! Thanks for including Minifeed!

paustint•about 1 hour ago

refined.blog doesn't work, goes to a GoDaddy page.

rocketpastsix•about 1 hour ago

Thanks for the heads up! I’ll check it out when I’m back from running errands

Imustaskforhelp•about 1 hour ago

Wait, is this perhaps my comment/disussion?

"Are there any indexes which index all of these too?" - (comment written by me at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069558)

I am not exactly sure if it was my comment itself which helped in it but no matter what, this is exactly what I was talking about and I am so glad that you made it!

Really awesome work! Definitely gonna add my blog site into a few of these and just gonna scroll it, ah this feels so good, i really appreciate your effort and I hope more people share even more indexes and it becomes an even more complete index of all indexes and we preserve the spirit of the open internet! This feels really good to me! :-)

rocketpastsix•16 minutes ago

The one above yours was what set me off on the path but yours helps reinforce it!

Imustaskforhelp•10 minutes ago

Ah great, well I am happy that it was within the same discussion and I am happy that I could help reinforce a positive change on the internet and so thanks for making this website because this is exactly what I wanted/wished when I had written that comment :-D

I am right now thinking of connecting all these indexes within the list as much as I can into rss files and going to hopefully tinker around with some rss with all these indexes listed within your website and this has certainly brought me a bit of hope regarding the open internet if enough people use such indexes or index of indexes :-D

snisarenko•about 2 hours ago

As the internet gets filled with AI slop, these kind of indexes of real human thought are going to become more important.

rocketpastsix•about 1 hour ago

Agreed, hopefully someone finds a fun index that they like and it leads them to a new blog or site