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Brad Enslen
Personal blog · ramblinggit.comsystemsculture
Brad Enslen's personal blog at ramblinggit.com covers systems and culture. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on the old web: personal sites, blogrolls and link pages falling out of Google's favour, and the history of GeoCities. One commenter cites a 2018 post on the topic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
Part of the problem is that their algorithm has become weighted against blogs and personal websites. > Rumors spread that large link pages (for surfing) might be considered “link farms” (and yes on SEO sites they were but these things eventually trickle down to little personal site webmasters too) so these started to be phased out. Then the worry was Blogrolls might be considered link farms so they slowly started to…
Comment linking /2018/08/when-the-social-silos-fall/
on “It seems that Google is forgetting the old web”Submitted eOS DeGoogled Privacy Smartphone in the US Review as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSomething similar [0] i found but not the one i am looking for. The one i am looking for is a replay or a comment in a forum. [0] https://ramblinggit.com/2018/05/15/the-day-google.html .
Comment linking /2018/05/15/the-day-google.html
on “Need help finding a link explaining how geocities died”