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suboptimalism
Personal blog · suboptimalism.neocities.org/optimalism/postsculturewriting
suboptimalism is a personal blog at suboptimalism.neocities.org about culture and writing. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “What Happened to Yesterweb?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's essays on the 'yesterweb' and the old, personal web when discussing webrings, search decline and online community. Its goal-setting post is also linked.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- What Happened to Yesterweb?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-08
What Hacker News says?
https://suboptimalism.neocities.org/optimalism/posts/shock-c...
Comment linking /optimalism/posts/shock-collar-productivity/
on “Putting Bounties on My Goals”Submitted DynaVR Paul, Killed in His Labyrinth [Satire] as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> How about a web ring? A manifesto? A good name for it, or several? Yup, doesn't work either: https://suboptimalism.neocities.org/writings/yesterweb
Comment linking /writings/yesterweb
on “Splitting the Web”Submitted What Happened to Yesterweb? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYesterweb? Sure, consider reading these: > https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/yesterweb.html > https://suboptimalism.neocities.org/writings/yesterweb > https://voicedrew.xyz/articles/yesterweb-requiem.html
Comment linking /writings/yesterweb
on “Why there is no effort to bring webrings back as search quality has declined?”