Hey w2ch, I wrote a php script for sharing sites. It uses a sqlite database. Basically, it's a big list with subcategories for different kinds of sites. To add a site, it has to not be behind Cloudflare or anubis, and must not require Javascript to access any feature. Also, imageboards are banned because weirdos are always creating new imageboard sites and then taking them down for no reason. (There's two people who LOVE doing this for some reason and have been doing it for years, but I won't name them because they need to get a life) Also Tor hidden services are banned just cause I wanna avoid the stigma. However I might revise that.
You can also add stuff that isn't http, like xmpp MUC rooms, irc, doom servers or anything that has a URI.
My motivation for making this was that I felt like there's hardly any resource for cool Web 1.0/2.0 esque websites that you can comfortably browse from a non-Firefox/Chrome browser. And also, when you setup one of these sites, it's hard to get traffic without shilling everywhere and being a nusiance.
Anyhow, is this even a good idea? I added a captcha, so it's not likely that it'll be botted, but I feel like people might not take it seriously. I was thinking about advertising it on 4chan /g/, but they're a bunch of shitheads who would probably just miss the point and call it nostalgia pandering or something.
Please tell me what you guys think. Also, apropos of nothing, I was gonna call it SiteShare but I think that name sucks so feel free to reccomend better ones.

>My motivation for making this was that I felt like there's hardly any resource for cool Web 1.0/2.0 esque websites that you can comfortably browse from a non-Firefox/Chrome browser.

You might already know about them, but here are 2 such resources:
http://wiby.me/
http://oldavista.com/

However, wiby is a search engine rather than a directory, and Old'aVista doesn't allow for new sites to be submitted, so I think your idea would fill that gap nicely

You've heard of wiby.me I'm sure, but this is probably different. Isn't this more suited for UNIX?

>>2
>You might already know about them, but here are 2 such resources:
I knew about Wiby but not Oldavista. Oldavista kinda looks like what I'm going for except I want it to be a lot more linear and spur of the moment, like every time you visit you'll see the newest sites bumped to the top of the list. Also I wanna add comments so that people can leave remarks about sites that get added.
http://world2ch.net/uploader/src/116.jpg
Here's what it looks like right now.
>>3
>Isn't this more suited for UNIX?
I'm not sure what you mean, but if you mean that it will probably draw in privacy minded people who use unixlikes then yeah.

>>4
No I meant http://piza.world2ch.net/unix/

Will Wayback Machine links be allowed? They aren't as many resources for finding those, wiby doesn't allow them for example.
Perhaps they could be segregated from the other links, or have an (archived) disclaimer beside them

>>4
>I'm not sure what you mean, but if you mean that it will probably draw in privacy minded people who use unixlikes then yeah.
The UNIX/technology board: http://piza.world2ch.net/unix/

>>6
I don't see why not, I had mostly live websites in mind but I guess there are plenty of archived sites worth bringing to people's attention. From what I recall the wayback machine doesn't play too well with no JS but for linking single pages it should be fine. It'd go into it's own category, of course.

And about Wiby, I like its goals but I kinda hate how everything has to be vetted. Like I want people to be able to submit their site and see it on the list right away so that people are encouraged to engage with the culture.

>>7
>From what I recall the wayback machine doesn't play too well with no JS

The javascript isn't inserted if you append "if_" to the date, for example: http://web.archive.org/web/20250712101129if_/https://piza.world2ch.net/lounge/
It could easily be added to the URL automatically with regex

I didn't know about that, thanks. I'll add it now

So, you're essentially creating a niche reddit-like system, but without JS, votes, and user accounts. Correct?

Maybe you could set up something like a federated link aggregator and make a heavily customized frontend to it? I'd use such a service.

An alternative to Lemmy and piefed that doesn't suck.

I did something similar on my old board, and it's really great that someone is making a site like this.
Feel free to share the link here, I'd be interested in using it.

I'm also currently working on a link sharing site which is an evolution of what I made on my old website.
Its use will probably be different from yours.
And I'm really glad I'm not the only one frustrated by the limited number of options available for finding new sites.

>>10
Not really, except in the sense that you can share links. I'm not sure if I wanna implement comments yet. I wanna make it somewhat interactive but not geared torwards anything that might make the experience negative like useless slapfights.
>>11
I'll have it done soon, I just gotta rewrite some of the more hastily written php and add some more polish. I'll post when I'm finished which will be either today or very soon.
>>12
Cool, I'll give it a look when you finish

>>4
Is this image online?

>>14
No not yet. I'm just running PHP's built in server. But I have my own VPS and domain.

>and must not require JS to access any feature
What if the JS is just used for QoL and the whole site technically functions without it?
>imageboards are banned
Welp, there goes my plans for the week! Thanks alot, nanachi!
(Okay, it's a respectable rule.)

https://eternalwinter.xmpub.org/
Ok it's up. Please enjoy, also let me know if you encounter any bugs. I did test a bunch but it's possible (read: certain) that it might still have issues.
>>16
Then it works without JS imo.
Don't worry, I might revise that rule about imageboards. It's just that people lose interest in hosting them so fast that I'm not sure if they're even worth keeping track of.

Very nice. I'll add more quality links when I remember them.

Ah, fair enough nanachi! That is a legitimate concern to have. I wonder if there's a way to automate pruning, so websites that went down for longer than a month would not be listed. (Also, what about a webring system? I could design that for you if you'd like.)
My own board isn't going to be finished any time soon either way.

>>18
Thanks for your contributions!
>>19
I was planning on adding a cron job that tests all the sites with pings and then prunes accordingly. Not sure if my VPS host would get mad at me for that though.
I wouldn't mind putting this on a webring if you're making that sort of thing.
Also I need a smarter way of pulling the favicons. I might just proxy it through a script instead of just linking to them directly.

A few suggestions:
The category field is unwieldy with some categories being topics like "Anime" and others being site formats like "Blogs". If someone wants to find sites about anime for example, they'd miss all the ones listed under "Forums", "Blogs", etc. unless they checked each of those categories and sifted through all the non-anime sites. Not a big deal now, but in the future that may be thousands of links.
I think a good solution would be to put site types and topics in separate fields, as well as adding more topics in general such as technology, art, etc.
The site could also be made more compatible with non-modern browsers by allowing non-https connections as well as not using webp for the banner image
Really great site aside from that though

>>21
Yeah I was gonna flesh out the category system next. It's terrible right now. It's a good idea to separate site formats and site topics, thanks.
I'll convert the banner to jpeg right now. My bad, I geniunely forgot that old browsers don't support it.
I'll also setup http.

Soon:
* Comment thread page for each site
* 2 categories, 1 for site format and 1 for content
* Modlog so you can see what gets deleted
* Moderation user accounts maybe? Doubt I'll need this except maybe for comments.

hmm... there are at least 3 JS-required pages on my site...

one is a page showcasing a really dead simple JS game engine and thus has a live example
one is a utility to generate feeds by hand (and is written in JS)
and the last one is a chat page (third-party service)

for the rest of the site, I regularly test that the site is usable and pleasant in the Links browser (with images disabled even)
would I be able to join, or am I too far gone lol

https://web.utako.moe/ is listed on this and that absolutely requires JS, I don't see direct stream links anywhere there lol
cool page but 100% JS

same shit with https://kara.moe/
loads of shit breaks with JS off

>>24
Not a problem, I don't mind as long as it's not the *entire* site.
A revamp of the rules is in order for sure.
>>25
Sorry, I've been busy lately.

>>24
Also, does it really work well on Links? That's great, I wasn't expecting that. I'll have to try it myself.
When I get some time I will add a huge update to the site with everything I described in >>23 .
Plus, a way of automatically checking if the site is Tor accessable, so that I don't have to vet them myself.
Due to recent life events, I've been a bit busy. すみませんです。

There is a problem(?) with the captcha for me, it doesn't look and work like it did, now the captcha is going outside the box which makes it difficult to read, maybe if the image were slightly wider?

Wow looks like some people had the same idea I did, and did it way better.
https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/Blasta
https://blasta.woodpeckersnest.eu/
https://ln.ht/
If you wanna make a site like this consider just using one of these softwares.
>>28
Fixed

>>29
this seems like a lot more hassle to use vs what you made

>>29
The other two seem okay. But that third one? First thing seen:
>How the Swedish Public Saw Israel/Palestine
Politislop detected, site rejected.

>>31
Not every opinion on issues is politislop. Key word there is slop. Anyway I don’t blame you.

>>31
Hey, I just liked the software. Linkhut is tied to a known FOSS drama mongerer who posts about himself on 4chan every day so I'm not too surprised that politics are on the first page.

Not that I think discussion of politics is even bad, neccessarily.
Anyways I am so busy right now that I have no time to program my awful PHP spagehtti code. I took my forgejo instance offline to save ram on my VPS and I will migrate it to cgit when I have time off from my j*b. Rest assured though I will work on Eternal Winter forever.

Another idea I'd like to float by you guys:
*Last Refuge (Following with the naming scheme of Eternal Winter, which I feel proud of (should I? it's not that clever now that I think of it (oh well (+ 2 2))))
*Textboard BBS where you are forced to use caps only (or all lowercase, with a theme that uses a different font), no punctuation, no words that are not in the dictionary (which one? i guess i'll figure that out later). I realized that casing in Latin script is basically just a frill that adds nothing to it these days.
*Basically, emulating the tone of Japanese & other pictoral scripts but with Latin characters.
Is this idea stupid? I'd likely use haserl and not PHP for this cause I already wrote a textboard in lua just for fun a while back. (It sucks and I deleted it)

The textboard was never public btw it was just on my PC

I only have so many sites that I can give..

>>34
It seems like it would be the theme of a board of a large BBS that does it for fun. If it is just for fun it sounds cool, I don't know about real discussion. It may not be worth the time making it.