OldWeb

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A community for anyone who misses the "old web". Inspired by a post I made asking for examples of websites with an old school vibe. This community can be used to post links to old style websites, directories of websites, etc.

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MetaFilter: The Community Weblog (www.metafilter.com)

submitted 1 year ago by RadDevon@lemmy.ml to c/oldweb@lemmy.ml

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This site has been around forever. It gained popularity for a while when the Google search algorithm had it ranking highly for a lot of terms. That went away for some unknown reason with an algorithm update, but the site is still plugging along, its users cranking out quality posts every single day.

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[–] mah@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

metafilter is not old web unfortunately. It used to be free, intelligent and fun, now it's just a neurotic censored mess, like most of the new web. It's an aging LIB website. And it's bad. It is full of toxic dynamics, americanocentrism and ultimately, it is very boring.

It's both difficult to navigate AND an echo-chamber. It's useless.