PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget I am a big fan of bubbles.town, a relatively new website to make it easier to discover the indieweb of personal blogs. Sounds familiar? I run indieblog.page where the idea is that you can discover new blogs one random post at a time. Bubble's approach is a different one. Instead of showing you random posts, they want to “bubble up” the best posts by user votes, similar to what Reddit or Hackernews do. However unlike on those sites, the posts are not user submitted but automatically imported via RSS (Incidentally bubbles.town was seeded in part with data from indieblog.page). A big issue with this approach is that their "New" page is basically a firehose of all blog posts - the more blogs are added to the site, the faster the new feed will update. That makes it harder to discover posts that are a few days old and these posts then miss their chance to be seen and upvoted. One solution is to make bubbles votes visible through other means. So why not utilize…
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