The Crowd 310: Friends

Hi Crowd! Over the weekend I saw that Nick Gray launched slashfriends in an attempt to get people to add a /friends page to their websites. The basic idea is that this is like an old school blogroll or webring, which fellow olds may remember was how we used to find interesting people on the internet before search and algohell took over. Essentially someone trusted links a few people they also trust/enjoy reading. Slashfriends (aka /f) reads the page and adds the links to the database. At worst, you can visit someones site and see a few recommendations from them, at best you can go to /f and click “take me to a random page” and get teleported to the personal website of someone you might not know, but someone you know might know. It’s pretty fun. In Nick’s initial announcement he said ideally link to people’s personal sites, but as a fallback social media or whatever could work too. For my implementation I didn’t think a list of social media or substack accounts was really interesting,…