Where have all the websites gone?

I came across this good blog post on Hacker News this morning, from Jason Velazquez at his blog, From Jason - Where have all the websites gone?

This is something I've noticed recently - from everything being a social network or App, to search results being just 'worse' and to helpful and interesting information being locked up within overly long videos. The internet is just worse.

And Jason is right, the internet hasn't changed, the websites are still there, we just can't easily find them anymore.

So, taking a page from Jason - here are my favorite and regularly visited websites:

• Wellingtonista Blog
• Eyeofthefish - a blog about Wellington’s urban environment
• The Spinoff - Aotearoa independent media
• Pinball spots - Simon's Wellington based Pinball blog
• Wellington City Libraries blog
• 99percentinvisible Podcast and blog on architecture and design
• DC Rainmaker blog on sport and fitness tech
• Hacker news - tech focused link aggregator

If you have a blog, post your favorite and often visited blogs

Since writing this, I've leaned into the personal-web idea myself: I rebuilt this site to be simpler and fully my own, and connected it to the fediverse so it isn't locked inside any one platform.