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This is reminiscent of StumbleUpon, which I used to spend hours on finding interesting sites in the aughts. Reddit later filled that void, but it was always a good time stumbling upon some obscure gem of a site.

Now it's some app abomination, but I still think there's a place for such a service.



Thanks. I loved that site. Modern-day generative art tools like MJ inspire the same sense of exploration, anticipation & inspiration.

On-topic: I'm starting to see a trend. Digg was big before Reddit. VC-imposed 2010 "upgrades" ruined Digg's simple interface and 60% fled to Reddit (as did I). StumbleUpon had it's own redesign disaster in 2011. Both replace a simple, fast, efficient interface, ideal for content consumption, with "design" and room for advertising.

Reddit made the same mistake in 2018, but was smart enough to retain old.reddit.com Third party reddit apps saved it from a swift demise, but the API charges and associated forced closure of "competitors" must have had a detrimental effect on their traffic as well.

What's next?


Stumbleupon literally built me as a person. All of my hobbies besides programming (came from Runescape, that classmates showed me) come from forums etc. Stumbleupon showed me, like conlangs via Tolkien's languages.


I loved StumbleUpon.




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