Comment by susam

My recent project named 'Wander Console' has gathered a growing community of independent website owners who host the console tool on their websites. You can try it out here: https://susam.net/wander/

It is a small, decentralised, self-hosted web console that lets visitors to your website explore interesting websites and pages recommended by a community of independent personal website owners. It is a bit like StumbleUpon, but fully decentralised. See here for more details: https://codeberg.org/susam/wander

Since I announced it six weeks ago, many people have copied this tool to their websites. This has helped the community grow and made the network richer with plenty of good web page recommendations from the small web of personal websites.

I recently developed a crawler to find out how many consoles are there. While it is difficult to determine exactly how many people have set up Wander Console on their websites due to the decentralised nature of the tool, the crawler found over 50 consoles recommending more than 1,400 web pages: https://susam.codeberg.page/wcn/

Creating personal websites, browsing others, viewing their source and learning from them have been an important part of growing up for me, so it brings me great joy to have contributed to this ecosystem with my own small project. I am especially glad that others like me have found it interesting and that a community has formed around it.