Mastodawn

One of the first pages I look for when I visit a personal website is "Links". A good links page is like a web directory without being a web directory. It's amazing what you can find there. The web is fucking amazing!

🤔 Maybe I should add a section to my own links page called "Other poeple's links pages". That could be fun. I think I'll actually do that.

#personalWebsite #personalWeb #smallWeb #indieWeb

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shellsharks

@theresmiling Gold mines f’sure! I like to think most of my blog posts are link pages given how much I tend to link during my writing process. I also have a lot of lot of pages on my site that tend to be lists of links to other things too, not just inline linking. For example, I have this link dump of other sites link dumps https://shellsharks.com/link-dumps 🤭. I also have think like a blogroll and a bookmarks page 😎

- https://shellsharks.com/blogroll
- https://shellsharks.com/bookmarks

Links are pretty great 🥳

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Elena. (she/ her)11h ago

@shellsharks A link dump of links dumps. 🤩 I'm bookmarking that page - and maybe even link to it if (when) I make my list of links to links pages. 🤓

Going through the link dumps you link to is great. There are so many different ways to do them as there are people who do it. Which was helpful to see. Because up to this point I didn't think I wanted to do link dumps myself. Because my blog is hand coded HTML with no database or something like that in the background, and therefore I don't have tags (and wouldn't want them anyway), I thought that they would just vanish with time in the depth of my blog archive. But I could have an extra page where I collect the links to all the dumps. 💡
I still don't know if I want to do link dumps in the future, but at least that problem is solved now.