Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web

susam

Hello HN! This tool is inspired by Kagi Small Web (recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410542 ). A common concern raised here is that Kagi Small Web currently accepts only blogs, comics and YouTube channels. It does not accept arbitrary small websites. That limitation motivated me to build Wander. Wander is fully decentralised. Anyone can host it on their own website. It consists of just two files: an `index.html` for the Wander console and a `wander.js` where you link to other Wander consoles. It is a bit like a webring, but more flexible. Each console can link to any number of sites and other consoles. There is no server-side code, no database, nothing to install. If you have a website, you can set it up by uploading just two files. In fact, you can host it on GitHub Pages or Codeberg Pages too. If you like the idea, please join the network. I would love to see it grow. More details about how it works and how to set it up here: https://codeberg.org/susam/wander#readme

bovermyer

Oh, that's neat. I think to really understand it though I'll have to explore it and experiment with hosting my own Console.

pbronez

Cool idea - it’s like a recommended set of links, but integrated into an interface like stumble upon or Kagi’s small web browser

deanebarker

Love this, but I need it to allow me to break the frame. I found some neat sites, but I need a button to open them in a new tab, frame-free, if I want to.

moebrowne

It includes only 17 URLs: https://susam.net/wander/wander.js

warkdarrior

This will get really fun when influencers get a hold of the idea and start connecting themselves into the Wander community.

weedhopper

Awesome it’s hosted on codeberg too

Babkock

Looks cool. Good job!

surgical_fire

This is actually pretty cool. Once I have my own personal webpage, I may even add this tool to it. It is a project I keep postponing lol

dgb23

I want to like it, but I don't fully understand why one wouldn't just put a bunch of links on a /wander page and maybe randomize the order?

desireco42

Ahhh... this is like my OneRandomSite.com from... 2006 or so... nice. I think we need things like this. To be reintroduced over and over.

punknight

I love this as a concept. The wander button is great, but it still needs some curating to decide what pages you like, and getting to the actual content. I guess I'd like to know the workflow moving forward? Just re-download the repo every couple weeks, and diff to see what new sites are on the list?

dreko

This is really cool, I think the idea here is fantastic!

ab_testing

So like StumbleUpon

shevy-java

I don't know how useful this is, but I am getting tired of Google and co ruining the world wide web how it once was. Something has to be done. I have no idea whether this here can be of help or not but the more people think about this, the better. Otherwise the quality will continue to degrade.

bovermyer

So, is this a meta-webring, that allows for showing individual sites but also sites that show other sites?

xnorswap

So is this web rings all over again?

pacoWebConsult

We're inventing stumbleupon from first principles.

thenthenthen

Tangent but wow codeberg is not blocked by the Great Firewall?

vydd

Delightful!