- > Weird is a brand new thing, but: Think of it as if WordPress and Notion had a Linktree-shaped baby. That is to say, a WordPress-type website engine with the editing experience of Notion and the simplicity of Linktree.
How many people that understand that, need this?
- Pretty formalized for being weird. But I think the most important thing for human beings continuing to have websites (and so weird websites) is to keep HTTP/1.1 and HTTP+HTTPS alive. Without those thing websites are just too fragile for humans to keep going more than a few years. Whereas with those things websites have indefinite lifespans even unmantained. I know the pieces fit, because I watched them fall away: http://superkuh.com/the-pieces-fit.html (a wierd web page). HTTP+HTTPS does work for human person use cases. Even if the profit-seeking corps and institutions want it gone because it doesn't fit theirs.
WEIRD is okay, and a fine start, but using someone else's service does not usually lead to creativity or weird. Just look how weird the early web was when everyone just did their own thing.
by duncancarroll
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- There are a lot of weird comments in this thread but to me this looks like a cool, genuine project which has an obvious need; I don't think the vibes are off at all.
Given that lately I can't even be bothered to write Markdown for my static site I'm looking forward to giving this a try this weekend.
by erlend_sh
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- Hey, one of the two cofounders here. Very cool to see Weird on HN, although we had purposefully refrained from posting it ourselves yet since it’s still baking.
Weird is essentially gonna be ported over to being the static, persona-first extension of Roomy: https://blog.muni.town/chatty-community-gardens/
by seafoamteal
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- Seems cool, but overloading the term agentic development is a risky play. I almost clicked away when I saw that because, my opinions about LLMs for development aside, I do not want them anywhere near my blog, because that's where I want my own voice to come through strongest.
That aside, this looks really cool and I wish you all the best!
(addressing erlend_sh because I saw them in the thread)
by rambambram
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- Cool idea! Especially curious about the 'federated webring'-thing. With Hey Homepage (link in bio) I do something similar, but I call it 'Shared Links' and it's connected to the built-in RSS reader.
RSS is great, but together with OPML it has even more potential. Easily share bookmarks and RSS sources, easily 'retweet' interesting articles on my own timeline, easily 'subscribe' to new feeds, etc.
I'm slowly eating my own dogfood and slowly moving towards only using the real social media; the open web. It's hard, with HN and Youtube around, but I have trust in my own algorithm. Getting my info diet from around 1400 RSS sources, filtered by random request to feeds, so no violations of other websites' resources and doomscrolling isn't even possible. Really interesting sources get automatically checked by the newspaper functionality.
I see more untapped potential for RSS in combination with OPML. First I need to get completely rid of the idea that my software product needs to be for the masses. It's just not going to happen that the majority of the people are going to do more than tap an app and swipe for instant gratification, and that's okay. I'm also not willing to look down on how the masses use computing and the internet, as I see a lot of people do on HN (talking about 'the regular user' as if it's not your neighbor or your friend), so I want to make the onboarding and usage as welcome as possible. To me, that's still the true spirit of the open web.
by imaginationra
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- Still feels too much like Web 2.0 soulless template based sites- https://mmm.page/ is much better for unique human made sites- especially if you use the drawing tools.
- I think I like the idea, but I have to ask a favor: Please stop the animated banner text!
I'm getting tired of how many web developers don't realize that endless, unstoppable animation is a huge accessibility issue. My brain apparently has some deep programming to follow anything that moves, so I can't actually read anything about the project without straining my brain. For reference, I'm autistic. Many neurodivergent people have similar issues. So, unintentionally, you're excluding people that might enjoy this.
- This is fine, basically geocities. But you may have a hard time introducing the term "agentic" at a time when AI "agents" are on the rise.
- So is this like Carrd? Not quite getting it after reading through the website...
- Its giving me "hatch" vibes which my son and I used until it shut down a month or two ago =-/
by dudefeliciano
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- wanted to create a profile but am getting a 500 error on this page https://weird.one/login
- Oof, I want to be supportive, but the landing page has that "SaaS product" look and mentions of Notion and Linktree tells me their target audience is the budding generation of "content creators" shilling Notion templates and Substacks. Not very weird.
- nice to see "Open Social" on the roadmap (found on GitHub), presumably activityPub support?
- Cool project, but I can't understand why they created their own protocol rather than just building this on ActivityPub
- This gives me a geocities vibe.
by ninalanyon
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- Offline editing?
- very little weird about it
- The fact that they're trying to cop "smallweb" vibes while being incredibly soulless and flat at the same time is making me. so frustrated. This isn't "weird" in the alt sense, this is "weird" like how you would describe JD Vance.
Hillary Clinton is actively diving her head into her elbow-pit, and we cannot stop her. We can only watch in horror as she destroys the fabric of our universe and merges all that was once "cool" and "hip" into the conglomerate apathetic mainstream.
- i immediately stop reading any article when I see the word "interwebs".
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