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A wave of activity around indie web and personal blogs highlights renewed emphasis on discoverability, portability, and independent voices. A newly curated “index of indexes” aggregates some 30–39 directories, aggregators, search tools and clubs to make small, noncommercial sites easier to find and link. Parallel moves include bloggers migrating feeds and asking subscribers to update endpoints, underscoring the importance of feed portability and aggregator maintenance. Meanwhile, a Hacker News popularity analysis for 2025 spotlights which personal blogs drew the most attention, showing that independent authors still shape developer discourse. Together these stories point to a resilient, decentralized web ecosystem focused on lightweight sites, better indexing, and sustained influence.
Indie web revival signals opportunities for tech professionals to reach audiences outside platform silos and to prioritize interoperable feeds and discoverability. Understanding portability and indexing practices helps engineers build resilient publishing and aggregation tools.
Dossier last updated: 2026-05-13 17:51:14
A maintained “index of indexes” catalogs 39 indie web and personal blog directories across six categories, providing a one-stop meta-directory for discovering and submitting independent sites. Key entries include curated directories (Blogosphere, Blogroll Club, PersonalSit.es), RSS and feed aggregators (RSS.Social, indieblog.page), search engines for the small web (Kagi Small Web, Wiby), random discovery tools (Blog of the Day, The Forest), constraint-based clubs for minimal sites (1MB Club, no-js.club), and IndieWeb infrastructure (IndieWeb Directory, IndieWeb Webring). This matters for developers, content creators, and researchers interested in decentralized web ecosystems, indie publishing, discoverability, and lightweight web design, making it easier to find, index, and link to small, non-commercial sites.
I saw a comment here about how there are so many indexes of indie sites, blogs, etc but there wasn't an index of all the indexes. So I built it. It doesn't require a log in, just go browse! I've curated about 30 or so, but there is a submission form if there are ones I am missing.<p>Also happy to take UI improvements because I am not great in that area!
Blogger mjg59 announced they will no longer post on the current platform and are moving their updates to a new site at https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/. The post asks readers who subscribe directly to their feed to update their subscriptions to the new location. It also notes that most “Planets” (community feed aggregators) should already be updated, and that an MR (merge request) is open for Planet GNOME to update the feed there as well. No additional details are provided about the reasons for the move or any timeline beyond the immediate request to change feed URLs. The announcement matters mainly for followers and aggregator maintainers who rely on the old feed endpoint.
The article reveals which individual bloggers attracted the most attention on Hacker News in 2025, using a methodology that counts personal sites rather than company or team blogs. It links to a visualization of cumulative popularity and explains who qualifies as a blogger—highlighting cases like John Graham-Cumming, whose personal jgc.org posts are included but Cloudflare’s company blog is excluded. The piece provides a methodology page and domain-specific links so readers can inspect rankings and the underlying criteria. This matters to the tech community because Hacker News influence reflects which independent voices, ideas, and technical commentary resonated with developers, founders, and technologists during 2025. It’s useful for tracking trends, reputations, and attention within the startup and developer ecosystem.