What are your favorite sites you visit daily, besides Lemmy?
I just gotta say… we need to bring back those 90s pages that just had a bunch of links
I miss Fark :(
Yucata.de - online boardgames
I usually play 1 move a day in 7-8 boardgames with people all around the world.
Hacker News
SkimFeed
Ground NewsThe rest is all RSS feeds.
I’ve been wanting to get back into rss feeds. Have a good feeder? Reader? Compiler? What are the clients even called? I’m drawing a blank…
I currently use Inoreader, and I could register most sites I visit directly into it.
Https://Rockpapershotgun.com is one of the few sites I still visit on a frequent basis. I don’t care about half of their reviews. Their writing and personality is just entertaining and the commenters are fun.
As a developer, I love https://js13kgames.com/. These masters of JS make games that are under 13k, smaller than font file!
This blog has been my late night addiction. https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/ reviews old PC RPG games like Wizardry and Eye of the Beholder. Theyve been doing it for more than a decade.
Blackgate.com - the remnants of Black Gate magazine, which was published from 2000-2011 and then continued in digital form since. It focuses primarily on vintage literary fantasy, though occasionally the an article will be published in films or new fiction. Of particular note to nerds is the Cinema of Swords column by Lawrence Ellsworth, who fantasy fans may be familiar with as the Principal Narrative Designer for Baldur’s Gate 3. I’m not so immersed in the fantasy world that I understand most of what is discussed on the blog, but it is a nice taste of the old Internet, one which might resonate with other fediverse users.
Here’s a few! While I mostly use the RSS feeds from these sites, I often read the web versions too:
- Hack a Day, wonderful place to get clued into ground-up explorations of technical topics from the outside
- BBC News, good for a world perspective that’s not fully US-centric but still in English
- OSNews, Operating System news for nerds like me who get legitimately excited for things like installing plan9 on bare metal
- Ken Shirrif’s Blog, the paragon of long-form teardown & explanation of vintage electronics, deeply insightful, terrifyingly technical but still approachable. Okay, not a daily update, but worth the wait
- Create Digital Music, solid and considered electronic music instrument news and articles, for us unreformed synthesizer geeks
Royalroad.com Archiveofourown.org
I visit both hourly, and spend the vast majority of my time reading books on those two sites.
I’m not familiar with either. Taking a quick glance, Archive of Our Own is for fanfics, and Royal Road is for original web serials?
EDIT: No, Royal Road has some fanfics too.
Royal road has some fanfics, but not many. Most fanfics on Royal road are either pokémon or cyberpunk, at least the popular ones.
Along the same lines, I’ve been reading short SF stories here to get away from social media: https://www.freesfonline.net/NewAdditions.html
Now this, this is a website.
I was about to agree, but they fucking disabled reader mode! No dark mode is no bueno for me.
Reader mode works fine for me
Very nice!