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All these phrases depend on the context. Small is a terrible choice of word for the Aral meaning: he's small means strictly indipendent websites. For others, like that essay, the small web is means those websites that had basically fallen of Google - either buried too deep, on page X (X > 10), or literally not indexed any more, because there was no update for a decade. (Not that there's anything to update on, say, the welsh slate indus
petermolnar
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2020-08-25 12:19
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the interesting bit is that what Aral's Small Web described should be called non-profit web; the small web the essay from Parimal describes is oldschool (?) web, and the two are very different thoughts.
petermolnar
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2020-08-25 12:00
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but then I'd say that penmorfa example is just an indie web site (tbc not IndieWeb), not small web, so obviously we're back to "different people use these terms differently" 😄
[Murray]
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2020-08-25 11:55
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I'd say things like subreddits and FB groups are seeking a similar solution, but it feels like a common trend in groups that consider themselves part of the "small web" is that ability to only be reached by those that know the way, so the discovery/reach of silos like FB/Reddit automatically makes them feel too available
[Murray]
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2020-08-25 11:54
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do those count as "small web"?
KartikPrabhu
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2020-08-25 11:52
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^ I think that focus on a specific interest rings true to me, particularly in terms of the discussions I've had with people interested in the "small web". Seems to be a desire to create open but "hidden" corners of the web that focus on a specific area of interest
[Murray]
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2020-08-25 11:51
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on my personal tone, it's The Old Web: small sites, mainly focused around personal or group (forum) interest. The cruft is secondary; a flash site used to be able to fit this just as well as a pure xhtml-strict 1.0
petermolnar
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2020-08-25 11:50
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I think that the “small web” refers more to taking websites back to their basics: HTML, CSS, JavaScript. “The web before the cruft” is now I think about it.
[James_Gallaghe]
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2020-08-25 11:46
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re small web: I'd say aral already borrowed the term, probably from https://neustadt.fr/essays/the-small-web/
petermolnar
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2020-08-25 11:21
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It looks like we don't have a page for "small web" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "small web is ____", a sentence describing the term)
Loqi
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2020-08-25 09:27