The navigation layer for the off-platform zone: how to find the small web without a feed deciding for you.

Directories of personal sites #

• Ye Olde Blogroll — humanly curated directory of ~1,300 personal blogs
• ooh.directory — Yahoo-style taxonomy of 2,300+ blogs, browsable by topic
• PersonalSit.es — gallery of ~1,100 personal sites with a random-site button
• BlogScroll — open, GitHub-hosted directory by category, with RSS/OPML
• blogs.hn — indie tech/personal blogs surfaced via Hacker News activity
• Neocities Browse — the Neocities universe, sortable by random/tag/recently updated
• Indieseek.xyz — human-curated directory of Web1-era and revival sites, with a “Stumblizer” random tool
• The Index — a meta-index: a directory of ~40 small-web directories (the actual blogroll of blogrolls)

Non-commercial search #

• Marginalia Search — independent crawler that prioritizes non-commercial, text-heavy sites (moved from search.marginalia.nu)
• Wiby — search engine for the classic web, community-submitted pages
• SearchMySite — searches only user-submitted, moderated personal sites
• Mojeek — independent index, no tracking, no reliance on Google/Bing

Random discovery & webrings #

• indieblog.page — one button, one random post from a personal IndieWeb blog
• The Forest — a random walk through submitted sites
• CloudHiker — StumbleUpon spiritual successor, ~30,000 manually reviewed sites
• IndieWeb Webring — 🕸💍.ws, the webring for IndieWeb sites

The lightweight web #

• 512KB Club — sites under 512KB, tiered by weight
• 1MB Club — pages under 1MB
• 250KB Club — the strictest tier, reviewed weekly

Feeds & newsletters #

• IndieWeb Discover — James G’s reverse-chronological feed of indie sites (successor to his IndieWeb Search)
• Kagi Small Web — curated feed of the past week’s posts from indie bloggers, open source, RSS by category
• OpenRSS — nonprofit that generates a clean RSS feed for any URL
• Feedle — search blogs/podcasts and turn any query into a subscribable feed
• Scour — solo-built semantic discovery over 28K small blogs and newsletters
• Indie Newsletters — humanly curated newsletter directory, no ads