elle on Warpcast

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"Links are the lifeblood of the web, and linking to other sites is a declaration of independence. Its a declaration that says, “I am the infrastructure of the web, I am not content, nor am I a product, I am a human and a participant in this great work of humanity we call the Internet”. Linking to other sites is an act of rebellion; but its also an act of meditation, and of ego death - linking to the work of others is a way of celebrating their achievements and by doing so, gaining dignity for yourself and your work. You deserve to be part of the web, not its final destination; and there is respect in knowing that. Its a two way street, a conversation, and a collaboration." i've been working on/thinking about a links page for my homepage. currently, i just have outbound links scattered throughout various areas but i want to do a dedicated page too. do u have a links page on your website? share it below! https://thoughts.melonking.net/thoughts/every-site-needs-a-links-page-why-linking-matters

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This is an interesting take on links pages! I understood them to be a localized alternative to linktree and similar services, largely used to consolidate social links. This almost seems like a combination of friends + uses + colophon pages! Maybe this is the way and the links I imagined could just be contact? (there's no formal standard to any of these but I do find conventions better to follow and just want to play along where others are going)

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i always had a links page linking out to friends and interests on my early websites. so it was basically the equivalent to a "following" tab. looking at other ppl's links was the main way i would find other interesting ppl on the web. also having lots of ppl link to u was also the way to hack google search result rankings (⌒_⌒;)

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I wish I had the internet friends back then to have thought of that but all the reason to start today 😌

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we need to go back to personal sites as the ultimate decentralized social network ^-^ it's even easier today with all the one-click/drag and drop solutions for ppl who don't write html hey i just looked at your website for the first time in a while and it's different! it's so good! <3

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Oh right! Thank you!! I forgot I made it live 😆 everything works as I wanted except the links to the data uri experiments, which are not easily clickable because of browser security. Other option was iframes but it felt against the spirit of the website. My goal was to make it very wtf and live up to the domain!

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