[robto]

The list of text links is basically what https://pinboard.in is, basically - social bookmarking. I only use it privately, but it does have the exact function you're talking about as well. I don't think I would use it with thumbnail previews, since I like how lightweight it is, but it wouldn't be difficult to build something like that.

[cableshaft]

I've only taken a brief look at this so I could be mistaken, but this still looks a bit too automated. Might be based on people's bookmarks, but seems to be not much more than blog roll or twitter feed, but for bookmarks, or a popularity contest.

I'm thinking something more deliberate than that. Like an ordering the person chooses deliberately, because they want the links to be in a certain order.

I'm also thinking something a bit cleaner than this too. There seems to be too much extra on that site, lots of listed tags for every link, some links have multiple paragraphs of text with it and some don't, etc.

Like I might as well just use Reddit or Hacker News instead at that point.

I'm thinking something more like the following[1] as far as presentation (and not even really this, but I'm having a hard time finding a good example), maybe with some short blurbs by the curator, and with a chosen ordering.

I'd even be cool with something kind of like this[2] and text-based (maybe it could be a toggle that switches between a grid gallery view and text-view). But with a person being able to create multiple of these, and being able to follow a curator socially to see what other links they come up with, and maybe clicking a tag and seeing the most popular curated and deliberately ordered lists by individuals instead of just a list of links ordered by some algorithm.

I know people make their own blog articles and whatnot online, like in that second article, but it's just getting too difficult to hunt those down via Google searches since those searches have been SEO'd to death by garbage sites, and those articles that do exist have no consistent look or feel to them.

Like to take an example from something I enjoy a lot, board games. I can go on BoardGameGeek and look at the most popular and see what's currently the most enjoyed list of games. But it's a homgenized list.

But there's lots of people making videos on Youtube with their own top 10 lists, and on those lists they might include several of the same games, but they might also include some weird or off the wall games I've never heard of before, and explain why it's on their list, and I go, oh yeah, that sounds right up my alley, let's check that out. And then eventually I watch enough of these people to know someone I really like and respect their opinions on a lot of times, and then I check all their lists out, and get a bunch of ideas that I probably like but I'd never see if I just look at a list of 'the most popular games'.

BoardGameGeek also has a neat feature called a GeekList, that any user can create on any subject, that's just list of links to games on their site, and they can choose the order of the games they put on that list. So I can see what they think is most important, and why (I've created a couple of my own lists, including a list of released board games I was a playtester on).

Like here's a popular one that's a list of the top 200 people's choice solo games as voted by a specific scoring criteria that's not built in to BoardGameGeek. But since they allow whatever ordering, it doesn't matter, they just create a list in the order of the results of their scoring criteria[3].

Maybe that's more what I really want, but for general links to websites (or even products, whatever), and not necessarily a link gallery.

[1]: https://bestwebgallery.com/

[2]: https://www.labnol.org/internet/101-useful-websites/18078/

[3]: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/324731/2023-peoples-choic...