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Or Stumbleupon clone's aren't popular because there really just isnt a lot of demand for them. Stumbleupon clones already exist. People generally prefer social media and in this case I'd say Reddit more specifically.

Here is one I found with a 5 second search: https://cloudhiker.net/

It works great. It's fun. Hopefully people will enjoy it. But I dont think we need to make excuses for why its not more popular.

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I agreed that I thought SU wouldn't work in today's internet, and I clicked on the cloudhiker link thinking I'd be met with SEO trash, but I ended up on this post: https://dynomight.net/ikea-purifier

Which was a great post and now I understand more than I did about how air filters work...more complicated than I'd thought.

Maybe I should give cloudhiker a try.

I read the page because you linked it, as an aside " (Yeah, power usage goes down when you add the extra carbon filter to the IKEA purifier. I’ve confirmed this myself with a power meter. Physics is weird.)"

when you block a vacuum cleaner the motor spins faster and uses less electricity, it just sounds like it's "working harder" but if there's less stuff (air) there to create friction then it's working less hard. So the heavier filter material using less electricity makes sense, especially when you take into account the lower "CADR" - wtf-ever that is.

Furthermore , all of my "DIY" air filters do a remarkable job, and they move very little air compared to the fans they're duct taped to, but they still turn black if i don't clean them every month or two.

I swear that IKEA filter writeup was on HN once upon a time. That or someone else's thorough analysis of the exact same appliance!

Yes it was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31812259

I didn't mean to do this, but a smarter person than I once said if you want the answer to a question on the internet you ought to post the wrong answer, and I feel like I inadvertently did this.

In my hubris I assumed there wasn't anything comparable that was live, but this is pretty awesome. Glad to have egg on my face here.

2 and a half years ago CloudHiker was a much more direct spiritual successor to StumbleUpon, and it was called Stumbled.cc

It worked better, didn't require an extension like CH and then at some point they changed and all the content on the site went downhill. As others in the thread have mentioned, it was starting to become SEO'd.

Looks great, makes a really great statement on its front page and then offers their extension for your browser... the link goes straight to the Chrome store, no other browser gets the extension support it seems

One issue is a lot more sites today have headers that block displaying the site in a frame. This prevents sites like StumbleUpon from displaying their UI at the same time as the content; the only way around it that I’m aware of is a browser extension.

How is that related to other browsers not getting an extension?

Because it’s more work to maintain an extension for N browsers than to maintain a single website. So developers tend to just pick the one they care about.

And unfortunately in doing so, which is where my point really was, continue the Chromification of the internet... this seems to be counter to the theme of what they set out to do

Having to use an extension would make me suspicious... I'd rather just open indexed sites in new tabs.

Hmm, my first cloudhiker link gives me a:

Five Tips to Make Meditation Easy and Enjoyable - Video Five questions that beginning meditators…

Not exactly what I was hoping for.

cloudhiker just took me to a delightful site. Fun rewarding experience, will prob never use it again.

That looks great. Is there a list of these types of sites?

An aggregator aggregator? Then you run into issues of "what constitutes an aggregator site" coupled with "... that deserves being on the list".

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