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Remember when the internet felt like a giant treasure hunt instead of just… cycling through the same five apps? Yeah, me too. That’s why I started COI (Corners of Internet)—a place where I dig up weird, fun, and happy corners of the web so you don’t have to.

No algorithms. No doomscrolling. Just pure internet exploration.

If it’s cool, underrated, or a little unhinged, it goes on COI.

Check it out: www.cornersofinternet.com

Also, if you’ve got a favorite weird site, drop it below! I’m always looking for new rabbit holes to fall into.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It looks so busy. I like https://wiby.me/ that uses search or a surprise me for the similar idea. It is so clean. see https://wiby.me/about/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 56 minutes ago

Hm I wanted this to be a catalogue organized

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Love the idea! Kinda like fark.com before they got all shitty.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I've never been on fark what is the story though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I was curious to click on one of the sites (bread-on.earth), but the link appears to be dead. Is there a mechanism for reporting dead sites?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

bread on earth : they are updating their site.. It is a good site, where you could find everything about bread. They also had recipes of antient bread. I think they'll be back soon.

Maybe I will move it to draft on out site.. Well the only way to report rn maybe an email. This is a one off occurrence, maybe I will think of something if more sites are going offline often.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

What a horrible landing page.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

also why would you say it is horrible, I'm collecting feedback. Would help me see what you are seeing, Thank you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Fwiw, I can't really actually tell what to do on the page, at least on mobile there is a lot going on, including asking for money before I even understand what the page is for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Updated the buy me coffee button to go to the footer it's a self funded project that is why it was there on top :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The initial landing page looks extremely messy and chaotic. It looks like it's made by an edgy tech intern who's goal it was to make it as modernly bad as possible. There's as many fonts as there are words and equally as many random images and CSS tricks that make it extremely hard to understand what the website is trying to do.

I'm sorry for the hard comment, but that's what I see.

I suggest 2 main things:

  • Keep it simple. It's a skill to keep something both interesting and simple and it's very important when designing landing pages.
  • Split your personal stuff and the service you're providing. You're mixing 2 different types of website and it does not feel professional.

I could give a much more in depth review if you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't mind in depth review!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
  • The top banner looks quite out of place. Your whole website uses huge full width vertical separation but the top banner is a tiny thing at the top, that looks like it should be sticky. It also uses round borders while your footer uses square borders.
  • The "At your service" could be misunderstood in the current landscape of AI assistents. It might imply some sort of smart interaction.
  • I would suggest you emphasis only 1 or 2 words in your landing title. You need to have 1 single thing stand out when they see that for the very first moment. "Coi" does not mean much. "Tiny Corner" "Internet" could work alright together.
  • This feels awefully out of place: https://framerusercontent.com/images/NEDqhYBfbsBdcBYtqq012PD2C8.gif Maybe it could in the same emphasis as "Coi", or be placed somewhere else entirely. I was trying to figure out if it meant some sort of word in the sentence.
  • The Buy Me Pizza has been moved to a much better location.
  • The second thing I notice when I visit the page is the "Psssst". It's like you already ended the stream of information and switch to something else. You give me an option for a waiting list but I have no idea what I'm waiting for.
  • I would remove the border at the bottom of the top landing part. Either have a smooth background or have it cut into vertical parts like your footer.
  • The "I feel Lucky" is a bit flashy and placed right under the border and above the menu. I think it would be much better if you have it stand out much bigger and with more space around it. It feels like a second class citizen, while it might actually be a fun feature of the website. Small example of what I mean: https://i.imgur.com/ykZyrID.png .
  • The stars effect on the hover of "I feel lucky" is nice, but it shows way too fast compared to the rest of your animation heavy page.
  • The menu for the types of websites could be made bigger. The thing I don't like about it is that it has a different background that matches the original too much. https://i.imgur.com/FeUxtUT.png
  • Hovering over the cards is the same as the stars. The change is too fast and too harsh
  • The badges underneath the cards (NEW, POPULAR) would be better with different colored backgrounds to easily spot what's new and what's popular. A trick is to zoom out and have it still make sense. I would also use green or blue for "New" instead of orange.
  • "Load more" could use a spinner on the button to show that it's loading something. Always consider your site to be slow on your end-users machines.
  • The footer separation is very nice but might be too huge.
  • There are 5 mentions to contact you in your footer: "Let's connect", "let's talk", "contact me", "hit me up", "submit suggestions". As I said, keep it simple and draw focus to just one of them. Drop the others. (especially the submit suggestions logo)
  • "I unearth internet gems that make you go 🤯". You make it very personal but I fail to understand, even when reviewing this in depth, whether this means you, or your website (which has a persona). Try to make this much clearer.
  • Your Blog "Dear Diary" is weird and is like a totally different website. I fail to see what it has to do with your service "find a website from a corner on the internet". Really try to separate these because it will confuse a lot of people.

I could do more. It's up to you. I know a lot about UX and have been a web developer for almost 20 years now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for the pointers, I am reviewing everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

No problem. Some of it may be harsh but I'm always trying to help.

Good luck on your project!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

Thank you, I made some changes already. Need to figure out the banner. Wil keep you posted, thansk again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

The best I could do atm sorry :(

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

What a worthless comment.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some feedback: the "hi I'm coi" thing at the top? I thought it was another LLM AI thing introducing itself. I closed the tab immediately, but then double checked when I read the rest of this post.

The social media links at the top, especially Twitter, are a negative for me. Fuck twitter and Facebook.

The big color buttons (that are not actually buttons) interspersed with text is a choice but it feels very bad-modern to me. If you're going for more retro pre-shit, maybe take inspiration from https://evenbettermotherfucking.website/ or friends.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually I do wanna get a designer for the project in the near future when i make some money with this site and turn it very retroish.. Rn i'm working with templates and preexisting codes. Yeah I know its not perfect but it will get there slowly I promise.

Regarding the Hi I'm Coi, yes now I get how it may sound LLMish. But the idea was to kinda introduce a character called Coi who is surfing the internet and fining cool shit uk.

Socials : i know it is kinda negative even I wanna be far away but need to get some traffic for the site. I don't know how to work around it. Maybe when there is more awareness about the site I will remove it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hold on to your design, don’t let some critics change it.

I design web gui stuff a lot, and I am hyper sensitive to most designers including me, being constricted to some conventions. So I really appreciate well designed non conventional stuff, like used to be more common years ago.

Your web stuff adds value which will go away if you conform too much

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Honestly all the feedbacks are just overwhelming trying to tag them as good to haves or not.

Thank you your comment clears up a lotta self doubt. Means a lot.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Maybe it's a generational thing (I'm a 50+), I don't know, but when I see a 'Buy me (something)' or a 'tip me' first thing first on the home page even before I can get any idea of what I will find on the website I'm not likely to explore further. I thought you might want to know about that, even I may be in the minority.

Just in case:

  • Nope, I'm not cheap. I just want to know who and why I'm supposed to be paying a coffee to (or a pizza) before I decide I want to do it, or not to do it.
  • I'm always very happy to see people trying to refocus attention toward a less corporate-owned Internet.
  • I hope it was clear it's nothing personal, just my first reaction on visiting your page. I'll explore it further ;)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I have removed it and made it go on the end :D

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I totally get it, yet I contemplated that decision a lot. This is a self funded indie project, could use a lotta funding.

But I agree, I will be removing that soon, maybe tug it into the footer or someplace. Not like it is helping me get coffee anyways :D

Thanks for the feedback.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Wait. Why could you use a lot of funding? I run websites, I don't do adds I don't charge and I don't ask for money.

That is part of what made the old internet fun.

What is the money for?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago

It's hosted on Framer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe a solution would be to make the donation info a toast that pops up after a time or after a certain amount of scrolling has happened.

So people like op are not put of from the start but you also make it easy for people who want to donate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I don't think it needs to be hidden or anything, but consider your "before the fold" content, it's what is most important on a web page and what will grab users in the 2-3 seconds you have to capture their attention before many will click off.

Currently on your site I have to scroll down quite a bit beyond the fold to get to the actual website on my phone, as the top section is taken up by very large text superfluous to the main content.

I know it sucks to have to build for that sort of user, but it's a large chunk of users, and the rest are just putting up with the inconvenience haha :-)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

currently under construction but believe me its going to be huge chadmctrutstruh.fyi i accidentally misspelled it but they said no refunds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I bet, checking it out rn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

wdym can you please elaborate

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The internet used to feel like a treasure hunt because it wasn't indexed well, and a large part of the surface content were pages made by oddball people letting their weirdness run wild without social limitations.

Sure, algorithms keep most normies in a social media ecosystem, but it's also not exactly easy for me to make a truly anonymous website about the awesome predictions I've made from looking at the patterns in my breakfast cereal every morning - AND just let it be. There's pressure to promote it, crosspost it, etc. Even the fun of thought experiments posted to a GeoCities page come with risks now.

Maybe I'm jaded and lack the youthful energy to stay up until 4:30am slapping im14amdthisisdeep stuff somewhere. Maybe everyone else that's just slightly weird still expects to get paid for that with ads when it all used to be free and fun.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've made websites about my little hobby projects. Rent a VPS for $1/month, get a privacy, no-name domain for $5/year, and just put stuff up. Mostly for my own reference or documentation; I don't care if anyone else ever sees it, but it does get hits (mostly from the openai bot). Shouting into the void like it's 1995.

I do miss when people would post links to actual interesting original sites, as opposed to just screenshots of other social media posts. Give me a link to https://tvtropes.org/ not a jpeg of the KnowNothingKnowItAll next to a picture of Elon Musk. That's resulted in the internet going from 99% crap to 99.99% crap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

That's what I missed most. Links to other sites.

I used to run a page for Robert E Howard, Conan author, way back in the day. I got to know others that shared an interest....we were our own small community. It was fun. I would link to stuff that was related, including music that I liked when reading. I would have these bands email me back about how they appreciated the link. It was great.

Then Google and Facebook started the end to all that

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What made it magical for me used to be StumbleUpon way back when it still had the extension. I miss it sometimes. 😥

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

X, Insta, Threads at the top of the homepage

And for that reason I’m out.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This is pretty good and cool. Already found some hidden gems I didn't know about. Possible suggestion for another category is for youtube channels. Youtube's algorithm sucks now and there are only about 4 youtube channels I regularly watch. So it'll be cool to have a category to suggest good content creators on youtube .

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know this is an XY fallacy type response but you mentioned YouTube sucks now so I'd like to interject.

Use the subscriptions tab. If you only watch 4 channels, sub to those channels.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have subbed to all of them but video recommantions on youtube aren't even related to the video or even topic nowadays I find. I get mrbeast wannabees in the related tab despite never watching them. I can't find new channels because algorithm even with no influence recommends stuff I'm not interested in unlike when youtube was first around and it recommended you content creators based on your personal watches and not the algorithm

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