StumbleUpon2?

> StumbleUpon was a website, browser extension, toolbar, and mobile app with a "Stumble!" button that, when pushed, opened a semi-random website or video that matched the user's interests, similar to a random web search engine.[1] Users were able to filter results by type of content and were able to discuss such webpages via virtual communities and to rate such webpages via like buttons. StumbleUpon was shut down in June 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon

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epiccoleman 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I loved StumbleUpon but I have this odd feeling that it was sort of the first augur in my life for what algorithmic feeds would do to my attention span. But it really was a cool thing, in those last days of the pre-social media web, to find all those neat little passion project sites.

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SketchySeaBeast 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I really loved StumbleUpon, but I fear reviving it would lead to nothing but inorganic traffic and malware.

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Cthulhu_ 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It'd only work today if it was hand-curated and every submission continuously checked in case the underlying page was altered.

That said, it would work. Whether it would be financially viable is another matter, but going for profitability is ruining a lot of fun.

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kedean 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I also fear that the centralization of the web to a handful of websites has made a revival impossible. If 80% of your stumbles are just reddit posts or imgur links, whats the point?

	▲	Izkata 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That you can exclude them? People seem to have forgotten StumbleUpon had a pretty decent configuration page where you had to manually select what topics you were interested in, and that submitting new pages wasn't as simple as just submitting the URL. On top of that, I'm pretty sure I remember a "block this domain" option if you clicked the arrow next to the thumbs down: https://i.sstatic.net/VLS4c.png