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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[–] Libb@jlai.lu 47 points 3 days 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 ;)

[–] hemicycle@lemm.ee 17 points 3 days ago (6 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.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days 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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[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day 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?

[–] hemicycle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's hosted on Framer.

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe start smaller and work your way up? They really charge $75 a month AND put you under a bandwidth cap? Yikes.

[–] hemicycle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah the pricing model is kinda painful. yup a bandwidth cap for $75 is super crazy

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[–] hemicycle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 17 points 2 days 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.

[–] hemicycle@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days 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.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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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[–] hemicycle@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days 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.

[–] AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] hemicycle@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Same old story of a community-driven site resorting to ads for revenue. After feedback they started a subscription-based version called totalFark that didn't have ads. Then they introduced ads on totalFark as well, but didn't vet their advertisers. So some of the banner ads were running malicious code on users browsers.

[–] hemicycle@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago

Damn that's crazy... Why allow ads on a subscription site what makes it okay to do that.

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 16 points 3 days 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.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days 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.

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[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day 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/

[–] hemicycle@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Hm I wanted this to be a catalogue organized

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days 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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[–] rickdg@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

X, Insta, Threads at the top of the homepage

And for that reason I’m out.

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[–] ChadMcTruth@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

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

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