About a week ago, I created a post detailing a web index I was working on.

I've implemented a few policy changes, after realizing I want this to be more like a library than a search engine.

I remember walking through library shelves as a kid, finding all the subjects I could learn about fascinating. And I'd really like to recreate that experience with this site. An infinitely scrollable catalog that transitions from subject to subject to subject, treating individual domains as books, with rankings (0-9) determined by a mixture of author authority and cultural relevance.

Current Plans:

• I'm removing the index.json requirement, and allowing users to simply submit domains for inclusion within the catalog.
• Domains are sorted via an alphanumeric XXX.XXX.XXX format (so cultural anthropology would be SCI.ANT.CUL)
• I also have plans to put the entire catalog on IPFS, for public accountability.
• I'm also no longer referring to it as an index, but a catalog.

You could even have a plethora of local results: USA.KTY.BWG, DEU.BER.MIT

Here is the current UX: https://imgur.com/a/QdXTmbz I'm looking for suggestions to make it a better experience. The name is just a placeholder.

I'm building a catalog for the Internet -- think Google crosses old school library card catalogs, meets Dewey Decimal System, and will eventually require donations. What's the best platform to use for this?

The entire database will be made available to the public, for private offline use in custom desktop applications, or other sites with alternative ideas.

I'd like a goal meter, to show how close we are to reaching our funding goals and for the platform to have a good reputation.

Let's assume I have a software application with millions of files. The files receive frequent updates.

Is there a way to distribute those updates across all those devices?

I'm thinking something like Torrents/IPFS/Resilio. . . But they all seem like overkill.

I've been looking at my Search Engine, and thought it would be cool to allow people to download the database themselves, and run a local UI, for maximum privacy.

I would just be creating records within the main database. I could offer searches through the main site and allow people to explore it on their desktops.

Think Matrix. . .

If you could wear a helmet that put you into a blissful simulation, while affluent overlords used your body for labor, pumped in nutrients, managed your reproductive needs, and killed you when everything started falling apart, would you do it?

The US Census Bureau defines lower class as the lowest 20% of incomes.

Pew defines it as the lowest 2/3 of the median.

If the highest income is $100, 20% is $20.

At 2/3 the median, if the median is $30, lower-class is $20.

Is there a reason they're tying income classes to people within those classes, and not what it costs to survive within the economy?

I've seen so many men terrified of anything gay themed. I've watched men refuse to be friends with people who didn't act manly enough. I've watched grown-ass men bark "f@gg0+," every time they saw 2 dudes expressing an interest in one another on TV. Pink Pony Club, I Kissed a Girl, and several other songs are a complete turn-off for them.

I have to ask, what scares you guys? What, sitting in the pit of your stomach, do you feel and think when you see gay things?

Thinking it would be cool to start a newspaper in Gregg Shorthand, and curious how many readers there are.

About a decade ago, I tried to index the web via the Dewey Decimal System. I had a site laid out similar to Google, where you could browse sites continuously starting from a given call, but the DDS is proprietary, and those people hate anyone who uses their IP without a license. You can Google everyone they’ve shutdown – places that weren’t even libraries – for using anything similar to the DDS. I reached out to the group that manages the DDS, and was taken offline before my project even started.

With all the corporate BS lately, and people looking for alternative options, I thought I’d take a search engine old school, and we’d index like Usenet. Except with an XXX.XXX.XXX format.

My original project used sharded Redis, with append logs to disk. I chose it for its in-memory speed and key-value store. Did some calculations, and I'd have to have millions of records just to consume my entire system's memory.

I had a lot of plans for this before getting shut down.

Now that I'm older, I'm curious if I should be using MongoDB.

What are the benefits and drawbacks of each? Which would you use? And why?

I started a project around a decade ago to replace Google with the Dewey Decimal System. Academic research showed Google responsible for putting active shooters in echo chambers and feeding them false information, covering up historical events, keeping information away from certain classes of people, etc.

The OCLC is very protective of DDS, and sues anyone who tries to use it (including a library themed party, if memory serves correctly). I reached out to them and pretty much had to shut my project down before it even got off the ground.

I've created a new system, but can't find any of the original YouTube content I included on my original "Why" page.

One of the videos was of Google feeding active shooters racist information and consistently sending them into echo chambers of racist online content. The other was Google hiding historical social contributions from PoC and then outright denying they were doing it -- reported by a watchdog group. I'd also like to include one of how echo chambers formed by algorithms can be a dangerous thing.

I've put several queries into Google and YouTube regarding shooter radicalization through Google, and the content no longer shows up. I've looked for the negatives of using Google, the political influence Google has, and all I'm getting is articles throwing blame somewhere else. It's as if Google went on an active cleanup campaign.

About a decade ago, I tried to index the web via the Dewey Decimal System. I had a site laid out similar to Google, where you could browse sites continuously starting from a given call, but the DDS is proprietary, and those people hate anyone who uses their IP without a license. You can Google everyone they've shutdown -- places that weren't even libraries -- for using anything similar to the DDS. I reached out to the group that manages the DDS, and was taken offline before my project even started.

With all the corporate BS lately, and people looking for alternative options, I thought I'd take a search engine old school, and we'd index like Usenet. Except with an XXX.XXX.XXX format.

Problem is, now I've got to find categories, sub categories, and local categories. Categories for animals, chat rooms, cars, construction, wrestling, etc.

I need a brilliantly created categorical system with a TLD.MLD.LLD (top level subject domain, mid level domain, and local level domain) format.

I was going to let site owners Disney Land it, by letting them create an index.json file in the root of their site, choosing for themselves where they wanted to appear in the index. Problem is, as trends change and systems become more exact, site owners would have to update their index. Which could become cumbersome.

Further, if we divided into academic disciplines, there would be things like gaming and model construction which wouldn't fit into those.

It would help if there were an already established categorization system, so that site owners didn't have choice anxiety. And then, as the site grew, site owners could recategorize themselves with user feedback.

Could you guys suggest a few categorization systems (can't be DDS), either of your own making or other sources?

I'm already looking at Usenet: https://www.livinginternet.com/u/uw_hier.htm

Edit: Current UX: https://imgur.com/a/sURm4s1

• Haven't chosen a name yet.
• Adult is probably going to be dropped, and when the site owner chooses a category, they can put it in the ADT TLD.

When's the last time you saw a car other than red, black, blue, gray, or white on the road?

Like, what happened to all the pinks, purples, oranges, yellows, and greens I remember from the 90s?