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@linuwus asked:

I tried adding myself to the 'wolf' but got a message about the "category or url already taken" which doesn't seem very... category-like? I thought the whole point was that people with similar interests joined the same category.

oh wow you actually tried out https://girl.technology!! first of all thank you I thought no one would notice it (and I haven't exactly been good about promoting it either lol)

My initial conception was exactly that: https://wolf.girl.technology/ would simply contain a collection of links that people self-selected into by (1) putting a special file on their website and (2) registering with the service. But it was getting a little lonely when I was the only link in that category, so to put it to better use I changed it to be a redirect. This had the consequence of only allowing one link per subdomain, making them act more like usernames than like categories.

I'm not sure I'll change it back, since I do enjoy the vanity redirect & don't expect it to ever get popular enough that name space becomes an issue. Sorry for stealing "wolf" from u!


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in reply to @PolyWolf's post:

But it was getting a little lonely when I was the only link in that category, so to put it to better use I changed it to be a redirect.

Aww that's a shame! I really like the original vision for girl.technology... if you gave each category an embed it could've been a really cute webring

Sorry for stealing "wolf" from u!

don't worry I didn't actually want the 'wolf' category, I just wanted to try joining a category that was already in use :3

i am willing to reconsider if it looks like it will gain traction! tho maybe the automatic webring idea would help it gain more traction hrm..

in any case, thanks for signing up!! i would follow ur blog but it doesn't seem to have an rss feed...

Okay I fixed it – I'd just forgotten to actually link atom.xml from any HTML... there's probably some lesson to be learnt here about testing but I think I'll just elegantly dance over that...

Also: I've never gotten around to configuring an RSS reader so let me know if something is horribly broken with the feed as it is