I've seen a few different people talk about the uprise of the "zero-click internet". For those unfamiliar, in a nutshell the "zero-click internet" refers to how search engines now use AI summaries to answer questions, so users don't actually have to click on links or visit sites anymore.
There are obviously a lot of problems with this. AI overviews are notoriously buggy. They often get stuff wrong and the sources for said info is often missing or misattributed, but you probably already knew that. Smarter people than me have already pointed all of this out and analyzed it in depth.
Something I haven't seen as many talk about, however, is that even if you turn AI summaries off, the search results still suck.
I have a few guides/tutorials saved in my drafts. Most of them start with a tangentially related preamble about this subject. I thought it'd be smart to just trim the fat; cut straight to the point for those posts, and share the preamble here separately for those who really care.
I recently started and then promptly gave up on trying to list every single small/independent webring and web directory I could find. Was it worth it? I don't know, but now that I've seen and catalogued so many of them, I wanted to share some observations.
I recently added a link directory to my site, but I still have a ton of other pages that I’d like to share and categorize. I have a terrible habit of hoarding bookmarks and tabs and never going back to them. They desperately need a spring cleaning, but I’ve been preoccupied with my personal life and when I'm not busy with that, I'm usually procrastinating.
So lets take a look at my awful bookmarking systems. Yes, "systems", with an "s". I'm so scatterbrained that I can't even stick to just one.
Zonelets is a free to use, static blogging engine. It's aimed at absolute beginners and especially popular with young people on platforms like Neocities. Unfortunately, the default Zonelets layout lacks a lot of basic accessibility features. Because so many of its users are newbies, they're either unaware of or unable to fix these issues. This post is me throwing my hat in the ring and trying to fix those issues myself.