Ask HN: The sites gaming Kagi Small Web are ruining the experience

2 pointsby chris_money2024 เดือนที่ผ่านมา5 comments

Do you agree? Today has been especially bad with sites triggering leaving the app to go to my default browser. It seems like they are doing it on purpose. Not really sure what you do to fix this because the moment Kagi puts in some sort of algorithm we’re then just chasing the inevitable of social media algorithm equivalents.

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squidhunter4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา

freediver4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา

Welcoming a PR to fix it.

chris_money2024 เดือนที่ผ่านมา

What’s the review process for all this? It looks to only be you based on git and your HN bio. Can you get some trusted community lieutenants who can police the lists and create a file with their names ? And then anyone can raise a PR to remove or add someone to that list of lieutenants and enough approvals from community can get the PR through. I’m not super familiar with GitHub settings but sure there is a way to setup some sort of democratic process for this.

chris_money2024 เดือนที่ผ่านมา

Love the site btw, but I fear if you don’t get some help you’re going to trust all PRs and let them fly and trust people will issue removal PRs. For instance, my girlfriend loves the concept as well and was immediately hooked but she doesn’t know GitHub, so there’s no practical mechanism for her to remove bad content. And editing files on mobile GitHub is a pain, I probably wouldn’t even consider doing it, especially with a text file that big. So there’s going to need to be some sort of loyal community policing or voting system, because at end of day all these sites could be flipped to bad content as soon as they make it past review.

freediver4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา

It is a 'best effort' effort. GitHub friction is there on purpose, as it is a one man effort.