This is a list of resources I use to discover new blogs. I also maintain a list of my favorite blogs if you’re interested.
Hacker News
By far the best way I’ve discovered new blogs is through Hacker News. I occasionally discover new blogs when a post/article from that blog is submitted to Hacker News. There are also HN posts where people share blogs:
There’s more posts like these that can be found with a quick Google ssearch.
Kagi Small Web
Kagi Small Web is an effort to highlight smaller sites and blogs around the web. You can learn more in Kagi’s announcement post
A list of all sites indexed by Kagi Small Web is on GitHub: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.txt
indieblog.page
indieblog.page lets you click a button and get a random blog post.
They also have a list of all blogs and several RSS feeds to make discoverability easier.
theforest.link
Very similar to indieblog.page but more minimal. Click a button and get redirected to a random site.
blogs.hn
This is a collection of blogs that mainly come from Hacker News. It was created by Taylor Troesh.
Neocities
Neocities is a place where users can create a static site for free. Most sites here are reminiscent of the 90s web. I like to browse by the latest updated sites but there are other filters too.
ooh.directory
ooh.directory is a collection of blogs on all sorts of topics. They have a Random Blogs area that works similarly to indieblog.page and theforest.link.
personalsit.es
Another collection of blogs – with previews!
250kb.club, 512kb.club, 1mb.club
These sites all have the same idea in that they are collections of sites that are under a certain size (at least for the home page). There’s lots of blogs to discover among all three lists.
bukmark.club
https://bukmark.club/directory/
bukmark.club is a list of sites that have curated links to other sites. You can easily go down a rabbit hole.
minifeed.net
A curated list of human-written blogs. When viewing a post or article from a blog here, minifeed will also show related blog posts from different sites which is great for discovering new blogs.
The Big List of Personal Websites
Another curated list of personal websites.