<story><title>Automating My /Now Page</title><url>https://akashgoswami.dev/posts/automating-my-now-page/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pflenker</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s a bit sad that &amp;#x2F;now pages are going into a direction of listicles&amp;#x2F;media people consume and so on. The original explanation about what &amp;#x2F;now pages are has this following sentence [0]: &amp;quot;Think of what you’d tell a friend you hadn’t seen in a year.&amp;quot;. This, in my opinion, encapsulates the beauty of &amp;#x2F;now pages. When I see a friend after a year, I do not start by listing all the books I read recently - I start with my life in broad strokes (and _then_ I might go into these listicles). I wish &amp;#x2F;now pages went back to this. Here&amp;#x27;s mine, by the way: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;philippflenker.com&amp;#x2F;now&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;philippflenker.com&amp;#x2F;now&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nownownow.com&amp;#x2F;about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nownownow.com&amp;#x2F;about&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yaj54</author><text>Agreed.  I really like the concept of the now page as a succinct quarterly update.  I want it to only change once per quarter.&lt;p&gt;I also really like consolidated news feeds of one persons activity across all platforms (which seems more like what these &amp;quot;auto now&amp;quot; page attempts are going for).&lt;p&gt;I think we need a new term.  I would like to call it &amp;#x2F;feed.  It could even be implemented as an rss&amp;#x2F;atom&amp;#x2F;activitypub aggregate feed of all a user&amp;#x27;s activity across publishing platforms.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2F;feed&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x27;s make it a thing.
And let&amp;#x27;s keep &amp;#x2F;now as the quarterly update.&lt;p&gt;(also, your now page link is not resolving)</text></comment>
<story><title>Automating My /Now Page</title><url>https://akashgoswami.dev/posts/automating-my-now-page/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pflenker</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s a bit sad that &amp;#x2F;now pages are going into a direction of listicles&amp;#x2F;media people consume and so on. The original explanation about what &amp;#x2F;now pages are has this following sentence [0]: &amp;quot;Think of what you’d tell a friend you hadn’t seen in a year.&amp;quot;. This, in my opinion, encapsulates the beauty of &amp;#x2F;now pages. When I see a friend after a year, I do not start by listing all the books I read recently - I start with my life in broad strokes (and _then_ I might go into these listicles). I wish &amp;#x2F;now pages went back to this. Here&amp;#x27;s mine, by the way: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;philippflenker.com&amp;#x2F;now&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;philippflenker.com&amp;#x2F;now&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nownownow.com&amp;#x2F;about&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nownownow.com&amp;#x2F;about&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sivers</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nownownow.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nownownow.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; is still hand-made by me, not automated.&lt;p&gt;The only way a website gets added there is if the owner emails me, and I checked out the &amp;#x2F;now page, and decided to add it.&lt;p&gt;Every now and then I get a submission that&amp;#x27;s like &amp;quot;We here at XYZ widgets are currently focused on quality, service, and low prices.&amp;quot;  I don&amp;#x27;t add those.&lt;p&gt;And there&amp;#x27;s absolutely no monetization on the website, and never will be.  It only takes a few minutes per week to do this.&lt;p&gt;Point is: please don&amp;#x27;t worry about enshittification of &amp;#x2F;now pages.  What Akash is doing here is a fun project, and &amp;#x2F;now pages in general are not going the listicle direction.</text></comment>