[pflenker]

I think it's a bit sad that /now pages are going into a direction of listicles/media people consume and so on. The original explanation about what /now pages are has this following sentence [0]: "Think of what you’d tell a friend you hadn’t seen in a year.". This, in my opinion, encapsulates the beauty of /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 /now pages went back to this. Here's mine, by the way: https://philippflenker.com/now

[0]: https://nownownow.com/about

[yaj54]

Agreed. I really like the concept of the now page as a succinct quarterly update. I want it to only change once per quarter.

I also really like consolidated news feeds of one persons activity across all platforms (which seems more like what these "auto now" page attempts are going for).

I think we need a new term. I would like to call it /feed. It could even be implemented as an rss/atom/activitypub aggregate feed of all a user's activity across publishing platforms.

/feed

Let's make it a thing. And let's keep /now as the quarterly update.

(also, your now page link is not resolving)

[tomhoward]

I'm planning to build this for myself and could make it available for others if there's interest.

[sivers]

https://nownownow.com/ is still hand-made by me, not automated.

The only way a website gets added there is if the owner emails me, and I checked out the /now page, and decided to add it.

Every now and then I get a submission that's like "We here at XYZ widgets are currently focused on quality, service, and low prices." I don't add those.

And there's absolutely no monetization on the website, and never will be. It only takes a few minutes per week to do this.

Point is: please don't worry about enshittification of /now pages. What Akash is doing here is a fun project, and /now pages in general are not going the listicle direction.

[rolisz]

I think GP is complaining about a change of topic of /now, not that it becomes corporate SEO gamified.

[akashgoswami]

I have seen people listing the media they are consuming but I would like to think of it as them posting what is important to them.

While I do have media on my now page, I still do have some sections that are updated manually (mainly the top half of the page). To me travel is more important than media and a lot more of my friends ask me where I've been recently, hence why I put that higher up on the page over the media stuff.

Anyway, might be something for me to think about later on if I decide to switch up the format (which I likely will)

[emrah]

You are spot on. Some people intentionally or unintentionally misunderstood what it is

[Spivak]

Or just have a different idea about the time frame they think is relevant. Because /now could mean "where are they now" or "what are they doing right now" and both are interesting to different people.

[emrah]

One is position, one is velocity which are distinct and relevant I think

[katzinsky]

The way I handle it is having separate pages for stuff that updates often and then link them from my now page.

[akashgoswami]

I'm planning on having pages like this soon! I want to have something like a /bookshelf with books I've already read