Slashpages or a standard for the indie web

2024-05-26

I’m fascinated by one of the latest discoveries. I think about it multiple times a day. First came the humans.txt, and now people start to gather /page-names created on websites. Why? Because it’s human and hand-crafted. Made by love and fun.

Robb Knight started with Shellsharks to reference them. He published slashpages.net to get common grounds and put it in a blog post. At the time of writing, the following pages are referenced:

/about: a page all about you
/blogroll: a list of other sites that you read, are a follower of, or recommend
/changelog or /log: a summary of changes to your website
/colophon or /architecture: a page that describes how the site is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies
/contact: a way for people to contact you
/defaults: a list of the apps you uses for various tasks, usually based on the list from Hemispheric Views 097
/follow or /subscribe or /feeds: a page listing your RSS/Atom/JSON feeds and other way to subscribe to your posts
/hello: a single page listing the ways that you prefer to keep in touch
/ideas: things people want to make, or concepts they are considering
/interests: a place for website authors to list out things they’re passionate about and expound on what it is about those things that excites them
/links or /bookmarks: a list of links to sites you want link to, share, or bookmark for future reference. /links is also commonly used for a list of links to the website owners other sites and online accounts
/nope: a list of things you don’t like or don’t want to do
/now: a page that tells you what this person is focused on at this point in their life
/podroll: a list of podcasts that you recommend
/save: a list of referral links and discount codes for things you recommend
/sitemap: list of pages on a website. It is often built in XML, but a more human-friendly one can be created.
/uses: details of the things you use on a daily basis.

Shellsharks added more pages on a mastodon comment

/architecture (similar to /colophon)
/carry: an every day carry (EDC) list
/defaults
/favorites
/til

fLaMEd commented about a /slashes page that repertories every slash page. /pages or /slashpages can be relevant names too.

I add /humans.txt. A page related to /reviews can be created, or ones for each media /books, /movies, etc… We could also add a /travel for the different places we’ve been to. Robb Knight has a /projects page for the things he built, /notes for small notes. /explore is a human readable format of a /sitemap.xml grouped by topic. The /explore page group the slashpages and every other website resources.

Slashpages offer a lot of fun, building and experimentation. One page, one small project that can be maintained over time.