Nice little piece, I guess.
But I just can't make heads or tails _at all_ about what exactly this website is. Someone's blog? Collective input? No obvious "About" section? What am I missing?
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But I just can't make heads or tails _at all_ about what exactly this website is. Someone's blog? Collective input? No obvious "About" section? What am I missing?
It was originally designed as a more general wiki (the name is a pun of C2 ) and then evolved into a a quasi-literary, quasi-blog thing, with thousands of contributors.
Its key features were a supremely easy way to create links between articles ("nodes") as well as empty links ("nodeshells") for others to fill in, encouraging sprawl but also connectivity; a rich voting and reward system, chat and messages, bookmarks, lists - if we had all had a half a brain, we could've pivoted to Medium or Substack no problem.
A couple of things I'm proud of there
https://everything2.com/user/kthejoker/writeups/Snuff+Etique... - this is an example of filling a nodeshell someone else created with ... something not intended but appropriate
https://everything2.com/user/kthejoker/writeups/Ghosts+I+hav... - using the annual Halloween writing event, I shared a personal story about Alzheimer's
And some great stuff by others
https://everything2.com/title/Around+nine+PM+my+heart+was+br...
https://everything2.com/title/You+love+these+machines.+These...
https://everything2.com/title/Why+the+willow+weeps?author_id...
https://everything2.com/title/How+to+brush+your+teeth+in+a+c...
And I think this is my favorite, I think of it often!
https://everything2.com/title/Me+and+Sue+and+Ricky+and+God
But there's just a ton of great stuff on there.