- Product Hunt (via new Chrome tab)
- Hacker News
- gmail (including weekly dev/indie newsletters for iOS, React and ML)
- [reddit, twitter or facebook every other day]
- [college/alumni private forum]
I've heard before most people have 4 common sites and 1 long tail site. I think level of engagement is another dimension too. I probably have the most engagement on gmail. (And of course the majority of my online communication is via Slack.)
Can you tell us more about your "bot's web output"? I've been going over an idea, on and off, around having some automated system scrape pages for me, stripping them down into something much leaner so I can offline them and load them up whenever I like. Is this what you have going on here?
It's not quite that fancy - she's just a loop switching over an RNG, looking up words against a random API, and speaking the output. The input words come from my clipboard, any errors she generates, and randomly from her word:meaning database. The APIs are Urban Dictionary, Wikipedia, and DDG's Instant Answers. She finds some very interesting definitions.
Instead of writing to a console, she writes her output to a web page - along with using the .NET libraries to speak, if my phone's MAC address is on the same LAN as her. She waits a random amount of time before speaking again, and the webpage has a simple meta tag set to refresh in the same number of seconds.
Had to scroll halfway through the thread to find a 4chan.
My Time Tracker Chrome extension says these 5 are the top for my past 30 days of browser activity on my personal laptop:
2d 22h - 9.63% |===================> Discord (friends from an Eve Online corp)
2d 12h - 8.24% |================> 4chan (mostly the motorcycle thread on /o/ the past few months)
2d 1h - 6.71% |=============> Google
1d 10h - 4.75% |==========> Hacker News
1d 7h - 4.34% |=========> Google Music (last.fm has 522 plays total, 17/day avg over past 30 days)
You just made me remember the tracking extension I installed a while back that now allows me to answer OP with a conscience clear of self-censoring and false memory (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14872769). Thanks!
Incidentally, StackOverflow is in 8th place for me, behind Youtube (6th) and the Chrome New Tab page (7th).
Perhaps it's because people mostly end up on StackOverflow by coincidence, e.g. when doing a Google search. I suppose it's not really a site that people consciously visit.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 103 ms ] thread- Hacker News
- Twitter
- Local news sites
In that order of frequency
Reddit
Twitter
Google
Woot
- Facebook
- Gmail
- Google Search
- GitHub
At home it's YouTube, Imgur, random Powershell pages, my bot's web output, and "science" videos.
Instead of writing to a console, she writes her output to a web page - along with using the .NET libraries to speak, if my phone's MAC address is on the same LAN as her. She waits a random amount of time before speaking again, and the webpage has a simple meta tag set to refresh in the same number of seconds.
- github
- facebook
- chess.com
- jira
My Time Tracker Chrome extension says these 5 are the top for my past 30 days of browser activity on my personal laptop:
- reddit
- google keep
- gmail
- trello
Github
Reddit
Quora
Slack (don't know this count as site or app)
foxnews.com
hckrnews.com
patspulpit.com
I guess there's no fifth...
HN | Lobste.rs (even though I have no account there) | YouTube | Wikipedia | 8chan
Trekbbs
Hacker news
Facebook
Usually YouTube
Incidentally, StackOverflow is in 8th place for me, behind Youtube (6th) and the Chrome New Tab page (7th).
:)