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theKovah OP t1_j1n71n7 wrote

Reply to comment by Smarty-Pants65 in Cloudhiker: Randomly discover the most interesting, weird or funny websites of the internet like in the old StumbleUpon days by theKovah

Sadly, this is just a security measurement that both browsers and websites must or can enforce.

For example, you can’t embed any http website if https is enabled. Additionally, websites can tell browsers that they don’t want to be embedded anywhere.

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SpeedAtNight t1_j1niodi wrote

You're probably gonna have a lot of hits for that StumbleUpon nostalgia, but sadly the internet isn't what it was back then so I imagine the results can be a bit more generic or like you say, have security requirements requiring a direct load on the site.

Best of luck, I'd recommend you find some feature or concept that entices people to keep using your service. Nostalgia is great and all, but people get bored quickly.

Might be worth putting in a toggle option to ignore sites that won't render on your website directly. Not sure how you'd do it, but I imagine you could make it seamless to the user and if the page throws a security error just move to the next site to display.

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theKovah OP t1_j1nkrot wrote

Thank you for your honest feedback. I agree that the internet is definitely something else today. Fortunately, there is no need to "grow" or keep anyone on the site by all means. I just hope that people enjoy the site and remember it every now and then.

>Might be worth putting in a toggle option to ignore sites that won't render on your website directly.

You can do than when signed in, with the "Hide Sites that can't be displayed directly" option in your account settings. Probably something that can be made mode visible.

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saltpot3816 t1_j1q1m1t wrote

I know this is a whole other project, but could do do this as a standalone app, essentially a custom built web browser (eg based on chromium)? Or maybe for desktop, could build as a chrome extension, and a mobile app?

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