videogames

Warp Point is a directory and webring for independent gaming blogs and newsletters. Unremarkable in 1999 yet almost radical now. Built by Wes Fenlon and Matt Sayer, explicitly modelled on ooh.directory, the idea is to rebuild homegrown networks that fansites and webrings used to foster before recommendation engines flattened everything into a feed of whatever’s already popular.

Worth noting their one editorial line: they’re not accepting Substack submissions, on the grounds that they’d rather build a network effect that doesn’t feed Substack’s platform ambitions. Great choice.