Moonjump is a server that redirects you to a random page harvested from Are.na, Hacker News, Marginalia Search, and Gossip Web. This project aims to spark curiosity and provide a portal to the vast collection of interesting material hidden by the commercial web.
The source material is aggregated with care by users of these platforms. Since this accumulation is performed by hand, pages are saved because they had an effect on the users who saved them. The goal is to find something that has an effect on you.
For Are.na, the dictionary of channels that the app pulls from is weighted by the number of pages in the channel. Channels with the most pages are more likely to be selected.
Moonjump makes a decision for you by selecting something random from a deep sea of unconventional content. Results may be peculiar, profound, or absolute nonsense. But you can always close the tab and jump again.
The search engine is powered by Marginalia. I have to admit that the existence of Marginalia is a huge inspiration for Moonjump. Search queries on Moonjump use the Marginalia API to redirect you to a random result.
The easiest way to jump is to click the large logo at the center of the homepage. You can also add https://moonjump.app/jump to your bookmarks bar.
If you are an OSX user and have hammerspoon installed, check the github repo for instructions on how to jump via a keyboard shortcut.
Woah that one’s great - saving that to my personal list! The fun thing about this is the source material is constantly being added to so it’s pretty damn near a never ending list. Still get some repeats though, I’ll look into reducing that when I have time
Moonjump is a server that redirects you to a random page harvested from Are.na, Hacker News, Marginalia Search, and Gossip Web. This project aims to spark curiosity and provide a portal to the vast collection of interesting material hidden by the commercial web.
The source material is aggregated with care by users of these platforms. Since this accumulation is performed by hand, pages are saved because they had an effect on the users who saved them. The goal is to find something that has an effect on you.
For Are.na, the dictionary of channels that the app pulls from is weighted by the number of pages in the channel. Channels with the most pages are more likely to be selected.
Moonjump makes a decision for you by selecting something random from a deep sea of unconventional content. Results may be peculiar, profound, or absolute nonsense. But you can always close the tab and jump again.
The search engine is powered by Marginalia. I have to admit that the existence of Marginalia is a huge inspiration for Moonjump. Search queries on Moonjump use the Marginalia API to redirect you to a random result.
The easiest way to jump is to click the large logo at the center of the homepage. You can also add https://moonjump.app/jump to your bookmarks bar.
If you are an OSX user and have hammerspoon installed, check the github repo for instructions on how to jump via a keyboard shortcut.
github: https://github.com/ya1sec/moonjump