One of the many things I disagree with Scott Alexander on is that to me, frequent blog updates signal poor quality not excellent writing. Its hard to come up with an independent, evidence-based opinion on something worth sharing every week, but easy to post about what you read lots of angry or scary posts about. People who post a lot also tend to have trouble finding useful things to do in their offline life. It is very unusual that he managed to be both a psychiatrist and a prolific blogger and he quit the psychiatry job before he had children or other care responsibilities.

I have a "frequent post" section of my blog and a "deeper" section. Unless you're interested in the frequent posts they aren't in your face on my blog. It's kind of a best of both worlds type thing.

The frequent posts also let me quickly try out new methods of telling stories or presenting information or new techniques. I think this tends to speed up how often I post larger effort things cuz I can practice skills with frequent posts.

A good comparison would be a youtuber with a patreon. The youtube gets the produced media, whereas the patreon gets "cell phone in the moment" updates.

but i totally agree that when folks are finding things to post about that can be problematic and annoying.

> frequent blog updates signal poor quality not excellent writing

it might be true, but there are exceptions, like acoup (history-focused), which is written by ancient history professor.

I'm with you. Also, sometimes I'm specifically looking for some dusty old site that has long been forgotten about. Maybe I'm trying to find something I remember from ages ago. Or maybe I'm trying to deeply research something.

There's a lot more to fixing search than prioritizing recency. In fact, I think recency bias sometimes makes search worse.

To clarify criteria is less than 2 years since last blog post.

You may want to clarify that on https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb because the README there says:

> Blog has recent posts (<7 days old)

This may be different than inclusion criteria for websites in general, but on first read it looks like it has to be very active.

I might have missed something while skimming it, but would assume others would miss it as well.

There's two criteria, I agree it's hard to skim:

* The blog must have a recent post, no older than 12 months, to meet the recency criteria for inclusion.

* Criteria for posts to show on the website: Blog has recent posts (<7 days old), The website can appear in an iframe

The latter criteria is for the website / post to appear in Kagi's random Small Web feature, where they display the blog post in an iframe. (So I think only posts from the last week are displayed there.) Being on the list should ensure that any new posts could be displayed in Small Web though, and presumably that the website is indexed in Kagi's Teclis index as well. At least, I really hope that the Teclis index is including all of those old blog posts too, and not discarding them.

EDIT: I just realized freediver actually is Vladimir - I'd love to know if Teclis does index all those older blog posts too. I assume it does index everything that is still present in the RSS feeds?

Thank you. I swear I read that three times and missed the other criteria until you pointed it out and then I found it. :/

also kagi exclude non-English sites. Sad for mixed language blogs like mine.

I know kagi doesn't do it, but it is possible to specify language in the feed (xml:lang) such that a feed reader can filter languages the user doesn't understand out of multi-language feeds. One challenge is that lots of bloggers forget to add that tag.

start a small web directory for your language!