Bet you didn’t know that a handful of people wrote 15,000 articles about roads in the US! Well, the editors behinds have left Wikipedia behind and started their own site.
Despite minor disagreements, the US Roads Project mostly worked in harmony, but recently, a long-simmering debate over the website’s rules drove this community to the brink. Efforts at compromise fell apart. There was a schism, and in the fall of 2023, the editors packed up their articles and moved over to a website dedicated to roads and roads alone. It’s called AARoads, a promised land where the editors hope, at last, that they can find peace.
See, this is what I fucking love about the internet.
If you don’t like something, you can build your own thing.
Sure, AARoads might not get the views and traffic that Wikepieda provides, but… life is more than views and traffic, right?
It’s about writing, stories, history, humanity.
Split up the cost of a domain name and website hosting and you’ve got something sustainable and organic that you can hold onto for many years.
(via Simon Owens)