# Bubbles.town

16 Hacker News commenters recommended Bubbles.town and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** A Hacker News-style front page for personal blogs, ranked by votes from real people, with RSS support that people find calmer than social feeds. Critics say it still surfaces many rants and some low-quality posts.

## Why people recommend it

- Quiet, personal sites instead of SEO (4 comments): "The feed is refreshingly quiet and actually feels like browsing personal sites instead of corporate SEO bait." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630103)) "a post by a curated human is much more likely to be interesting than the majority slop of /new" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573487)) "It feels really refreshing compared to doomscrolling of social media" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568285))
- Human-curated, voted front page (3 comments): "a post by a curated human is much more likely to be interesting than the majority slop of /new" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573487)) "the front page is created by real people voting" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629617)) "Federated voting and comments on top of RSS has an indie-web elegance to it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575433))
- Excerpts and RSS support (2 comments): "showing the excerpts from the post text is vastly superior to just showing the post titles" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570382)) "Thanks for adding RSS! Bringing Bubbles (and HN) into NetNewsWire is a game-changer" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574162))

## What people warn about

- Feels like doomscrolling (2 comments): "it feels just like a worse doomscroll than social media" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48801382)) "It feels really refreshing compared to doomscrolling of social media" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568285))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Kagi Small Web](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kagi-small-web.md): 46 recommend
- [Wander small web explorer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wander.md): 31 recommend
- [Ooh.directory](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ooh-directory.md): 26 recommend
- [Personal blog frontpage](https://hackerapproved.com/p/personal-blog-frontpage.md): 21 recommend
- [RSS.Social](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rss-social.md): 14 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://bubbles.town/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Bubbles.town", https://hackerapproved.com/p/bubbles/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).