About url.town

Web directories are as old as the web. They were an early (and for a while, the only) solution to the challenge of collecting and discovering interesting and useful links. Before search engines, this was how we found cool stuff online.

Time passed, and this approach to finding things faded. But at this particular point in time, with a rising interest in cultivating a truly open and social web, the mighty web directory may once again see some relevance and usefulness. Spaces where people are in full control over what is shared (and how it’s shared) are exceptionally important now, and this aims to be one of them.

url.town doesn’t have any overly lofty ambitions; we’re just building our own directory of really nice websites. We’re not trying to fully recreate the original Yahoo! or DMOZ directories. We’re not aiming for some astronomical number of links. This is just one space on the web, tied to a community that loves to share neat things with one another. Quality matters much more than quantity. There’s no need to share everything just for the shake of sharing it; it’s much better to share things that are useful or interesting.

ℹ️ How things work here

• We have two levels of categories: primary and secondary. Primary categories hold secondary categories, and secondary categories hold URLs.
• URLs can only be assigned to a single category, but they can have any number of tags.

👍 Acceptable URLs

• Fun stuff
• Cool stuff
• Useful stuff
• ...ideally made by fun, cool, nice people

🙅 Unacceptable URLs

• Harmful stuff
• Mean stuff
• Stuff made by or with AI

As a service of omg.lol, the same Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Acceptable Use Policy applies, as well as the Code of Conduct.