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how to save the world

howtosavetheworld.ca · a site they built themselves · publishing since 2003

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how to save the world publishes short stories at howtosavetheworld.ca, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Publishing since 2003, by their own archive. Vouched for by 2 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

3,901 pages in their archive23 years at it265 dated posts since 20032 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksMarch 2019 to August 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20192019-02: 22019-04: 22019-05: 22019-06: 12019-09: 32019-10: 12019-11: 22019-12: 220202020-01: 32020-02: 12020-03: 12020-04: 22020-05: 42020-06: 32020-07: 32020-08: 12020-09: 32020-10: 22020-11: 22020-12: 120212021-01: 12021-02: 32021-03: 22021-04: 12021-05: 12021-06: 42021-07: 12021-09: 12021-10: 32021-11: 22021-12: 320222022-01: 22022-02: 22022-03: 12022-04: 22022-05: 22022-06: 12022-07: 22022-08: 22022-09: 62022-10: 42022-11: 220232023-01: 42023-02: 22023-03: 32023-05: 12023-06: 12023-07: 42023-08: 12023-09: 22023-10: 22023-11: 22023-12: 120242024-01: 22024-03: 12024-04: 42024-06: 12024-07: 12024-08: 12024-09: 22024-10: 12024-11: 12024-12: 420252025-01: 12025-02: 32025-03: 42025-04: 32025-05: 32025-08: 220262026-05: 12026-06: 12026-08: 20
fewermorepeak: 20 in August 2026

Counted from links on their own pages whose paths carry a year and a month. That reaches only the pages the crawl has seen, so early years may be undercounted.

Posts per year

152019262020222021262022232023182024162025222026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 23

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 23, from their own archive. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured, of 3,901 the sitemap lists1 section found
Front page
242 KB, 11 scripts, 26 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 10 entries, the recent end only
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
2 other writers in the index, 69 other sites, 20 platforms
Found
2026-08-25, by following another writer's link

The lag

2003writing since2009archived2026the almanac

Writing since 2003. The Internet Archive first captured the site in 2009. The big engines have never ranked it. The almanac found it in August 2026, by following another writer's link.

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

pollard10species121collapse529dave112behaviour53civilization67nothing768human975individual347nonduality2needed421bark39culture628tribe55

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches2 writers in the index

2 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

Collapse of IndustBlogrollCollapse of IndustPluralistic89 sites outside the indexhow to save the world
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Collapse of Industrial Civilization, Pluralistic.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · publishing since 2003 · no optimization at all · vouched by 2 other writers

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • No description written for search engines and no schema. Nothing on the page was built to be found.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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