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Iffy Books

iffybooks.net · a site they built themselves · publishing since 2021

Read them at iffybooks.net → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

Iffy Books publishes zines about place & nature at iffybooks.net, a site they built themselves. Last published September 2026, still publishing this year. Publishing since 2021, 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.

411 pages in their archive5 years at it26 dated posts since 20222 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksSeptember 2022 to November 2023

JFMAMJJASOND20222022-09: 22022-11: 220232023-01: 22023-04: 22023-07: 22023-08: 42023-09: 22023-11: 10
fewermorepeak: 10 in November 2023

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

42022222023

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 5

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 5, from their own archive. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
12 captured, of 411 the sitemap lists
Front page
247 KB, 71 scripts, 33 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 52 entries, the whole archive
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 21 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-08-26, by following another writer's link

The lag

2021writing since2026the almanac

Writing since 2021. 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

mixxx1philadelphia61meetup36meshtastic2basixxx1united289unit110analog61liion1state815offline59fafio1neoluddite2cyberdeck2

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 vouches1 writer in the index

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

Their neighbourhood

delovely21 sites outside the indexIffy Books
in the indexoutside itthis writer

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · publishing since 2021 · 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 page tells search engines it belongs to a person.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.

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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