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The Toast

the-toast.net · a site they built themselves

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The Toast publishes writing at the-toast.net, a site they built themselves. Last published December 2016. Vouched for by 4 other writers in the index.

36 dated posts since 20144 writers vouch

Posts per month, from their own dated linksNovember 2014 to July 2016

JFMAMJJASOND20142014-11: 120152015-02: 12015-03: 12015-08: 120162016-01: 32016-03: 12016-04: 22016-05: 12016-06: 212016-07: 4
fewermorepeak: 21 in June 2016

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

1201432015322016

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 12

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 12, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured1 section found
Front page
74 KB, 9 scripts, 42 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Trackers
present
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 2 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-09-07, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

ortberg1advice248cliffe2acid30finck3celt3liana4linguist15businesslady1nicole69mallory20comment1598aunt100adrienne21

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 vouches3 writers in the index

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

Their neighbourhood

Gretchen McCullochCarmen Maria MachaOlivia Waite2 sites outside the indexThe Toast
in the indexoutside itthis writer

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: vouched by 4 other writers

How the machine sees this site

  • Ranked about 170,086 in the top million domains.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • Some tracking is present.
  • Carries a full set of search-engine tags. This site is trying to be found, and the almanac scores that against it.

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.

Every figure on this page was measured from the site itself and says where it came from. Nothing is quoted from the writing and nothing is written by a model. Something wrong? One email corrects it: hello@longhandalmanac.com. Want out of the index? Same address, or two lines in your robots.txt (how), and this page is gone the next morning.