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The Digital Antiquarian

www.filfre.net · a site they built themselves · publishing since 2011

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The Digital Antiquarian publishes writing at www.filfre.net, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Publishing since 2011, by their own archive. Vouched for by 7 other writers in the index.

2,577 pages in their archive15 years at it83 dated posts since 20127 writers vouch

Posts per month, from their own dated linksMay 2018 to August 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20182018-03: 12018-10: 120202020-02: 120212021-01: 12021-06: 120222022-03: 12022-06: 22022-11: 120232023-01: 12023-07: 12023-08: 12023-12: 120242024-07: 120252025-07: 12025-08: 12025-12: 120262026-01: 12026-02: 12026-07: 232026-08: 28
fewermorepeak: 28 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

22018120202202142022420231202432025532026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 15

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 15, 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 2,577 the sitemap lists1 section found
Front page
217 KB, 18 scripts, 56 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, 23 other sites, 2 platforms
Found
2026-08-22, by following another writer's link

The lag

2011writing since2026the almanac

Writing since 2011. The Internet Archive first captured the site in 2010. The big engines rank it about 231,307 among all domains. The almanac found it in August 2026, by following another writer's link.

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

maxis2driving147game964drive335simulation35aspirational6maher8volkswagen5interactive178test271wpcontent34jimmy43accolade25sport185

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 vouches4 writers in the index

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

Their neighbourhood

Undo Restart RestoAnthony AvinaTrotting KripsObscuritoryRenga in BlueObscuritory25 sites outside the indexThe Digital Antiquarian
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Renga in Blue, Obscuritory.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: still publishing · publishing since 2011 · no optimization at all · vouched by 7 other writers

How the machine sees this site

  • Ranked about 231,307 in the top million domains.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • 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.
  • The navigation carries a commercial page or two.

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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