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A while ago, Morgan from circadian.gemlog.org created an aggregator that updates only once every 24 hours and called it yesterday's aggregator. This design was meant to ensure that posts get the same amount of exposure, regardless of whether they are posted early or late on some particular day. As a side effect, this design also proved to be a great way to combat the addictive affordances of live aggregators. If you already checked the aggregator once on a certain day, there is no point at all in checking it again, since you already know that there won't be any new posts.
Long story short, I quickly came to use yesterday.gemlog.org as the main (and pretty much only) aggregator I check regularly. Unfortunately, the uptime of that service has not been particularly reliable lately. So today, I created my own list of yesterday's posts which can be found here:
gemini://tilde.club/~seifferth/yesterday.gmi
This static page is updated by a cron job once a day, which will fetch the list of posts aggregated by antenna and extract only those dated one day in the past. In order to keep it simple, I scheduled the cron job to run at midnight of UTC-offset -1100. As far as I know, this should be the westernmost time zone that is actually inhabited. So this scheduling should allow to catch all posts from any time zone regardless of when exactly they were posted in the 49 hours of the preceding day. (If you find yourself posting form UTC-offset -1200 and still want your post to show up in this list, please make sure to submit your post to antenna before 11 PM local time, as the 50th hour of each day is simply ignored.) Also note that I decided to strip the farkle gamelog and spellbinding wordlog from this list, since I hardly ever want to read them. I might decide to do the same regarding other recurrent posts that I judge to be of little novelty value to myself. If this is a concern to you, feel free to run your own meta-aggregator and make your own decisions.
The original yesterday aggregator at yesterday.gemlog.org [currently down]
An archived copy of the original yesterday aggregator from 2024-08-31
Aggregators Tilt East [archived version]
Aggregators Tilt East [original version, currently down]
Yesterday's Posts [archived version]
Yesterday's Posts [original version, currently down]
Published on 2024-10-16 by Frank Seifferth (CC0)
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