Miscellaneous

It has been a very long time since we published a your view type article. These were typically questions of a controversial nature designed to get the comments flowing and community growing. Today, however, I am publishing a different type of Your View. Due to recent changes in the online…

Ten years ago on this day I published the first list on Listverse. When I started out I was trialling a few other sites too, which ultimately didn’t catch on but Listverse did well from the very first day thanks to social media sharing. Over the following ten years we had many monumental changes,…

As some of you may be aware, we are launching a brand new site redesign this year. The main focus of the redesign is speed, stability, and ease of use. It will also involve a style refresh. One very significant change we are hoping to introduce is the removal of Disqus for our commenting platform…

Insane asylums were big business back in the early 1900s, and nearly anyone could be declared “insane” and sent to an asylum. In a newspaper report from 1903, an asylum physician admits: A person to be tried in Kentucky for lunacy is often hauled before a jury of as ignorant, illiterate,…