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Fun & Games
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Neal.funA collection of interactive web projects by American indie developer Neal Agarwal: dozens of free browser games and visual experiments such as The Password Game, Infinite Craft and The Deep Sea, all instantly playable with no account.
Online-Go.com (OGS)A free online Go (baduk) server in the browser: real-time and correspondence games, spectating and game study, roughly 59,000 user-made tsumego puzzles, an interactive beginner course and tournaments, with an AGPL-licensed web client.
LichessA free, ad-free, open-source online chess platform with games at every time control, 8 variants, tactical puzzles, engine analysis, tournament broadcasts and collaborative study tools, run by a French non-profit association.
GeoGuessrGeoGuessr drops players into a random Google Street View panorama and has them locate it on a world map using clues like road signs and license plates. Free accounts get only the Daily Challenge; other modes need a subscription.
Every Noise at OnceA music discovery site that maps Spotify's 6,291 genres as a clickable acoustic scatter plot — every genre name plays a sample and links to artist maps and playlists; the map has been a static snapshot since late 2023.
MusicBrainzAn open music encyclopedia run by the nonprofit MetaBrainz Foundation — a volunteer-maintained structured music metadata database whose core data is public domain (CC0), with a free API, full data downloads, and the Picard tagging app.
LetterboxdA New Zealand–founded social network for film lovers since 2011: log films in a diary, rate on a five-star scale with halves, write reviews, build lists, and check where to stream. Free with ads; Pro/Patron tiers remove ads and add stats.
Douban（豆瓣）A Chinese online database and interest community for books, films and music, launched in 2005, where user ratings and reviews aggregate on subject pages that anyone can browse without an account.
DiscogsA crowdsourced record database with an integrated second-hand marketplace, online since 2000; as of September 2026 it lists more than 19 million releases, plus collection tools, a public API, and CC0 data exports.
GoodreadsAmazon's social cataloging site for books, launched in 2007 and reporting more than 150 million members by 2023, known for bookshelves, ratings, reviews, and the annual Reading Challenge.
itch.ioAn open marketplace for indie games launched in 2013, where anyone can publish without approval, developers set the platform's own revenue share (0–100%, default 10%), and game jams are a core community ritual.
BandcampOnline record store and music community where artists and labels sell digital music, vinyl, CDs, cassettes, and merch directly to fans. Launched in 2008, it takes 15% on digital and 10% on physical sales; on average 82% reaches artists.
WhoSampledLondon-born database, launched in 2008, mapping how songs connect through samples, interpolations, covers, and remixes; entries are community-submitted and human-moderated, 1.37M+ songs as of 2026-09-02. Owned by Spotify since 2025.
MyAnimeListLaunched in 2004, MyAnimeList is the largest English-language anime and manga database and community: user-maintained entries, 1–10 scoring, twice-daily weighted rankings, and an official API. Owned by Tokyo-based Gaudiy since May 2025.
BoardGameGeekBoard game database and community launched in January 2000, built almost entirely by its users: 150,000+ games with ratings, reviews, and images for ~4 million registered users, plus the BGG Rank, the hobby's most cited leaderboard.
IMDbAmazon-owned database of movies, TV shows, video games and the people behind them, covering 12M+ titles and 16M+ names, best known for weighted user ratings and Top 250 charts. Free and ad-supported; most data is user-contributed.
SteamValve's PC game distribution platform, launched in 2003. The web store can be browsed without signing in, but playing requires the Steam client. Known for user reviews, Workshop, Community Market and a 14-day/2-hour refund policy.
ZhihuChina's largest Q&A-inspired content community (per the company), built around long-form answers, columns, roundtables, the paid Yanxuan membership and the Zhida AI search. Homepage and hot list require sign-in; Explore pages are public.
BackloggdA free video game tracker and review community run by a solo developer — log playthroughs, rate, review and build lists on IGDB data, 'Letterboxd for games.'
SerializdSerializd is a free indie TV-tracking community for shows only — per-episode ratings, reviews and lists, often called 'Letterboxd for TV.' Web, iOS and Android; data from TMDB.