are.na

Taryn

“If Pinterest and tumblr had a baby that went to grad school. Seems to be popular with graphic designers and academics (I am neither) but I always find something interesting here that I wouldn’t see anywhere else.”

Katharina

“I love it so much I pay money for it. A much better Pinterest. More useful. You can still create boards/collections and organize stuff. You can scroll other people's stuff for inspiration (better quality than Pinterest). But no ads. Not really a social platform. Almost worse than the ads on Pinterest are the incessant toddler birthday party ideas. This is not that.”

Iris Anais

“I almost feel like I'm exposing a secret but are.na is the coolest site to exist even if it's nearly impossible to explain. If you like to collect internet artifacts like websites, photos, documents, resources, articles, digital gardens, and cool-ass homepages, and don't want things to be presented to you via an algorithm then you are (unfortunately) missing out! it does cost $$ to have more than”