Wander Console 0.5.0 is out. It is the fifth release of Wander, a small, decentralised, self-hosted web console that lets visitors to your website explore interesting websites and pages recommended by a community of independent website owners. To try it, go to susam.net/wander/. To learn more about how it works and how to set it up on your website, see the project README.

A screenshot of Wander Console

The big feature in this release is a built-in console network crawler. To try the console crawler, go to susam.net/wander/ > Console > Crawl. It performs a breadth-first search (BFS) traversal of the Wander network and lists all discovered consoles and page recommendations in a single pane.

A screenshot of Wander Console Crawler

If you have set up a Wander Console instance for yourself on your website, I recommend upgrading to the latest version to use this feature. It is fun to find out just how many Wander consoles belong to your neighbourhood. To upgrade, you only need to download the Wander Console bundle mentioned here and replace your existing Wander `index.html` with the new one.

If you own a personal website but have not set up a Wander Console yet, I suggest that you consider setting one up for yourself. You can see what it looks like by visiting mine at /wander/. To set up your own, follow these instructions from the README: Install. It just involves copying two files to your web server. It is as simple as that.