What Roster is
Roster is a free, hand-kept expedition log of the open web: 833 working websites, filed by a person into 22 waypoint sections. Each section is named for what a field crew would log there — Wagering Post, Field Provisions, Technical Toolkit, Crew Credentials, Dispatches, and so on. Every line in the log is a working URL, a short description, and a waypoint category.
This is a catalogue, not a search engine. It does not rank pages or guess intent. It holds a fixed roster of filed sites, each checked before filing, visible inside its waypoint within minutes of submission. The log stays short on purpose.
How a site gets logged
You paste a URL on the filing page, pick the waypoint it belongs in, and we file it. If you do not write a description, we fetch a one-line summary from your own page. The entry appears on the roster immediately. It is free and it stays free — Roster has no paid tier, no promoted slots, and no tracking pixels.
What gets filed, what gets returned
We file working websites — URLs that resolve to real content. We quietly return: dead links, parked-domain redirects, sites hidden behind a login wall from the first page, and anything that looks like a content farm or phishing site. We do not filter by topic, region, or language; we only check that the site is real and working.
Why a roster
The open web used to be navigated through small, hand-kept lists — Yahoo's original directory, dmoz, the Curlie tree. Roster is in that lineage, but shorter and slower. We collect 833 entries across 22 waypoints, not millions. The bet is that 22 legible waypoints are more useful than a search bar with a million answers behind it, because you can read the whole roster and know what is on it.