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This webring isn't so much a ring as a wire, as one of the websites doesn't have the footer. This was always the problem with webrings in the first place - one
by estambar 3y ago
This webring isn't so much a ring as a wire, as one of the websites doesn't have the footer. This was always the problem with webrings in the first place - one broken link in the chain ruins it for everyone.
Just like token ring based LANs
- anemoknee 3y agoWeb rung?
- fuzztester 3y agoNice. Let's see ... I sprung from rung to rung Skipping past the dung On my wall let it be hung That my feats remain unsung
- gerikson 3y agoJust rebrand them as WebDAGs.
- estambar 3y agoI kind of like this idea, but then instead of just left and right arrows I want to be able to travel in a multi-dimensional space :)
- appplication 3y agoThis could be pretty basic browser extension. A little banner at the top or bottom: “websites like this one”
- scottyah 3y agoOr website curators all agree on a /webring.txt file (similar to a robots.txt) where they list websites they think are similar?
- JohnFen 3y agoAn important part of what made webrings good, though, was that they were curated (some more than others, but still...) Having sites just list others the site owners think are similar is just the site providing a list of links to "friend sites" -- which also used to be a common thing. That's also fun and useful, but not what webrings are about.
- joemi 3y agoI'm not sure I see the difference in curation between a webring and a "other cool sites" list, except that in the webring case there needs to be a central curator across several sites, so it's effectively just a single person's "other cool sites" list spread across several sites. "Other cool sites" lists were quite popular back then. That's what I used for site discovery instead of webrings.
- JohnFen 3y agoThe best webrings were curated by topic rather than just being a list of sites the ringmaster likes.
- kdwikzncba 3y agoLinks to friend sites - does this have a name? As a way of discovering content, I love the idea.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoOr... or.... a little banner that says, "From around the Web:"!
- phailhaus 3y agoLinks between websites in a sort of hyper-dimensional space! A...hyper-link?
- brnt 3y agoLast I checked, rings were usually cyclic.
- lebean 3y ago[dead]
- fuzztester 3y agoAnd also commutative, if I remember my math right, so you can traverse them in both directions. Punning on the word ring (which is a math concept too, as in groups, rings and fields, and stretching the metaphor too, or is it a mixed metaphor? Heh.
- meragrin_ 3y agoDirected acyclic graphs?
- bsuvc 3y agoIt should be possible to periodicallt crawl the ring participants and exclude them if they don't have the footer, right?
- 6510 3y agoCould do that before the user is forwarded to the website. Remove them for a day, then 2, then 4, then 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 etc it is not expensive to keep checking. Could send email too. You'd probably want to measure click though rate and do manual review. Could also have a redirecting page so that the back button allows the visitor to flag or report something.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoBut definitely only remove them for powers of two days, because... geek cred.
- 6510 3y agoI use it for rss feeds, it really follows how likely it is for a feed to return. Checking every day was slowing things down.
- JohnFen 3y agoYes, good webrings always needed an active ringmaster. I do think webrings are badly needed again, though, to serve the same purpose they were developed for in the first place: discoverability. It's become very difficult to find the good (according to my tastes) websites these days.
- fuzztester 3y agoSame here. Very difficult.