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Fire Chicken Webring

25 points by stefankuehnel 3y ago

FLpxpyJ 3y ago
bruh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38268706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38268706
- Minor49er 3y ago
  The author of that post is also the person who created Fire Chicken https://github.com/bahlo/firechicken.club https://github.com/bahlo/firechicken.club https://arne.me/ https://arne.me/
loxias 3y ago
Oh hells yeah bring back webrings. I'm gonna make a personal website just to hop on the bandwagon. Make the internet 1999 again.
skybrian 3y ago
I guess the name is just random? These websites don't seem to have anything to do with fire chicken. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buldak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buldak
- solardev 3y ago
  Interesting. "Fire chicken" is also what they call turkeys in China. 火鸡 https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/%E7%81%AB%E9%9B%9E?wprov=sfla1 https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/%E7%81%AB%E9%9B%9E?wprov=sfla...
mr_cyborg 3y ago
I love this and support it wholeheartedly.
ChrisArchitect 3y ago
Lots of webring talk this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38268706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38268706 And Related last week: Ask HN: Why is there no effort to bring back webrings? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38177128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38177128 And this thread with some 'rings and related threads listed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37577861 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37577861
sli 3y ago
I've been working on a silly personal website for a while for this exact reason: starting a webring. Specifically, I've decided to just reject replacing the social media platforms I've left. It's lovely to see others bringing back webrings.
aaron695 3y ago
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HankB99 3y ago
Seems a little fragile. I don't see how to get past https://flbn.sh/ https://flbn.sh/
- voigt 3y ago
  This is the „beauty“ of web rings. Low tech, but brittle if not everyone plays to the rules xD
  - thelastparadise 3y ago
    Wonder if we could get a multipath routing/BGP-style ring going.
    - loxias 3y ago
      Sure, we could. IIRC they were less "broken" with frames (modulo aesthetic taste) but honestly I don't see the problem with the ring "breaking". Browsers have back buttons; brains do tree search. If I'm to be an internet reactionary I'd commit to the bit -- underlined blue text to indicate a link, URLs that don't break, active use of the back button and history, etc. =)

25 points by stefankuehnel 3y ago

FLpxpyJ 3y ago

bruh: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38268706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38268706

Minor49er 3y ago
The author of that post is also the person who created Fire Chicken https://github.com/bahlo/firechicken.club https://github.com/bahlo/firechicken.club https://arne.me/ https://arne.me/

loxias 3y ago

Oh hells yeah bring back webrings. I'm gonna make a personal website just to hop on the bandwagon. Make the internet 1999 again.

skybrian 3y ago

I guess the name is just random? These websites don't seem to have anything to do with fire chicken. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buldak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buldak

solardev 3y ago
Interesting. "Fire chicken" is also what they call turkeys in China. 火鸡 https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/%E7%81%AB%E9%9B%9E?wprov=sfla1 https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/%E7%81%AB%E9%9B%9E?wprov=sfla...

mr_cyborg 3y ago

I love this and support it wholeheartedly.

ChrisArchitect 3y ago

Lots of webring talk this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38268706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38268706 And Related last week: Ask HN: Why is there no effort to bring back webrings? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38177128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38177128 And this thread with some 'rings and related threads listed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37577861 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37577861

sli 3y ago

I've been working on a silly personal website for a while for this exact reason: starting a webring. Specifically, I've decided to just reject replacing the social media platforms I've left. It's lovely to see others bringing back webrings.

aaron695 3y ago

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HankB99 3y ago

Seems a little fragile. I don't see how to get past https://flbn.sh/ https://flbn.sh/

voigt 3y ago
This is the „beauty“ of web rings. Low tech, but brittle if not everyone plays to the rules xD
- thelastparadise 3y ago
  Wonder if we could get a multipath routing/BGP-style ring going.
  - loxias 3y ago
    Sure, we could. IIRC they were less "broken" with frames (modulo aesthetic taste) but honestly I don't see the problem with the ring "breaking". Browsers have back buttons; brains do tree search. If I'm to be an internet reactionary I'd commit to the bit -- underlined blue text to indicate a link, URLs that don't break, active use of the back button and history, etc. =)