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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 broken link in the chain ruins it for everyone. Just like token ring based LANs
Just rebrand them as WebDAGs.
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
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.
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I 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 :)
This could be pretty basic browser extension. A little banner at the top or bottom: “websites like this one”
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
Ask HN: Why is there no effort to bring back webrings?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38177128
And this thread with some 'rings and related threads listed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37577861
The sad truth about webpages is that people don't want to maintain them. People will put in their weekend project, and then the webpage sits there for the rest of eternity whether or not its relevant, and then what? When do you update the webring so that they add and/or remove pages?
Here's another idea: you put up links regularly to a webpage that dynamically sorts them by popularity, relevance, and date. Oh wait, that's Reddit.