Am I missing something? The person advocates for something that they don't use? I likely don't understand the idea behind it because I was expecting to see links to other pages on that page.
You need a webring
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Re: You need a webring
#52Am I missing something? The person advocates for something that they don't use? I likely don't understand the idea behind it because I was expecting to see links to other pages on that page.
It's the left and right arrows on the homepage. There's two rings.
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#53And you need to stop telling everyone what we need! "You might be interested in this if you have this and that" sounds so much more reasonable.
In this case it would be “you might be interested in this if you have an unexamined and irrational hankering for pointless mid-1990s web tech.”
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#54I followed the web ring on the home page and the first person didn't continue the ring (they had no link to next) and the second webring only contained one other site. Pretty disappointing introduction to something I "need".
Which site has no next button? I think some of them hide them put them in menus!
Thanks that helped me find them - my bad.
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#55Am I missing something? The person advocates for something that they don't use? I likely don't understand the idea behind it because I was expecting to see links to other pages on that page.
It's the left and right arrows on the homepage. There's two rings.
I see! It's on the home page, close to the top. I recall these next/prev on every page and either in nav or in the footer so completely missed those buttons. Thanks!
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#56> "By the time Yahoo stopped controlling webring.org in 2001, search engines had become good enough that web rings were no longer as useful."
Given how those good (enough) search engines work these days ... I wouldn't be surprised if we see more of the old social/discovery things things (DMOZ and such) start coming back.
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#57In a webring, do you usually always have the same fixed webring neighbours?
Back in the days, how did it usually work about this : If your neighbour has only 7 visitor/day but you do have 100/day, can you ask to change and have this other 10000 visitor/day-site as neighbour?
As a webring admin, how do you manage these member requests?
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#58Not sure I get it. Why a "ring"? Why not just have a list of web-site URLs on a page and share that page with your friends and ask them to put that page somewhere on their site? "Ring" means you are navigating linearly and circularly. Isn't it better to provide a list of links so users can choose where they want to go "next"? And why should I have to go around the whole "ring" to get back to where I started from? The…
A webring is a circular doubly linked list - to insert a new site, you only need two existing sites to update their links. It's decentralized and works with any tech stack, including editing a static HTML file. It's a little silly if everyone is working off a centrally-maintained JSON file, you might as well turn it into a blogroll at that point.
We could always build a DHT instead
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#59Not sure I get it. Why a "ring"? Why not just have a list of web-site URLs on a page and share that page with your friends and ask them to put that page somewhere on their site? "Ring" means you are navigating linearly and circularly. Isn't it better to provide a list of links so users can choose where they want to go "next"? And why should I have to go around the whole "ring" to get back to where I started from? The…
A ring can be extended by any single node without having to coordinate with everyone in the group.
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#60Not sure I get it. Why a "ring"? Why not just have a list of web-site URLs on a page and share that page with your friends and ask them to put that page somewhere on their site? "Ring" means you are navigating linearly and circularly. Isn't it better to provide a list of links so users can choose where they want to go "next"? And why should I have to go around the whole "ring" to get back to where I started from? The…
I used to hate and ignore webrings back in the days.
However I usually spent times in the links section of every website I visited.