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I've not come across the concept of a webring before - but this is cool.

I feel like adding a link back to the ring (or at least next page) should be mandatory - else it feels a bit broken (I know the frameset version is there but feels less elegant). The third page ("https://finalkey.net/") in the ring when i was navigating had no explicit mention of the ring on the landing page...and that feels unfair?

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I totally get that, and I've considered the pros and cons. For now, I'll have it be entirely optional, since getting people to join is kind of difficult to begin with.

That said, I might do something later on, to let the user choose to only browse sites with banners, so they don't need the frameset/iframe version, which have the problem of not always working/being allowed.

> Linkback/using the widget is encouraged but optional!

It's apparently by design.

Yeah some of the old ones from the 90s would render the ring in a separate frame so you could keep your place in the ring while navigating each page.

Yep I had the same issue and thought when I got to finalkey. I hit a random site after that and landed on another site where I couldn't find the link.

Got me thinking a browser extension could be useful for this type of thing.

Edit: there's iframes to solve this!

I _used_ to be a huge fan of stumble-upon, but at some point they added too much algorithm to it, and something else behind the curtain went south and it just started sucking.

Edit: StumBleUpon was a browser plugin (optionally, you could also use their frameset version at least earlier on), that would try to learn your interests based on previous sites you liked/disliked.

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