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I really like webrings, I wonder why they aren't as popular any more. I wonder if I should create something that lets you make your own webrings, just define a list of sites, add the link, and that's it.

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I think Awesome lists kind of fit this bill. I know it's not the same UX as a webring, but it seems like having an index view would suffice. It's more utilitarian and less experiential, but would be much easier to manage and track.

Did webrings have more features than just the list of sites, like voting and stuff? I honestly don't remember.

After further thought, Awesome lists miss one critical thing: there's no way to navigate from the pages in the list back to the index or to other pages in the list. That's a pretty crucial feature of webrings.

Usually those are paid for by webmasters, such as with linkfarm.net

Hm, but that's not a webring, is it? A webring links from one site to the next, but linkfarm (as I understand it) links from multiple sites to one.

No https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm

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