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I miss webrings. I don't think that search getting better killed them (they are useful for reasons unrelated to the state of search), but when personal and hobbyist websites started vanishing, webrings went with them.

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Ironically, once search got better for the users, there was no further need to build comprehensive sites with great content in the hopes of getting added to webrings and directories. All sites need to worry about after were getting backlinks.

After that, sites also stop linking to each other.

Webrings were a great, essentially curated list of sites the authors of sites you liked thought you might also enjoy or find useful. I miss them, too.

yah, come to think of it in the curated space, this reminds me of that awesome X family of github pages. Looks like someone compiled a bunch of them here https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome#databases. I have found those to be highly valuable treasure troves pregnant with rich and relevant information.

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