Webring

webring.xxiivv.com

32 points·iamwil··10 comments

It has been a very long time since I interacted with a webring. But my memory is that the webring link on a page in the webring should take you automatically to another page, not to some main index page which is what seems to happen here. Is this the correct behavior and I am just misremembering?

you remember correctly. I clicked into a few links expecting to see the actual webring functionality but it doesn't seem to be there

At the beginning, that's how it worked. Each page would link to the next page in the ring, with the last one linking back to the first one. You can probably see how this might be inconvenient.

At the height of their popularity, the webring snippet would link to the previous page, the next page, a random page, and the index.

I'm all for people trying new [old] things, but I've been using the web since NCSA Mosaic and have never found webrings useful.

It would be cool if links I had visited were colored blue, just like in the old days. Its impossible to keep track of what I have seen in my head.

sweet

htmx has as webring, hacked a little bit w/an iframe:

https://htmx.org/webring

bring back the open web!

Reminds me of blogscroll.com which was posted here a few days ago. Personal websites are the original decentralized web.

> "If your website requires Javascript/CSS3 to display the majority of its content or to navigate, it will be rejected."

How much of the return to webrings and blogging is going to be held back by erroneous memories of when the web was "better" and "simpler".

It's more a sense to trying to get where we could've gone, rather than nostalgia to me.

A website can satisfy this qualifier while still being heavily encumbered with JavaScript.

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