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New note: webrings are back

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Rohan Kumar 2023-11-14 17:05:00 -08:00
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title: "Webrings are already back"
date: 2023-11-14T17:05:03-08:00
replyURI: "https://arne.me/articles/we-need-to-bring-back-webrings"
replyTitle: "We Need to Bring Back Webrings"
replyType: "BlogPosting"
replyAuthor: "Arne Bahlo"
replyAuthorURI: "https://arne.me/"
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Webrings are alive and well; they don't need to be "brought back" because they're already here.
[I'm in 14 webrings](https://seirdy.one/#webrings). If you think that's a lot, [foreverkeith.is has a growing list of 100 or so](https://foreverliketh.is/).
Some have gotten quite large. The Hotline Webring is close to 700 members. [The Yesterweb Webring recently shut down](https://yesterweb.org/webring/) because it got *too* large, past 800 members! Some of the people behind the larger Yesterweb community felt that the webring had gone too mainstream and become a venue for SEO and traffic-boosting rather than a chill network of friendly like-minded people.
At this point, webrings aren't some dated concept that's become tiny and niche. They're quite mainstream outside of the commercial web.