From 72cb198b4ecfbcfa506dd4940fc34cae63cb82c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rohan Kumar Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:05:00 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] New note: webrings are back --- content/notes/webrings-are-already-back.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/notes/webrings-are-already-back.md diff --git a/content/notes/webrings-are-already-back.md b/content/notes/webrings-are-already-back.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf5f0f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/notes/webrings-are-already-back.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +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/" +--- + +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.