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Let's bring back the webring. (gusbus.space)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Back in the day the best way to find cool sites when you were on a cool site was to click next in the webring. In this age of ailing search engines and confidently incorrect AI, it is time for the webring to make a comeback.

This person has given his the code to get started: Webring

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The idea comes up again and again on the fediverse. It feels ripe for some app/platform to kinda nail it.

I’m not sure this is it or even something that does exactly the old web ring thing. I think a simple enough system for the human curation of web pages in a standardised way that can easily be consumed and aggregated would go a long way though. The fediverse feels like its close to something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

There is also Gemini protocol!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What about https://webri.ng ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That seems interesting!

In the end, I'm wondering if all the pieces are here on something like the fediverse but just need to be connected. I haven't thought about this at all until now (so I'm just riffing here) ... but the essence of such a system seems to me:

Recommendations are human curated
Recommendations come from a single human (or well defined collective)
Reccommendations are organised in a navigable structure

Point 3 seems to be the unclear part. A "ring" is obviously a bunch of connections (not unlike a linked list). But other structures probably have a lot to provide here, especially if they're amenable to some basic search facility.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Aside from 3 you are essentially creating Stumble Upon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

You might be overthinking it, or I might be underthinking it.

When I hear "webring" I think of a simple list of sites, curated by the ring creator. And all members have a badge on their site, complete with a few nav buttons.

It was never broke, why fix it?