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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[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago (17 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.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

What about https://webri.ng ?

[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, man!! This looks so much like one of my old blogs!!! The layout, the colors! Brings back great memories.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It needs 3D borders.

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