Funny timing, I just blogged about webrings on my personal website a few days ago: https://merlinscholz.name/post/bring-back-the-old-web/

I have seen few people with webrings on HN as of recent. Hard to tell if it's gaining momentum or I am just lucky?

Example: I was reading https://www.jefftk.com/index yesterday which also included webring.

I don't know if they are, I think, a bit, the "old web" is actually huge, but getting into it takes some effort.. Sometimes, you find these hub-like sites, for example when browsing a webring (shameless plug geekring.net ), that leads deeper into some neocities commune or similar, it's great fun :)

My site is also using Drev DeVault’s openring, which is a relatively new tool.

Opening really is a godsend for starting a webring, especially in combination with some static site generator like Hugo.

Random question, since your site came up: what do your kids use to make their personal pages? Thinking of doing something similar with my 7-year-old and 4-year-old this fall.

They dictate and I type plain html + css. Sometimes they ask for complicated things (like when Lily first wanted polka dots) and I look it up.

Lily's Inxed page and RSS feed are from a script I wrote that does it manually: https://github.com/jeffkaufman/webscripts/blob/master/lilyrs...

I wrote about this some here: https://www.jefftk.com/p/helping-the-kids-post

I loved pony podcast lol.

Haha ... Lily's blog is great. Good job, Dad.

That looks so cool. Thanks for the blogpost, I've been a bit burned out lately for personal projects, but once I get some recovery time and reboot I also wanted to extend my personal blog and I will definetly adopt the idea!

It's important to share knowledge to next generations. This technology was invented around the time I was born

1) It's Drew DeVault, not Drev Devault (as listed multiple times throughout your site)

2) Would love if you made a link out of "Homelab" in your About Me sidebar, which linked to a post explaining what it is. I just read about a "homelab" on HN yesterday, and would like to know more!

Thank you. The lack of the capital V also turned me off as a potential user of the site. Not only was it wrong once, but multiple times. I think it's mistakes like these that need to be really examined as a site owner.

Shoutout to the webring my personal site[0] is on, GeekRing[1]

[0]: https://aarontag.dev/ [1]: https://geekring.net/

This reminds me that I created a web ring for self-published comic books as a kid called ComicSect. Must have been around 1994.

The problem with webrings was if they got too big, IIRC? Well, and if the chain was broken.

It would be nice to have branching webrings, so that a site in one webring that also "bridged" to a different ring, or a more specific topic (or less) could also link there.

As always there is the problem of curation.

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