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Oh hells yeah bring back webrings.

I'm gonna make a personal website just to hop on the bandwagon.

Make the internet 1999 again.

I love this and support it wholeheartedly.
I've been working on a silly personal website for a while for this exact reason: starting a webring. Specifically, I've decided to just reject replacing the social media platforms I've left. It's lovely to see others bringing back webrings.
Seems a little fragile. I don't see how to get past https://flbn.sh/
This is the „beauty“ of web rings. Low tech, but brittle if not everyone plays to the rules xD
Wonder if we could get a multipath routing/BGP-style ring going.
Sure, we could.

IIRC they were less "broken" with frames (modulo aesthetic taste) but honestly I don't see the problem with the ring "breaking". Browsers have back buttons; brains do tree search.

If I'm to be an internet reactionary I'd commit to the bit -- underlined blue text to indicate a link, URLs that don't break, active use of the back button and history, etc. =)