I recently completed work on a small hobby project to support the small-web revival. It's a webring hosting platform. Unfortunately I haven't really had the time available to promote it. I don't expect it to really gather too much traction, however there's definitely been a bit of a revival of webrings!
It certainly contributed to it. IMO, the major killer was social media reducing the need for personal websites and blogs for most folks, and now silos like Discord, which don't allow information to be indexed on search engines, unlike traditional forums.
FWIW, I still run a personal site/blog, used to be very active on social media too, but am quite disenchanted with the idea of paying to reach your own audience.
Can you add two more rings and some example sites? It's difficult to evaluate if there is no content to use.
Have you considered introducing social features? Webrings are a form of a community. It would be helpful if there were the option to link to a community chat channel and wiki.
What I would love to see in a webring service would be comments and voting on each ring element, preferably with ActivityPub technology.
The cherry on top would be an rss feed for sites that are newly added to the ring.
Anyway, good luck for your site. The clean design is nice.
> Can you add two more rings and some example sites? It's difficult to evaluate if there is no content to use.
I really should have done this. To be honest I didn't really intend to 'launch' it today. I just saw a thread loosely related to the 'small-web', and thought I'd mention what I'd been working on. I'll put something together to demo the platform.
> Have you considered introducing social features?
I wanted to avoid social features, and instead focus on facilitating other people hosting their own webrings without needing to provide the infrastructure themselves. I figure people can easily provide these features themselves if they need it, and if I can avoid the added complexity of maintaining them, all the better. Plus, the added burden of moderating content is certainly best avoided.
https://webri.ng/
Once I'd purchased that domain, I simply had to do something with it!