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

  • @rockSlayer
    35•7 months ago

    I love this idea, the back button on browsers feels like it exists because of webrings

    • @[email protected]
      14•7 months ago

      It exists because web browsers used to not have tabs. Nowadays it’s useless cause with modern scripted web pages you never properly get back to the site you left

        • @[email protected]
          19•7 months ago

          Then the entire browser becomes useless. I couldn’t even post this comment without JavaScript.

          Edit: I wish a search engine that only showed websites without JavaScript existed.

          • @WombleEnglish
            5•7 months ago

            Umatrix is great, you can configure it to automatically allow first party javascript, and if sites still dont work eneable bits until they do them lock those settings so the same bits will be enabled next time you’re on that site.

            • @naught101
              3•7 months ago

              You can do that with NoScript too. Is the Umatrix UI any better, or are there other benefits?

          • @Jarix
            3•7 months ago

            I wish also that THAT search engine also made it so turning on results that have paywalls is a thing you can only have turned on if YOU turn it on