Known active webrings

[wygolvillage]

I help run a small webring for fans of the Castlevania games called the Vampire Hunters Union. We don't have many members but it was mostly invented so I could link with some of my friends and stuff, and we haven't gotten any new members since then, but I suppose it counts as active!

[brisray]

@wygolvillage - so long as the ring is maintained and accepting new members I'd certainly count it as active.

[wygolvillage]

@wygolvillage - so long as the ring is maintained and accepting new members I'd certainly count it as active.

Yes, it is :)

[Yukari]

bumping to advertise some new and small-ish webrings.
Responsive Web Directory (for websites that work well on multiple screen sizes)
Pinoy Websites (for filipinos [and I think also non-filipinos who live in the Philippines])

[brisray]

The latest I found is Acing the Internet - a webring for asexual folks.

I think some people here have had a few problems with one of the feminist webring forums. Some of the active members of that are not at all LGBTQ+ friendly (terfs) and some of them are vile. The sites in the ring do not appear to express such views and that's why it is still listed in my webring list. If that changes then I'll think about removing it. Life's too short to be bothered with such narrow-minded people.

Talking of narrow-mindedness. My view of a webring goes back to the old Webring, RingSurf and other systems so I don't list fanlist sites. But, there are webrings of fanlistings, such as the Collectives and Fansites webrings, so those are included. For the same reason, I don't list link exchange sites.

[Bede]

It's once again time to drop my webring masterlist!! https://rentry.co/webring This page has every single currently active, Neocities-hosted webring that I have ever been able to find! Check it out!

[brisray]

Another great list @Bede

Some of the rings take a bit of looking for, so these lists are a great resource. I'm so glad they returned, they really do help some of the personal sites get discovered.

[andou]

i have a small webring dedicated to people who are part of my little stream community!   
of course you already know that, we spoke not too long ago! it's so nice to see you on this forum too, brisray!! 

[brisray]

I updated my list last night. Two have gone missing, but I found a couple more:

Beamring - BEAM virtual machine related sites including the Elixir, Erlang and Gleam languages

eSheep - I have no idea what it's about but I love the name.

Nora - For people named Nora, Eleonora, Leonora, Lenora, Lenore...

Toki Pona - An artifical language (like Esperanto)

[myleszey]

I'm a member of furryring, seemingly the largest furry webring.

Through browsing other sites on the ring I found out about the Weirdfur Webring (warning - site contains links to adult content; was not aware of this until I looked into it further today! yipes!) which I am not a part of but noticed was not included in the current list.

[brisray]

Thanks @myleszey I've now added it to my list. I'll have a look around and see if there's any others I've missed.

[brisray]

A little milestone reached, I added the 200th webring that I know of to the list. The latest is Metro Bieszczady

[ThunderPerfectWitchcraft]

Faircamp Webring - for users who release music using the faircamp-generator:
https://webring.key13.uk/

[brisray]

Some disappointing news about webrings this month. Two of the largest, Hotline and Self-Insert (not quite a webring, but still) have announced they are no longer taking new members.

A couple of weeks ago I tried emailing some other rings but haven't received anything back. Hopefully they are just very slow in replying or I am being ghosted rather than the rings have been abandoned.

A couple of new rings have appeared. Some on Neorings, whose site I find a bit confusing. Especially as some of them people who created them have nothing about them on their own sites.

One of the latest I've found is Liminal, which is dedicated to liminal spaces and backrooms. Some of its pages are not finished yet but it looks interesting. I've been exploring the Faircamp Webring mentioned in the last post. There's some talented people on those sites.

[TheFrugalGamer]

That is disappointing, but I can't say it's too surprising--all things must end eventually. The new ones look pretty cool, though. I'm glad to see Faircamp is getting some momentum! I'm a big user of Bandcamp, but I've also seen the writing on the wall as far as the acquisition goes, and I was worried the alternatives would die out before getting much interest. I will definitely be checking out the members in the webring!