Indie-Web

Webring Widget Status: v0.1.0 The Idea Webrings were one of the early web’s best ideas – small communities of independent sites linking to each other, helping visitors discover new corners of the internet outside of search engines and social algorithms. We built a modern version. What It Does The Webring Widget is an embeddable web component (<webring-widget>) that fetches content from multiple JSON Feed sources and displays them as a unified, themeable card grid. Any site can embed it with a single HTML tag. ...

What Is a Webring? Webrings were one of the earliest forms of community building on the internet. In the 1990s, before search engines dominated discovery, webrings linked together sites with shared interests. You’d visit a site, click “next” or “previous,” and travel through a curated ring of related pages. The original webrings died off as Google became the default way to find things online. But something was lost in the process: the serendipity of stumbling on a small, personal site that someone poured their energy into. The web became centralized, discoverable only through algorithms that favor engagement over substance. ...