No.14
Perhaps to help the community grow, we should make our own projects, and I propose a webring, not unlike the Lainchan people have one. I don't know how many people are lurking here, but if there is at least 10, and all of them have a personal website, it might be worth considering making a webring. As said, it helps the community to do things together, it helps the website authors to grow their readership, and the Lainchan webring is too big for it's own good, so making a new one helps decentralizing it.
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No.15
I appreciate the thread as well as proposing an idea to help the site/community here.
i removed your link and banner because it comes off like advertising now that ive written this post
>re: Lainchan webring
The Lainchan webring being too big for its own good is _because_ it's "decentralized."
They don't even have a version of their own webring on lainchan.org besides in user-posted threads (from what I can tell, at least).
I think that causes:
- Low quality links
- Dead/unmaintained links
- Webring gets too big
- The site list suffers from "net-splits"
>re: arisuchan.xyz webring
I'm open to having an official centralized arisuchan.xyz webring with its own page and nav bar link on the site.
But beyond maintaining a "healthy" webring, I want to ensure its quality and that it only contains links to actual community members' sites.
While I could understand that lurkers or new users may want to help the site grow, and maybe there are even people looking to make this place their new "home" - it's not unusual for new users to come hang out for a week then disappear, or try to socialize but don't end up succeeding and ultimately vanish.
I have no problem with that and I actually love getting the chance to meet cool people online, even if they fall flat on their face when trying to socialize or just disappear - this is not out of the ordinary.
But it's important to me that active community members that I know and interact with get webring links on the site if they want them, and that users who are "just passing through" don't.
Active community member meaning:
- Member of our IRC
- Me and other long-time members know you
- You interact with us regularly
And have a site that:
- Appears maintained
- Inspires interest
- Inspires confidence in future maintenance and content updates (maybe that means it's been around for more than a couple months, or maybe it means the site has an apparent high level of effort that's been put into it, etc)
To ensure this place doesn't become a dumping ground of dead links, I need to maintain some official rules/criteria in this regard.
The things I laid out above might be a bit "fuzzy" but, since I'm the only person who runs this website, it's ultimately up to me what sites it endorses (it reflects on me directly).
If you become an active member like I've described, I'd love to include your site in our I-guess-soon-to-be-webring.
Thanks again for posting and please feel free to come hang out in IRC :-)
