Round these parts I follow the advice of the Comics Uncles pretty closely. Well, reasonably closely. Well, I pick and choose.
Lately they’ve been espousing the idea of webrings: something we used to do in the days when search engines weren’t very good. The idea is that a group of websites of similar content would each have a link to the next site in a chain, which would eventually bring you back to the beginning, forming a loop, or ring—you get the idea.
It sort of fell out of fashion once search engines became a lot better at finding sites of one’s particular content. Unfortunately ads, and AI, and ads created by AI have meant that search engines aren’t very good again.
Great, I decided, I’ll join a webring! However Knifebeetle isn’t taking new applications, and WEB/COMIC/RING is only for comics on Neocities, and… that was all I could find, really.
I dithered for a couple of weeks. Then I accepted the idea that one should create what one cannot find in the world.
Of course, it’s still in the puppy phase, where it’s largely useless and it pees on the floor. But if you do a webcomic that falls within its fairly loose set of guidelines, I urge you to join up! Sharing traffic lifts all boats.
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