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.
So I did.
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.