{"id":69,"date":"2026-03-12T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webcomic.quest\/?p=69"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:00:30","slug":"full-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webcomic.quest\/index.php\/2026\/03\/12\/full-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Round these parts I follow the advice of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/comiclab.simplecast.com\/\">Comics Uncles<\/a>&nbsp;pretty closely. Well, reasonably closely. Well, I pick and choose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lately they\u2019ve been espousing the idea of webrings: something we used to do in the days when search engines weren\u2019t 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\u2014you get the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It sort of fell out of fashion once search engines became a lot better at finding sites of one\u2019s particular content. Unfortunately ads, and AI, and ads created by AI have meant that search engines aren\u2019t very good again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Great, I decided, I\u2019ll join a webring! However&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/knifebeetle.neocities.org\/\">Knifebeetle<\/a>&nbsp;isn\u2019t taking new applications, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/webcomicring.org\/\">WEB\/COMIC\/RING<\/a>&nbsp;is only for comics on Neocities, and\u2026 that was all I could find, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I dithered for a couple of weeks. Then I accepted the idea that one should create what one cannot find in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, it\u2019s still in the puppy phase, where it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Round these parts I follow the advice of the&nbsp;Comics Uncles&nbsp;pretty closely. Well, reasonably closely. Well, I pick and choose. Lately they\u2019ve been espousing the idea of webrings: something we used to do in the days when search engines weren\u2019t very good. The idea is that a group of websites of similar content would each have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcomic.quest\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcomic.quest\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcomic.quest\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcomic.quest\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcomic.quest\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webcomic.quest\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/webcomic.quest\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcomic.quest\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcomic.quest\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcomic.quest\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}