peter, 4 months ago

@sarajw It‘s a part if why I never warmed to Facebook and the likes: I don‘t want to decide who is in or out, this gives me headaches 😬

But you can do it, I send decision power! 💪

sarajw, 4 months ago

@peter haha thank you!

The other thing I do on this webring is have to police who is displaying the links - if they've been removed, the webring breaks and people can't traverse it any more.

That reminds me, I may have to remove someone for that reason, sadly...

mathieuhuot, 4 months ago

@sarajw @peter It's like you need a crawler that runs say every week sending you reports. Webrings are big business 😅.

sarajw, 4 months ago

@mathieuhuot @peter depending on how big it gets I may need such a thing...

sarajw, 4 months ago

It's this one: https://emojicons.glitch.me

They obviously like webrings. And it's clever. I don't see them in the current https://a11y-webring.club list either - presumably they've applied to you too, @eric?

I asked what CSS they take joy in, and they replied:
"I take joy in using the :lang() selector to create a multilingual page, oh and grid-auto-flow: column"

At least I got a reply! I'm just... unsure here.

sarajw, 4 months ago

Ummm. What to do when they've just put the links there anyway and are faking it? :(

sarajw, 4 months ago

Oh good, they've removed my ring links after asking directly for them to do so.

flamed, 4 months ago

@sarajw the site definitely doesn’t fit the vibe

sarajw, 4 months ago

@flamed it does not. And I didn't want to discriminate just based on vibes, but now I see whoever it is has sort of faked the workings of the webring with JS and a scraped list of sites... Yeah no.

eric, 4 months ago

@sarajw This is a weird one. We don't have this URL in our members list, so they've apparently… just added our webring code?

The webring is self-healing, so the only you can land on this site is via a non-webring link, and using our webring URLs means you'll never hit it. Bizarre.

sarajw, 4 months ago

@eric OK wtf I've just had a closer look, and the person has made a list of webring sites and faked it!

Usually if it's placed on the site before being added to the ring, I think all options take you to the first position on the ring.

&lt;a href="javascript:location.href=CSSjoy(Math.floor(Math.random() * 39 + 1))" title="Previous"&gt;⏮️&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="<https://cs.sjoy.lol/>"&gt;CSS JOY Webring&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="javascript:location.href=CSSjoy(Math.floor(Math.random() * 39 + 1))" title="Next"&gt;⏭️&lt;/a&gt;  

eric, 4 months ago

@sarajw That is some clownfuckery right there, yeesh.

sarajw, 4 months ago

@eric I guess whoever it is sees them as a badge of honour?