"Ring" means you are navigating linearly and circularly. Isn't it better to provide a list of links so users can choose where they want to go "next"?
That depends! If your goal is some optimal way of navigating, sure. But the shape of a webring means your site has two "neighbours", which is fun and uses spatial notions we don't see often anymore. It also means someone can remember Site Y as "the one next from Site X", which is also fun and creates more ways sites relate to each other. This relating to one another is usually the point of a webring.
THere is something to it I assume. Less is someties more/ COnstraints make it interesting, and challenging.
There is a modern-day similar thing. In MSN news-site the main news-article automatically steps though a loop. You can manually interfere, but the constraint is that you basically can see the news article only for a short time before it is replaced by another. I guess you could call it gamification as well. Thinks about Dunegeons and Dragons where you find news-articles in the dungeon and dragons are trying to burn them with their fiery blaze.
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That depends! If your goal is some optimal way of navigating, sure. But the shape of a webring means your site has two "neighbours", which is fun and uses spatial notions we don't see often anymore. It also means someone can remember Site Y as "the one next from Site X", which is also fun and creates more ways sites relate to each other. This relating to one another is usually the point of a webring.
THere is something to it I assume. Less is someties more/ COnstraints make it interesting, and challenging.
There is a modern-day similar thing. In MSN news-site the main news-article automatically steps though a loop. You can manually interfere, but the constraint is that you basically can see the news article only for a short time before it is replaced by another. I guess you could call it gamification as well. Thinks about Dunegeons and Dragons where you find news-articles in the dungeon and dragons are trying to burn them with their fiery blaze.