Admin wrote: Sunclad wrote:<br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">I sent members of my 2 rings, totalling about 150 sites, that we were moving out and setting up shop here. </span><br><br>You might want to tell 'em if they can just hold off for a couple more days then they probably won't have to do any code changes on their end. <br>
Genie is out of the bottle unfortunately.
Also it seems that Webring shut down their manager's forum a couple of days ago.
They were taking a lot of heat and they were apparently killing off a lot of posts from disgruntled managers.
Webring is starting to force members to verify their emails in their accounts. yet their verification mails take forever to arrive. My accounts shared the same email and probably it means no sharing of email among accounts!
The only way is to send a mail to all members of the ring. It will depend if the member is willing to join up the new shop here.
Like I referred to in my other post, this should be done directly and not through WRmail, or your ring will be immediately confiscated. Sunclad, due to your experience with Webring and their innapropriate advertisements in the past, I would hate to see what would happen if the system was given control of your ring and allowed any sort of site into it!
Anyone read the new announcement from webring yet? Are they letting people keeping more rings than what they claimed earlier?
Seems to be, and our current rings seem to be grandfathered in, although the wording is a bit confusing and we don't have an item-by-item comparison list yet on which features are available to free or paid members.
I think it's a far improvement though.
It looks like the system is still going to be purged of many of the junk rings though, so that's definately a good thing. I'm not sorry for most of the rings that I gave up in the process of whittling it down to 2 each per WR ID, so what I'll probably do is consolidate everything under one ID (I think I still have about 8 rings total), just keep managing those rings as always and my rings here.
Junk rings? Do you mean rings that are being under adoption? Because rings being held by members should not be considered as junks!
I'm actually referring to the ones that have been under adoption without a manager for years, so virtually any site has been permitted to join them (Webring claims that they actually do manually approve each site into an adoptable ring, but they certainly don't monitor the quality of them), or rings that have been deleted and then ressurected. SUPPOSEDLY, these are going to be weeded through. And if they end up permenantly deleting rings that were deleted by the managers, that's a good thing, IMO.
But you're right -- unfortunately a lot of potentially good rings are going to get caught in the mess, i.e. ones that were only recently given up for adoption (such as ones in the past two months or so).
Rings up for adoption, I tried to adopt one but it seems no one approves it. Anyway I am leaving my ring in a mess until next year to see if webring will remain as free as before.
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