Remember when webrings were THE way to discover new sites? I still maintain a couple for my niche interests but traffic from them has dropped off a cliff since search engines got good.

Anyone still actively participating in webrings? Or has Google made them obsolete?

I still find niche hobby sites through webrings that I'd never find on Google. They're not dead, just less mainstream.

The webring model was great when search engines sucked. Google killed them for general discovery but they still work for tight communities.