Re: New Schema Suggestion: Webringie JSON

I love the idea. I'm in 15 webrings and a bunch of directories myself, 
and I think we need a way to declare that a website is part of a 
community of websites.

I think that this is better done with an RDFa schema that can be used 
with microdata, RDFa, or JSON-LD. Many webring participants have 
hand-coded and/or statically-generated sites, so markup-based approaches 
might be easier for them.

You might want to reach out to the owners of other webrings to gauge 
interest in a common schema. There's a bit of a "webring renaissance" 
happening right now, with many small rings cropping up. I helped Sadness 
put this list of active webrings together: 
https://sadgrl.online/cyberspace/webrings.html

If/when you do: I think it's worth emphasizing that big search engines 
aren't the only beneficiaries. Many webring participants are a bit 
SEO-averse and prefer discovering their sites through more "manual" or 
"organic" means. I can think of tons of other use-cases; these are a few 
off the top of my head:

- data visualizations that map out web communities
- combining with "traditional" webrings to help ensure all participants
	include the required links on their sites (no "broken rings")
- auto-generating web directories
- curated search engines for small communities (see
	https://lieu.cblgh.org/) for an example

Just as politicians like to say that "small businesses are the backbone 
of our economy", I like to say that "independent creators are the 
backbone of our culture". Discovering independent/personal sites is 
hard, and the current webring renaissance is a welcome sight for sore 
eyes. I hope that some sort of structured data could gently modernize 
them while still preserving the simplicity that made them special.

-- 
Seirdy (https://seirdy.one)