The design of the rings is also good in that it allows you to navigate the entire ring without having to constantly return to the index page. On the down side, the subject hierarchy isn't very useful for browsing. Because there are so many rings and just a few broad subjects they're listed under, you may end up having to look through lists of hundreds of rings to find what you're looking for. Of course, the imprecise, self- defining nature of the rings probably makes it difficult to impose a more fine subject hierarchy on the directory, and the one that's there is the best that could reasonably be created. There is a problem that WebRing shares with HitBOX .
Sites are only appear in the directory if their maintainers actively seek to be listed.
This means that large commercial, education, and government sites won't be listed because they have no need to increase their traffic by linking with potential competitors. Send comments to Aaron Taylor .