Canal Web Ring

[Sue]

I do not see the development of the ring as relevant to the future development of the Canal World Discussion Forums

 

Why?

[Sam]

Why?

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Most likely because there is a section for websites AND a webring is fairly hard to maintain and keep up with approving the sites etc..

[Richard Bustens]

Well i never made head nor tail of it, there was something about a site that you could only go in if you had the same surname as the bloke it belonged to ,

[Jon]

The CW WebRing was sent up as a ring of interconnected websites back in 2001. Since then, various people have joined. Over the last year or so, I decided not to promote it any more as it was in direct competition with another waterways webring (with CW included, there were over 4 major rings running), and I wanted to put my effort into maintaining the forums and upgrading them.

 

It has since been brought to my attention that a number of sites now no longer contain the navigation code essential for the ring, so in essence, it is broken. Also a number of sites contain very old versions of the banner, which has led to broken images etc.

 

As you are probably aware, in October 2004, I decided to run the site purely as a community, and do away with any of the orignal (poor) content, which wasn't being viewed anyway. Since then I have received a number of complaints about the ring, (there are previous threads), I have now decided that the amount of effort to restore the ring to a decent standard will outweigh the benifits.

 

Sites in the Ring will be added to the Links Directory as and when I get a chance to do so.

 

Hope this gives a greater insight into my decision.

 

Cheers

 

Jon

[Sue]

Seems a shame really.... I only had Canal World Ring on my site, deciding that I would just support that one as I was a forum member. (Although I took it off the other day as soon as I saw the thread here about it finishing)

 

I was one that wrote a while ago about the broken links...

 

Would there be no way that you could email those who have registered to say that you are re-setting and updating the ring, perhaps asking for a reply within 7 days to be included in the update, then to check each email reply to see that the correct code was in place?

 

If you needed a general dogs body to forward those emails to for checking I would be willing to lend a hand..

 

[Oliver]

I've always found the Canal World Ring to be much easier to use than the other two 'Canal' rings.

 

Shame to see it disappear - I'd be happy to help out same as Sue to keep it going.

[Jon]

If someone is will to take it on, I'd be happy for that to happen, but as it stands that moment, I would rather concentrate on developing the forums and gallery.

 

Jon

[Sam]

If someone is will to take it on, I'd be happy for that to happen, but as it stands that moment, I would rather concentrate on developing the forums and gallery.

 

Jon

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I will Jon if you want!! or if no one else desperately wants to!!

[Sam]

If you would like me to help PM me!!!

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I will Jon if you want!! or if no one else desperately wants to!!

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Yes, it would be a shame to let the webring go after Jon's spent such a long time keeping it going.

 

I can't see any harm in letting Sam run it for you Jon!

[Oliver]

Jon

 

What did you decide in the end? I think you had several offers to take it over

[Jon]

I had a few offers, and am looking into ways to transfer control to potential new managers without loosing a couple of other (non CW related) things I use Bravenet for. Watch this space!

 

Cheers

 

Jon

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