A collaborator and I have started a webring for Indie Presses (small publishing houses!) Fittingly, it’s called the Indie Press Webring.
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Thank you for this! Browsing through indie press websites and finding new publications is one of my favorite pastimes, and I’ve gotten a lot of cool books (physical and electronic) from all over the place. The ones who’ve already joined look great, and I hope it continues to flourish!
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I run the Veggie Ring, a webring for vegan webmasters! Thanks for this list! 
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I run the ØɄ₮₴łĐɆ webring.
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i made a pink webring!
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The maintenance is a big part of the job of running one of these things and I understand why some ringmasters start falling behind. I’ve got a little shell script that checks for 404s, which I run daily. Then there’s the linkless sites on the ring, which are marked as such - those I manually check daily when the sites have recently joined, not so often when they joined longer ago and still haven’t added links. I also re-check dead sites occasionally as they’ve been known to suddenly spring back into life. And all of that is good and well but at the end of the day, I also actually click through the ring once a month. If a site’s down and it just has a goodbye message without a 404, or links have been removed… scripts don’t detect that sort of thing, so it has to be checked by hand.
I sometimes think of the possibilities of more automation but then, the messiness is part of the joy of this stuff - for me at least.
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Oh my God, I’m so sorry I forgot to put this onto the links because I didn’t see this comment. I just found out months later and it’s there now. Again, really sorry if you felt left out. It wasn’t anything personal.
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It’s no big. I kinda figured it was an oversight.
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