(fallen london stamps by built-in webrings for cohost is a suggestion on the forums (that is currently planned?!) but I've also just discovered https://webri.ng
This platform gives creators the ability to create, and manage their own webrings, without needing to worry about the difficulties of developing the platform, or the complexities of hosting their own infrastructure.
We provide a simple control panel that webring administrators can use to add sites to their webring, and provide useful, short links that they can give to users to navigate their webring.
We support the small-web, and hope to provide creators a fantastic platform for promoting their creations, and the creativity of others. We provide a fully managed, and forever totally free service.
some notes from poking around:
(I should first mention that you can make a webring by just making a list of members somewhere and and having people manually link to each other + said list. you don't need a service for this if that's all you're after. edit: also as @ireneista pointed out, using an external tool for webrings or any other simple function instead of just linking to each other puts you at risk of said external tool dying or getting enshittified... which is exactly what happened to a bunch of webrings in the past! so. food for thought.)
(edit 2: see this rebug for even more webring options!)
it seems straightforward enough based on my cursory skim. there's a page where you can list basic info about your webring and list its members, and it has support for /random, /next, and /previous (though you do have to input your site index, which means that every time you remove a site everyone's links will break? will have to test that.) the interface is very barebones but it seems like most of them just use the webring profile to link their own info page, like this webring did
there's also the option to set webrings to private, which means that they won't show up on the front page or be visible to "unauthorized users", which I'm taking to mean that you can't see the webring's profile if you're logged out. that being said, I can't see a way to browse all public webrings anyway... unless the "recently updated" bit is supposed to be all public webrings in order of update? need to trawl the source code for that one
it does allow webrings with adult content, though they're required to be set to private on the site itself, along with webrings dedicated to "political issues." which like. that could mean anything from "webring for a specific political candidate" to "trans rights" depending on who you ask. their content policies are pretty unspecific overall? (intentionally so)
it's open-source. code is here, still looking through the code but I'm kind of puzzled that everything is only soft-deleted (i.e. the actual info sticks around in the database, just with a tag). trying to see if there's a worker anywhere that periodically mass-deletes soft-deleted entries.
service has no "premium" mode and has no ads that I can see. I'm guessing this is a personal project paid for out of pocket by the owner.
if you make a webring with this site, I'd definitely be interested in your thoughts
