Re: Release of Ringlink 3.0

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Jayant Kumar Gandhi wrote (to me privately):

any updates on categories or provision for custom fields?

No.

I have no plans to implement ring categories in the Ringlink program. IMO, categories would make sense if you had a really _large_ number of webrings on the same system, and considering the distributed small-scale approach that Ringlink represents, that will almost never be the case. Instead I'll keep encouraging ringmasters to submit their webrings to the Ringlink Webring Directory.

As regards custom fields, are you thinking of the idea with adding a site rating feature? I'm afraid that I don't give that very high priority, either. If you want to write such a feature, you will need to take the time to really understand how the program works, and then adding a couple of fields will be the easy part.

Btw, note that the stats feature is an indicator of the quality of the sites in a webring. After all, good sites get more traffic than bad ones, right? ;-)

/ Gunnar