Heyo, and welcome to Safonts 2.0!

I am the webring’s new owner, Melvian, a silly ice dragon who sometimes makes fonts in his free time! Back in July, xandra asked me to take over the Safonts webring that she started back in 2022, so that she could spend more time on other, more important projects. I said yes, and immediately went to work giving the webring the attention it’s needed.

In addition to a complete aesthetic refresh of the website, the JavaScript-based widget has had some aesthetic alterations but also some adjustments from a functional standpoint (no more “site” attribute!) and even a new JavaScript-free way to be part of the webring! You can learn more about that in the Widgets page.

The most important update is that I’ve gone through all the sites and categorized them into websites that have the new widget, websites awaiting migration, websites with no links whatsoever and ones that are down. This system has been carefully designed so that only those with the new widget are part of the ring itself, yet reinserting sites after they’ve migrated is extremely easy to do.

When I went through all the sites I found that not only was the ring broken, half of the sites were dead or had no links (this was even before the migration). Now, with this new system, the ring is finally complete, and will continue to be complete a lot more often, even as people still migrate!

There are still plenty of things left to do, and a few changes I plan on making to the webring. For now, I’m leaving it as-is as a lot of people are still migrating and this is already enough of a massive overhaul.

For those of you in the webring and those who want to be part of it, please follow the RSS feed to stay updated. Announcements will be very infrequent, but I’ll be announcing when submissions open, as well as any potential feature- and rule-related changes that may affect existing members.

Until next time!