uog-webring is a community webring for university of guelph computer science and software engineering students and alumni. it gives people a lightweight way to discover each other's personal sites and portfolios through a shared directory and navigation widget. the repo currently has 7 stars, 14 forks, and 170+ deployments behind the live site.
the project acts as both a directory and a shared navigation system. each member can add the gryphon widget to their site, then visitors can move to the previous or next site in the network without breaking the browsing flow.
one of the more useful parts is the automated join flow. instead of forcing everyone to fork and edit json manually, the homepage form can create a pull request that appends a new member entry and auto-merges it when the checks pass.
i wanted a small piece of internet infrastructure for the guelph cs community. the result is a simple way for students and alumni to make their work easier to discover while keeping personal sites independent.