Notice 27/05/2026: Closure of the PersonaRing

hi everyone. it is today i announce the offical closure of the personaring. I'm sure a few of you expected this, given how absent i've been lately on neocities. The truth is, when i closed the personaring for hiatus, i originally planned to wipe it then and there. But i wanted to try and give myself a break. However, the emails kept coming, and i soon came to realise i simply don't have the time anymore to be maintaining something like this, especially at it's scale now and with my limited webdev tools.

When i first made the personaring, i thought it would be a fun little experiment - something to do in my free time. Given how little interaction i recieve on neocities, i didn't expect it to gain a lot of members.
Back then, i didn't have a job, and i was still in juniour schooling, so my academic schoolwork was much less rigourous, and i thought i would always have plenty of time to update this webring, but i can't keep sidestepping the truth anymore and i know i can't maintain it any longer. Even so, i'm grateful for every single person who joined, and apoligise to those i will never get to add.

On those who emailed:

if you emailed me during the personaring's hiatus, or nearing the months where i started to become absent , i want to apologise. I wanted to tell you that there was no point in changing your details as it was all going to be deleted anyway, but as more emails came in i became scared that people would get mad, so i ghosted everybody. I know this was wrong, and i still feel incredibly guilty about it. I'm sorry for leaving you all hanging, with broken links and mucked up members lists and never-answered emails and so many other issues i never adressed. I still think about ignoring it all, but i know that's wrong - the least i can do is write this paragraph even if half the people who will read it most likely won't care.If you emailed asking about the personaring, please know i read your emails and i'm sorry. Please don't hate me.

You might ask 'but why do all of this if you're deleting the webring anyway? why not just delete the whole page now, and get it over and done with?' and you have a fair point. But after how far this has come, even if it unravelled at the end, i think it would be mean to just bin it all, although i know that's quite selfish of me. So the personaring page will still stay up (for now, to hold this message). However, please do not email me any longer. The personaring is disbanded, so please remove the webring off of your pages. Please do not ask to be added, or for your information to be removed or any of the sort.

That's all i have to say. I'm sorry for leading everyone on for so long. The last thing i shall write here is that if anyone for any reason (although i don't know why) would like to re-form the webring, i will provide you with the code, so long as you're a better coder than i am.
thank you and goodbye
- Bean