Faircamp Webring

Sometimes the old ways are the best!

This is a webring for independent music artists and labels who use Faircamp to showcase their original work.

The sites are run by the artists themselves - this webring is just one, of several, ways to discover them.

Warning: although the webring has rules against hate speech, these are independent artists expressing themselves in their own spaces. There may be adult content present, or references to trigger-subjects such as mental illness. So please be mindful when clicking through.

What's Faircamp?

Faircamp is a static site generator for audio producers, made by Simon Repp. It allows musicians to take control of their own music distribution.

What's a Webring and why would I want one?

Before Google, before Facebook, in the internet that time forgot, we needed a way to find websites. By joining a webring with similar-themed sites we can help each other out by cross-linking between them.

Each site has a next and previous link, allowing users to traverse the ring. Once someone has found one of the sites, they can quickly navigate to others in the ring.

My site isn't running Faircamp, can I still join the webring?

Maybe.

Technically there's no reason why not, the webring doesn't require Faircamp. But there is some consistency with Faircamp sites in that the webring next/prev links are always in a similar place, and easy to find for anyone navigating round the ring.

If you're an independent artist or label, producing original material within the rules listed below, and you can show that the webring links will be easy to find for vistors to your site (i.e. above "the fold", not buried in a footer) then your site might be accepted.

My site isn't in English, can I use my own language for "next" and "previous"?

Yes of course - it's your site!

It would be helpful to keep the same layout for the links, with the arrows, so people who don't speak your language can still find the way to the next site in the ring.

My site doesn't support HTTPS, only HTTP, can I still join?

Sadly the ring software assumes HTTPS at the moment when constructing links to your site, so this isn't going to work right now. If this turns out to be a frequent requirement, I'll have a think about how we could support this in the future.

So how does it work?

If you have a Faircamp site and want to join this ring, you need to do two simple things.

1. Get your site added to the ring

Currently the only way to do this is to reach out to @keefmarshall on Mastodon, with the URL of your Faircamp website.

You can just reply to this post, or send a direct message. All we need is:

your URL
confirmation that you have read, and agree to, the rules
a commitment to add the next/prev links as shown below so that the ring doesn't "break".

Please note: just adding the links by themselves won't work, you have to have your site added to the webring list as well, otherwise the links will just do nothing!

2. Add the prev and next links to your Faircamp catalog

To do this you need to add a tiny bit of code to the -- text block in your Faircamp catalog eno file. Most people put this at the bottom of the text block.

Below is a sample of how to add the links - you can just copy and paste this into the -- text section of your catalog, but you must change your-site-here to your own.

                    
[← prev](https://webring.key13.uk/prev/your-site-here) |
[faircamp webring](https://webring.key13.uk/) |
[next →](https://webring.key13.uk/next/your-site-here)

For example, if your site is at the top level, e.g. https://music.myband.com/, then your links should look like this (leave off the "https://" and any trailing slash):

                    
https://webring.key13.uk/prev/music.myband.com
https://webring.key13.uk/next/music.myband.com

If your faircamp site is on a subpath, e.g. https://myband.example.com/faircamp/ then your links should look like this :

                    
https://webring.key13.uk/prev/myband.example.com/faircamp
https://webring.key13.uk/next/myband.example.com/faircamp

Expand for a full catalog.eno example:

You can see this in action at music.key13.uk

The full catalog.eno file for this site (at time of writing!) is this:

                        
# catalog

base_url: https://music.key13.uk

-- text
Eclectic music made on virtual instruments.

Enjoy!

[web](https://key13.uk)

<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.online/@keefmarshall">social</a>

[← prev](https://webring.key13.uk/prev/music.key13.uk) |
[faircamp webring](https://webring.key13.uk/) |
[random](https://webring.key13.uk/rand) |
[next →](https://webring.key13.uk/next/music.key13.uk)
-- text

Rules

We follow the usual Fediverse rules on being nice to each other and will exclude or drop sites that don't follow them.

That means no hate speech, transphobia or racism of any kind is allowed on the ring.

The webring is intended for artists and labels who create original material, so sites that primarily post copyrighted material by other artists are unlikely to be approved (sorry!).