Ringsurf have recently made some major alterations to the way that net rings work from their management system. Originally you would sign up, place a code designed by the ring owner and then be able to "surf" the ring from your own home page using the links in the code. That no longer happens. The code system has been changed and the links will now take you to a listing page. Once you click on a site from the listing you then surf the ring using a banner that is at the top of the screen. Your homepage is, effectively, surfed to and from within a frame.
I'm not happy with this. I have received no advance warnings that Ringsurf.com were about to make such major changes to the system. The change is significant enough to make ring management almost unnecessary and gives the ring owner little or no say in how they would like their rings to be audited. This might be better for Ringsurf.com but is not, in my opinion, good for the owners or participants in the rings themselves.
Blogging Brits no longer exists in the way that it did when it was set up on March 15th 2002. For that reason I'm closing the ring as of today, April 19th 2008. I've kept it going through all kinds of hassle brought about by changes implemented with no warning from Ringsurf.com. This, unfortunately, is just one change too many.
Thanks for participating in what has been a wonderful project of bringing blogs and bloggers of the UK together. I wish you well in your blogging endeavours.
Lynn xx
