>>51357You are an absolute gorilla nigger with 0 reading comprehension.
1. After lainchan has decided to LARP as 90's webmasters with banners and all, a standardization on banner naming convention and location should have been agreed upon from day one as a logical solution to problem of growth. I'm quite sure, there's a webmaster guide written sometime in 2001 that touches topic of banner retrieval and webring scripts.
2. Standardization permits automation of a process.
3. Your page does not rely on "external requests", but it relies on unreliable and useless repetitive manual labor of curating an up-to-date list of all webring peers that otherwise could be done by an simple program.
4. It does not have to run always-on automatic, you can launch it manually each time you update a site, but it's a labor-saving device.
5. Since there is a central curatory webpage containing links to all lainchan webring sites, each participant would fetch a list of peers from this central location, and from this list automatically fetch up-to-date participant banners.
6. It automates fetching banners from any arbitrary list of websites that have banners which adhere to this convention.
Examples of how it might look:
gaynigger.neocities.org/banner.png
www.mit.edu/~gaynigger/banner.png
gaynigger.me/banner.png
gayni9g3rzaytwlydykbg5nxkgyjxk3zsrctxuoxdmbx5jbh2ydyprid.onion/banner.png
