Particularly the webrings were so overgrown that there weren't enough sites to fill all the rings. What happened? Sites were joining ten and twenty webrings, creating pages and pages of them for just one site. In the months that have passed since that time, webrings are dead. The ringmasters who started them haven't taken out the broken links, nor are the webring members updating their listings. In order to find new sites (and there always are) I've used "the largest Titanic webring" only to find a series of error messages and unreachable sites.

We need to take Titanic webrings back to a time when they were useful, when people who otherwise wouldn't see your site do, just because you're in a respected webring. If you joined a webring, but your site isn't there anymore, tie up the loose ends: delete yourself from search engines, webrings, and anywhere else that you know linked to you. The latter also pertains to those ringmasters who don't check the links. Titanic sites will be better if there is a standard held for the things that link us together.