I actually never started a ring. https://ourspace.neocities.org/ did, but he or she hasn't updated it since last month. :(
My 1st article included crude instructions for starting a WebRing without scripting: https://websitering.neocities.org/websitering.htm I didn't have a plan beyond that, but I figured I might as well keep updating now that I had webspace. I'd thought about doing a "Old-Site of the Day" feature for awhils, and a lot of folks on Neocities seemed interested in old websites, so that's what I did.
Love that kind of stuff