The webring was, is and will always be a mistake. All it does is promote strife, division and stagnation without providing any real benefit. "Le decentralization" meme can still be achieved by a single centralized entity or group acting as admins and using multiple layers of redundancy and multiple contingency plans. Having 8 random boards, 15 video games boards etc. just fractures the userbase and makes them all dead, discourages activity and encourages people to leave "b-b-but I like it slow like this" nobody cares about your stupid nigger opinion, 99% of the 8chan userbase, which already fucked off, clearly didn't and these sites shouldn't specifically be catered to the needs of a tiny retarded niche. Low user counts and activity also empower the loudest minority insane schizos who spend all day posting, samefagging and backseat modding, shitting up entire sites top to bottom, ruining any kind of discussion, sense of community and whatever and replacing it with their manufactured delusions of what imageboards "should be", further driving posters away.
You know I am right, I urge admins with IQ equal or above room temperature to talk to each other and merge sites. It's been 5 years since 8chan died and the userbase thousands strong didn't ever trickle back in or did it ever stabilize at healthy numbers, in fact it was the exact opposite, it started low and it progressively got lowerest. Fix it. Fix it now.