On 2023-07-28, Mark Cornick <
mcornick@tilde.club> wrote:
Unpopular opinion: gopher is not "meaningful", at least not outside of
the circles of people that tend to populate the pubnixes. The vast, vast majority of the internet moved on decades ago. So the supposition that
"if you're looking at gopher, you already know what the server is about"
is almost certainly correct.
That's not so much an ``unpopular opinion'', as it is a fact. One
which I happened to agree with. I just said I wish we would
*PRETEND* it wasn't true. That's kind of the whole idea of pubnixes,
we're pretending that we need to log onto a shared computer do do
interesting things. We're pretending that NNTP is still relevant,
and that what we say in this newsgroup matters. =)
I can't speak for the admins here, but if I were in charge, I'd welcome
an effort by user(s) that are more passionate about gopher to convert
some of the web content. You could start it off in your own
public_gopher directory, then offer it up to be "promoted" when you're
happy with it.
Yeah, I've actually recently considered reaching out with a diff
of the gophermap, but I'm busy with some other things in life right
now, and barely even have time to waste on arguing in newsgroups.
But if someone else doesn't beat me to it, I will certainly look
into writing some junk out.
~rdh
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