Monday, January 29th, 2018
On current Bongusta! status
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Bongusta! is now aggregating 28 phlogs and if I didn't have to remove
two non-functional (C.M.Hobbs and Simple Machines, I'll miss both of
them), there would be thirty of them. That's a huge number compared to
what I was used to few years ago, I hope it will stay so, or even
improve.
I'd like to say hello to newcomers - Alex Schroeder[1] with his huuuge
gophermap and kvothe[2] with fresh new phlog. I hope both will stay
active for long time and bring another perspective to our text-based
universe.
The other thing I'd like to announce is that Bongusta! will go through
some code changes. As there is no standard way how to tell whether
phlog has changed or not (and I would vote against bringing Atom or
any other XML-based bloat from www to gopher), I do simple gophermap
checksums. Unfortunately that means false positive every time SDF goes
through Gophernicus or NetBSD upgrade. These need to be eliminated.
But every change to working mechanism can bring errors, so If you see
anything weird on Bongusta! in following days/weeks, drop me a line,
I will investigate.
[1]
gopher://alexschroeder.ch
[2]
gopher://sdf.org/1/users/kvothe/