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iResponse to solderpunk re: Pocket Gopher |
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iJanuary 04th, 2018 |
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isolderpunk phlogged [0] about the Android gopher client, Pocket |
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iGopher, available on F-Droid. I downloaded it when I heard about |
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iit on Mastodon a few months back and my experiences are similar to |
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ithose he brings up. Many complaints I have apply to all gopher |
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iclients and proxies I've used. |
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iComplains about gopher on a phone: |
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i - Colors are often black text on white bg. That sucks. (not |
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i a problem in Pocket Gopher) |
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i - Fonts are often bad, not changable. (Pocket Gopher is pretty, |
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i but not customizable) |
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i - Text width is a challenge in portrait. Most clients give no |
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i option to toggle between auto-wrapping and preformatted, let |
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i alone do an interpretive reflow like solderpunk suggests. |
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i - Lack of bookmarking / start-page configuration (nicely solved |
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i in Pocket Gopher) |
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iPocket Gopher specific complaints: |
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i - If I tap the screen and miss a link the font size changes and |
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i shrinks slightly. I can repeat this a few times before it |
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i settles. Sometimes the screen jumps as a result and I end up |
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i tapping the wrong link. |
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iIt's nice having options in clients but nothing in the Android |
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imarket has wow'd me yet. There's some active development on the |
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iiOS side, so maybe we'll see some of those new clients port over. |
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