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