Having a home on gopher (zaibatsu), 04/09/2019
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For a while, SDF.org was my main home on gopher, but things
went awry. I turned to grex.org (cross was nice enough to
setup gopher for the users, even though he's not a huge fan
of the protocol,) and it became my home on gopher for a
season. Then, smaller gopher servers started popping up, and
I wanted to support them, so I made homes in several other
places (including here on circumlunar.space.)
With my content scattered about, I was still trying to keep
grex as my "main" gopher hole, because it has (I think) most
of what I've created. Unfortunately, grex has been going
through occasional bouts of connectivity issues. The last
time it happened, it was a telco hardware issue. I'm not
sure what is going on with the more recent occurrence.
Perhaps it doesn't matter. Maybe grex will fix the issues
and continue to provide services forever. Perhaps they'll
take the server down without warning at the end of the week.
I have no idea, and that's what bugs me. Communication is
lacking in a big way.
Not that I can demand communication. They're providing a
free service. They might choose not to provide that service
tomorrow, and I can't really complain.
Still, the downtime (and honestly, the poorly configured
gopher server, which causes some serious timeout issues) is
not something that I want for my main gopher home. Maybe
it's time to move again. Links could break (that irks some
gopher users,) or I could leave the grex content up and
simply direct any potential readers to the new home.
It's interesting how something so simple is made more
complex by the realities of the systems. It's life, ever
changing.
