More user are voicing their dislike for heirarchy depth
in gopher holes[1][2][3]. I use a Year->Month->Posts setup
with my gopher hole on Grex, but not with my SDF,
Tilde.town, or circumlunar holes.

My main justification was post frequency[3], but that's
really only half of the picture. As ckeen stated, one could
simply have a directory with the latest 5 posts, plus a
directory sorted by year/month. My other justification for
my behavior, I suppose, is that I am attempting to use zero
CGI in my gopher holes. Ultimately, I'd like to have no
gophermap where possible, a simple gophermap where needed or
wanted, and no CGI unless I really can't get around it.

My first gopher hole was on SDF. I created a few bits of
PHP-based CGI, only to realize that SDF has zero interest in
maintaining a functioning CLI version of PHP. I then had a
gopher server at home, but it had to go offline for a while,
and it hasn't come back. I thought that maybe I'd just
re-write my stuff in a language that wasn't hated by the
staff, but then I got to think "why bother?" Ultimately,
gopher just didn't need what I was creating. Gopher works
fine with just directories and files. The idea began to
appeal to me, and it's what I'm attempting to do now.

Maybe I could have a "latest posts" folder, with symlinks to
the static content. No CGI, and less annoyance for users.
I'll have to try that out. I guess I could have a script to
maintain it, that doesn't count against my no-CGI
fixation...

Another annoying thing I do, I'm sure, is format my posts at
60 columns. Since I'm not abusing the "i" items like ckeen
noted some sites do, this isn't super critical. In fact,
even in old clients, I believe that text files will just
wrap (In those clients, long "i" items will be cut off,
but not text files.) So, I don't know why I do it. I guess
I'm stubborn and lazy; I'm already doing it, I know it works
in all gopher clients, and I don't feel like testing
anything else across the several clients. Plus, with my
screen resolution and tiling window manager, it reads nicely
enough for me. And, no one has complained about it yet.

[1] gopher://vernunftzentrum.de:70/0/ckeen/phlog/2018-03-27-Gophermaps-and-item-types.md
[2] gopher://zelibertinegamer.me:70/0/phlog/2018-03-18_1452.txt
[3] gopher://grex.org:70/0/~tfurrows/phlog/2018/MAR2018/ali_hierarchies.txt

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