I want to understand how zlg feels in his recent post about
gopher hole hierarchies[1]. My understanding based on my
reading is that he (I think it's a he, the about page didn't
say) feels that people over-engineer their gopher holes,
making them less pleasant to use.
Honestly, I'd love to have all my posts in one place, but I
feel like there are too many for that to make sense. zlg has
60 items in his phlog folder, from 2016 to present. I have
40 items in last month's folder alone, and 26 so far this
month. I could blab less... otherwise, the hierarchy makes
sense to me.
Of course, zlg's phlog post doesn't call me out or anything,
but I'm actually a little annoyed at my phlog setup, so I'm
projecting his comments onto myself on purpose. Hand me the
flail, please!
Looking at the other side of the coin, my method for
consuming gopher media consists mainly of Bongusta[2] and
other lists via VF1[3] with the "tour" command. Which means
that I generally am not caught up in people's structures;
every once in a while a bongusta entry will take me to a
higher level of someone's phlog, and I have to drill down
one or two levels to get the content, but with VF1's tour
command, it doesn't mess up my flow, so I don't mind so
much. If I was using lynx or UMN Gopher, it would probably
be a lot more hassle.
I'm hopeful that zlg will perhaps post again with an idea
for somewhat high-ish volume phlogs... I'd love to hear
about it, even if re-organizing broke all the links once
again.
[1]
gopher://zelibertinegamer.me:70/0/phlog/2018-03-18_1452.txt
[2]
gopher://i-logout.cz:70/1/en/bongusta
[3]
gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/solderpunk/phlog/introducing-vf1.txt
