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This is where you can leave feedback for me to read. I typically
won't censor anything except spam and harassment. It's especially
useful if you know of any Gopherspaces that are worth reading! If it's
interesting to me, it might end up in the "Other Gopherholes" page.
When commenting, tell me about yourself and/or what brings you to
gopherspace. It'd be nice to see how far my little gopherhole is
reaching!
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comment 110
2025-10-03 04:56
Upon closer inspection, sgopherd has discontinued and moved onto
a Rust-powered successor. I've kept a copy of sgopherd for myself
since my poor RPi doesn't need that extra dependency. I'm shopping
around for gopher servers so I can figure out how to best "write
once, publish everywhere". sgopherd is fine for now and I can hack
on it, but it's good to know what's out there. --zlg
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comment 109
2025-08-23 13:58
Just wanted to drop an update here: I want to hack on a Pelican
generator for sgopherd, to publish to both HTTP and Gopher at the
same time. This would make life easier for me. If this interests
anyone, please let me know! --zlg
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comment 108
2025-05-07 17:54
Do you have straight-jackets for the guests?
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comment 107
2024-10-31 03:38
@106 Yeah, this particular place is meant for Gopher-related
content. Nothing against smolweb things, I might find a place to
add the link on another, more relevant protocol. Also thanks for
mentioning Spanish shame. I had never heard of that before! --zlg
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comment 106
2024-09-17 09:07
http hosting in Gopher is spanish shame
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comment 105
2024-09-16 09:37
[removed: off-topic]
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comment 104
2024-06-13 20:02
[removed: spam]
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comment 103
2024-06-03 23:00
People like Gopher. I think because when they see him for the first
time, they ask: “Wow! It's really is be possible?”
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comment 102
2024-06-02 23:28
(cont'd from @101) also lots of niche and nerdy content on here that
is harder to find on the Web. Stuff like HAM radio, retro computing,
DSP fiddling, etc. --zlg
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comment 101
2024-06-02 23:26
It took 8 years but congrats on getting the 100th comment! lol That
aside, I think a lot of Gopherholes start out with little in the way
of direction, and evolve as the author explores or thinks more about
things. A lot end up just as phlogs, but there's
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comment 100
2024-05-28 09:15
My situation is the opposite. I'm worried that I won't be scolded
for using too much traffic in Gopher :) In fact a just need to
understand what you want to offer people. Most Gopher Holes are
one-page messages: "I'm alive, I was here." In general, it seems to
me that this protocol is the future. People are tired of HTTPs
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comment 99
2024-05-27 11:22
The mid-2010s was an interesting time where forward-thinking techies
were looking backwards, pining for something simpler than HTTP.
Now that Gopher's been rediscovered, Gemini has been made, and
ActivityPub is taking off, we're seeing a bit less participation
than we had during the early hey-day of Bongusta. My own Gopherhole
has been off- and on-line since 2016. It seems to be the nature of
the 'net. --zlg
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comment 98
2024-05-27 09:08
In Gopher, if exclude the TOR network, there are approximately 400
servers in Online. In fact, this is very little. Just 6 years ago
there were many times more of them. I borrowed Gopher hosting to
develop the Gopher:// space. In fact, basic things are missing.
Free Gopher hosting with FTP access and normal virtual disk space,
free guest book service and other. This is the base for future
development of GopherSpace. Thanks for conversations.
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comment 97
2024-05-27 06:22
@96 Maybe that will be the topic of my next post. This code could
use some review anyway. :) --zlg
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comment 96
2024-05-26 08:11
Yes, here: gopher://shibboleths.org/1/home/gb Unfortunately there
are not so many of them. It seems that most people, including
myself, have problems setting up a guestbook for Gopher.
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comment 95
2024-05-26 06:31
@94 that's an interesting idea. Do you have a link to a list of
guestbooks you've foiund thus far? --zlg
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comment 94
2024-05-22 08:56
I'm collecting links to all the Gopher guestbooks so I can read them
to stay up to date with all the goings-on on GopherSpace. There are
very few guest books at Gopher. Therefore, I would be grateful if
you share links to new guest books. Guestbooks always contain new
links to other Gopher holers.
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comment 93
2024-05-22 07:27
Thanks for the new links to look at, guys! I enjoy coming back to
this page to remember why I hang out on Gopher. :) I took the
opportunity to clean up the comments a little and reformat
multi-post comments for easier viewing. I left a 'transparency
trail' behind as to what happened to each comment affected.
Yeah, it's a bit crazy for a little guestbook, but I'm
testing some ideas here before I expand them. Please let me
know what you guys think of this small change to viewing
comments. --zlg
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comment 92
2024-05-16 19:45
Hello from gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/1/~zaphodb/
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comment 91
2024-05-13 10:24
[removed: spam]
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comment 90
2024-03-20 20:57
Hello from gopher://shibboleths.org Happy gophering!
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comment 89
2024-03-09 18:53
This is nice, Gopher is a nice, simple protocol.
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comment 88
2024-03-09 18:51
This is a comment
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comment 87
2024-02-18 12:19
http://old.net.eu.org/
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comment 86
2024-02-18 12:19
https://github.com/turboblack/HamsterCMS
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comment 85
2024-01-16 07:20
test numero dos.
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comment 84
2024-01-15 16:40
Yet another test, we're recovering from a drive failure that
happened at the end of 2023. The Underground lives on! --zlg
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comment 83
2023-11-13 17:22
Saying hi from sunny california. Keep it up!
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comment 82
2023-06-29 19:35
Hello from the Netherlands
Keep on Gophering !
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comment 81
2023-04-08 06:58
testing in 2023
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comment 80
2022-09-05 06:44
y helo thar
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comment 79
2022-04-11 01:49
I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay.
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comment 78
2022-03-22 00:26
hello from gopher://magical.fish
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comment 77
2022-03-07 11:08
[removed: bad request]
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comment 76
2022-03-05 07:10
[removed: bad request]
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comment 75
2022-01-23 18:05
Greetings from gopher://gopherspace.de - German Gopher Service
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comment 74
2021-12-13 22:44
[removed: duplicate of @73]
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comment 73
2021-12-13 22:41
Hi :D interesting gopherhole, thx
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comment 72
2021-11-04 17:06
Good afternoon. I propose to exchange links. If you are
interested, please write the answer in my guestbook. Thanks.
gopher://gopher.erb.pw/1/roman
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comment 71
2021-11-01 19:38
@65: The gopherhole's code is hosted at
https://git.zlg.space/gopher. I've been making improvements lately.
:) -- zlg
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comment 70
2021-10-31 00:44
Commenting has been fixed! --zlg
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comment 69
2021-06-18 16:57
hi!
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comment 68
2020-12-07 19:37
Hello!
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comment 67
2020-11-20 12:52
Hello world
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comment 66
2020-10-06 03:26
hi
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comment 65
2020-09-26 13:49
Hi from gopher://yasendfile.org. Keep up the nice gopher work!
Perhaps we can share guestbook scripts ;-)
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comment 64
2020-07-21 03:36
Hi Hayden! Thanks for such a long comment, sorry I missed it by over
a month! Cool stuff on your gopherhole; your infrastructure diagrams
are pretty nice! I'll add it to my links page. :) --zlg
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comment 63
2020-06-14 00:28
[combined to @60]
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comment 62
2020-06-08 16:34
[combined to @60]
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comment 61
2020-06-08 16:33
[combined to @60]
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comment 60
2020-06-08 16:29
[combined and formatted for easier viewing]
[haydenh, please reach out if my formatting is wrong --zlg]
Hi from gopher://haydenvh.com:73. I saw some discussion of gopher
clients here, so I thought I'd chip in with one that I found
and started modifiying and maintaining. The original source is
http://github.com/kieselsteini/cgo, and my version of it can be
found here git://haydenvh.com/cgo.
The client is written in C, and there is a small shell script that
goes along with it, that is used as a plumber, for handing off
files to be opened by external programs. All navigation is done
with the keyboard, with each link being assigned a certain key
(aa, ab, ac ... zz, aaa, aab ..., zzz). All other commands are
done using punctuation, and they can perform different
functionality when a string is appended to them.
My personal reason for coming to gopherspace is primarily the fact
that when I want to write something, I can just start typing it,
without having to care much about how my markdown is going to look
in html form, etc. I also love the scriptability that I have on
the gopher server I use, geoymidae. I've since written a bit about
it here:
gopher://haydenvh.com:73/1/git/cgo.gph --haydenh
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comment 59
2020-05-25 17:23
I have made my VGStash database available publicly for people to
crunch, via JSON file. Check out the announcements section for more
details. --zlg
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comment 58
2020-03-22 20:31
testing again
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comment 57
2019-12-30 17:27
Hello from gopher://tildecow.com Thanks for the Phun!
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comment 56
2019-12-23 22:20
Nice!
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comment 55
2019-11-05 03:28
Just tossing another comment onto the pile to show I'm still around.
Life's been crazy but I'm still here! --zlg
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comment 54
2019-07-23 03:15
The server was down for a while as I was swapping OSes out. It
should be more stable from now on. --zlg
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comment 53
2019-06-18 01:57
I finally had the chance to pull off the migration. The gopherhole's
content is rearranged. There are more things to iron out yet, but
the "big" work is done. --zlg
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comment 52
2019-06-17 02:50
The phlog has been completely removed as of today. Links pointing to
entries will no longer work. Thanks to those who read it over the
years. --zlg
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comment 51
2019-05-01 00:28
The phlog has been closed as of today. --zlg
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comment 50
2019-04-22 03:22
hi from magical.fish:70
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comment 49
2019-04-12 02:36
Thanks for this space
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comment 48
2019-01-31 17:35
Greetz from cyberspace - gopher://InfinitelyRemote.com
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comment 47
2019-01-26 16:07
@46: Thanks for the link! I've had a passing interest in Plan
9 for a while, maybe I'll throw it into a VM and give it an
honest shot. --zlg
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comment 46
2019-01-26 15:55
plan9 from gopherspace -- kamalatta.ddnss.de
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comment 44
2018-08-10 04:15
@42: It is indeed one of the easiest ways to find feeds, since
they tend to hang out in the head element. It's not so easy
to find in a mobile browser, though, which is why I added the
extra link at the bottom. Thanks for the tip though! --zlg
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comment 42
2018-08-08 18:55
Hey, so I was just reading your post about RSS feed
discoverability, and I found that the simplest way for me to
find the feeds was by using firefox to look directly as the
source of the page. It's usually near the top of the page, and
one can search the source to find the feed.
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comment 41
2018-08-05 08:09
The website now has its subscribe link, at the bottom. --zlg
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comment 40
2018-07-29 08:26
@39: Thanks! It's a simple fix, and doesn't disrupt the
average site design due to how common footers with lists of
links are. As a side note, lynx seems to cut off my database
queries once it reaches the edge of the screen... Does it do
that for you? --zlg
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comment 39
2018-07-29 03:42
the bit about adding a visible link to your feed is a very
good suggestion. lynx will still show feeds at the top, but
the share of the browser world held by lynx is tiny. - jynx
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comment 38
2018-07-01 06:28
yo
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comment 37
2018-06-24 22:45
Howdy!
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comment 36
2018-06-11 13:06
Hi! Good stuff.
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comment 33
2018-02-12 10:08
This comment is made using vf1 as well. I've noticed that I
cannot use the 'less' command without some sort of tmpfile,
which vf1 can't seem to create. Do I need to do anything
special to fix this? --zlg
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comment 32
2018-02-11 09:10
Hey ZLG, Solderpunk here, testing your guestbook with VF-1!
Expect an email from me in the near future on this matter.
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comment 31
2018-02-06 20:46
@30: Thanks! ASCII art's more difficult than it looks, but the
effect is well worth it. --zlg
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comment 30
2018-02-04 11:11
hi zlg, you have created a nice place here. i'll come back
later for reading more of your articles. your ascii-art is
beautiful. --kroovy
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comment 29
2017-12-02 22:19
Gopher clients are super easy to write. I have a server
that I wrote in python. You can just do the complement.
gopher://dread.life/1/
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comment 28
2017-11-20 22:43
love your blog, keep it up! --boomlinde
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comment 27
2017-10-29 00:32
@26 currently I use lynx on my desktop and Overbite Android
for my phone. Neither are optimal. When I get the gumption,
I'm considering building a gopher client in Python (or maybe
C), since there really aren't any good ones out there. --zlg
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comment 26
2017-10-28 21:52
What does everyone use to browse the gophersphere?
After much research, I landed on this
https://sites.google.com/site/matjaz85/gopherclient
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comment 25
2017-10-26 22:57
I like to stab li poly batteries with a needle until they make
big fire. also I miss chester from linkin park.
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comment 24
2017-08-14 00:44
Greetings from Wyoming! I am also running a gopher
server on an RPi3 - The Raspberry Pi of Death -
gopher://rpod.leveck.us:70
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comment 22
2017-06-11 23:05
Keep on keeping on! :)
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comment 21
2017-05-13 02:36
@20 Great to hear! I've been meaning to get back to EO as
well. I beat EO1 but the 6th stratum is a pain! I might just
move onto EO2... --zlg
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comment 20
2017-04-11 19:55
Your gopherhole instilled me with great interest in dungeon
crawlers. Starting Legend of Grimrock and Etrian Odyssey when
I fix a DS that's laying around.
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comment 18
2017-02-19 05:46
Greetings from dusted.dk! Really cool gopherhole! I'll be
checking up on this! By the way, check out npm gopher-lib :)
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comment 15
2017-01-01 07:32
@13 I checked your gopherhole out just the other night and
like how each page's content is behind a 'link', so it's not
inundating the navigation. Self-hosting is a great idea,
and becoming more attractive as more companies try to run
analytics on people. Stay safe out there, and thanks for
visiting! --zlg
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comment 14
2017-01-01 07:30
@11 Glad to know someone else appreciates the design of older
games! I'm actually not done with that article; I plan to
cover a few more games with it in the future. I agree that a
lot of people don't experiment as much as they used to, and
the design of many things suffers as a result. Thanks for
visiting! --zlg
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comment 13
2016-12-28 13:06
Great gopherhole! I'm digging my own at dusted.dk but it may
not be of interest, thought I'm a fellow programmer! :) I like
the idea of an Internet that is more than the web and more
than "Apps" and commercial services. All have computers, all
build it!
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comment 11
2016-12-23 15:07
Guten Tag, mein Freund! I grew up with SNES, and MMX was
my absolute-favorite cartridge. The thing is, my parents
got most of my games used, which never came with a manual.
I never asked questions; I just played them and see'd what
happen'd. Over time, people just started asking more and more
questions, afraid to "just do it and see what happens." Props
for remembering Super Metroid too. What a fantastic lot of
entertainment. --Brian G
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comment 10
2016-10-19 11:37
@9 I hope you enjoy your travels!
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comment 9
2016-10-11 01:02
Just browsing the gopherspace.
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comment 8
2016-10-07 12:21
test
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comment 7
2016-07-07 12:28
@6: Yeah, Firefox has been odd ever since the Australis UI
got pushed. With Hello, Pocket, and the upcoming deprecation
of their extension system, Mozilla is taking things in a
direction I'm not sure is best for the Web. I enjoyed the
ideas that uzbl represented: using an embeddable browser
engine and creating simple plumbing around it to facilitate
user needs is the most UNIX-y way to do it, and has the
potential to build a broad and active community. afaik, uzbl's
not even active anymore, which is a shame.
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comment 6
2016-06-28 15:58
So-called "modern" web browsers mostly suck. That is why
SeaMonkey ("unofficial" community-driven software) is better
than Firefox (official commercial product of the Mozilla
Foundation).
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comment 4
2016-06-27 18:49
I've had similar results in Firefox and noticed the same
things, except text files would never render in UTF-8 unless
I told it to. The last time I checked up on Firefox settings,
upstream seemed to have actively removed UTF-8-by-default
stating "UTF-8 is not a legacy encoding so we
shouldn't list it in fallbacks." I'll recheck my settings to
see if I can find a way around it. Good to know Floodgap's
listing is bringing some visitors! :)
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comment 3
2016-06-26 00:11
There is a way to use OverbiteFF with UTF-8 by default
(without any manual switching). I use SeaMonkey with
OverbiteFF extension for Gopher. My settings are:
1)Settings->Languages->Encoding by default->UTF-8;
2)View->Encoding->Autodetection->None in SeaMonkey graphical
menu. The result? All Gopher menus (type 1) and text files
(type 0) are rendered as UTF-8. But if I encounter a Gopher
menu or a text document in any encoding other than UTF-8, I
have to manually switch. P.S.: I came across your hole through
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/new
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comment 2
2016-06-16 02:51
Testing, one two.
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comment 1
2016-06-16 00:47
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