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I love Gopher, it's a nice, extremely light protocol with none of the added BS I hate about the web. The only people who use it these days are a particular type

by cpsns 4y ago

I love Gopher, it's a nice, extremely light protocol with none of the added BS I hate about the web. The only people who use it these days are a particular type of person, the type that I generally enjoy reading the thoughts and work of. I actually setup a new service on Gopher recently, a lightweight Google News reader[1] and it works better than I could have really hoped. [1] http://muezza.ca/projects/gophernews/ http://muezza.ca/projects/gophernews/

reaperducer 4y ago
The only people who use it these days are a particular type of person, the type that I generally enjoy reading the thoughts and work of. Then you might enjoy reading your own thoughts, since it's possible to read HN via gopher. Sorry I don't have the address right now. It's bookmarked on my TRS-80.
- cpsns 4y ago
  It's gopher://hngopher.com:70/ for anyone reading this that wants to check it out.
  - mzs 4y ago
    Nice asciiart!
    - cpsns 4y ago
      It's not my project, but the dude's work is very nice indeed.
- epilys 4y ago
  Here's also a read-only NNTP/Usenet bridge for HN you can self-host https://github.com/epilys/nntpserver.py/blob/main/examples/hnnntp.py https://github.com/epilys/nntpserver.py/blob/main/examples/h...
  - 0x445442 4y ago
    Thanks for this. I’m going to attempt to get it working today. I’ve always wondered if this would work given the data models seem to be a very close match.