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I am actually interested in reviving gopher I am wondering if folks would interested - or has any recommendations for a first step would be.
by tofupup 11y ago
I am actually interested in reviving gopher I am wondering if folks would interested - or has any recommendations for a first step would be.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoNo need to revive it, it's alive if not thriving. I'm not sure what the first step should be (well, other than setting up a gophersite, reading the RFCs and looking at some implementations), but given that it maps very well to a hierarchical file system, you could position it as a bookmarking tool or something of the sort. Or you could create an easy way for people to set up their own phlogs and discover others. Position them as convenient alternatives to static site generators while emphasizing Gopher's traits. Either way, it needs to capitalize on people's discontent with web bloat in some way.
- enneff 11y ago> it's alive if not thriving. Really? Any evidence to support this? I'm curious.
- Johnny_Brahms 11y agoI would die for a simple web server that was more or less like mod_dirlist, but that took markdown (or whatever format) and generated a simple gopher-like navigation structure (basically just the folder hierarchy) with some extra stuff for things like info for each directory and stuff. Start it, point it to a directory, just upload markdown files and you are up and running. A few simple rules to follow (like the file _info containing a short directory description, some files not being shown on the directory list). Just for getting shit online. Something like that "motherfuckingwebsite" that gets passed around, but with a simple navigation.
- justinsaccount 11y agoApache sort of supports this now.. https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_autoindex.html#headername https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_autoindex.html#hea... There is probably a way to combine modules to get it to render markdown in place of HEADER.html