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Gopher is/cyb/ as fuck. You'll get better answers at lainchan.

>>57142799
I have also been using gopher more and more, I have a gopherhole but not sure what to use it for yet, so far its just silly mole scripts and tests.

gopher://gopherpedia.com is pretty cool

>I've been playing around with gopherholes for about a week now

Chances are you've seen everything interesting on it by now. I don't like saying that, but it's true.

It's like BBSs: interesting as a living chunk of history but pretty worthless.

This is coming from someone who hates web 2.0 and want a return to pure HTML sites.

>>57143619
Gopher is boring, but that's why we love it. The Gopher philosophy of "structure from chaos" means content > style, and even plain HTML sites while 1000x better than what the web has become can be made complicated.

You can make an HTML web site as simple as a Gopherhole, but there's a comfort in going to a Gopherhole and already knowing it will be simple because it can't be anything else.

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>>57143850
The issue is, like I said, the lack of presence, meaning that the argument of "content before style" is moot since there is no content.

After a week you would have, quite literally, seen it all, saved the interesting parts, and wont ever need to check it again since everything will always be the same.

Believe me, no one wishes for the opposite more than me, but it simply isn't the case.

>>57144226
Places like floodgap are still offering new or dynamic content, but its true that the web has more, it just has more garbage too.

The "fix" is what most modern Gopherholes do, use an HTTP Gopher proxy on top of their Gopher server. This way you can adopt the Gopher philosophy and simplicity while still being easily accessible on the web as well as Gopherspace. A lot of modern Gopher daemons will have this built in (like pygopherd).

If you're not a content creator then its not really anything you can control, but I think its a good idea to continue to spread the word about Gopher, so people can compare the structure of Gopher to the more flexible but chaotic mishmash of the present web.

>>57144226
i miss moot

I'm a strong believer in things like Gopher, BBSs, Usenet, etc. because of the far lower quantity of energy required to run them. You could host a minor one on a 3w Raspberry Pi (and people have), with a desktop being considered more than enough for something bigger simply due to the kind of data that they deal in.