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Title: Re: Gopher Annoyances
Date: 2021-04-21
Tags: gopher, meta, formatting, terminal

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  So, while browsing Gopher this morning, I came across a piece by xiled[0],
who was replying to The Wandering Geek's post[1] about annoyances with some
gopher posts. Of course I'm writing about it, so it obviously sparked something
within me, or I would've just moved on.

  Truth be told, I'm also a lynx user when it comes to browsing the gopherspace
on my laptop. And yes, I do get annoyed by some things that people do when they
put files up for reading. Permissions errors and randomized filenames are the
worst I've come across in my personal experience. It's why I tend to give my
files names that reflect their contents as best I can, or use the title of the
phlog post without making it too long. And of course, I try to test things out
before I consider the update _finished_, but I'll always miss something these
days with how tired I usually am.

  That said, somthing that The Wandering Geek said really hits home for me:

>> Gopher is not the web. Gopher is, well, gopher. Let's keep it that
   way.

  I completely agree with this statement. It's part of why I haven't bought
into Gemini, since I don't really have a personal need for a half-way point
between the web and gopher. Gopher is gopher, the web is the web, and Gemini
is Gemini. Let's keep them their own things.

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[0]: gopher://sdf.org/1/users/xiled/phlog/2021/20210420_gopher_gemini
[1]: gopher://gopher.unixlore.net/0/glog/gopher-annoyances.md

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