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       I found a neat project today that I'm going to follow on Github. It
       a QT5 and webkit based gopher browser written in Go. The project is
       called prologic/gopherclient on Github. The author is currently in 
       process of converting it over to use a different http library so yo
       have to checkout the webview branch. It still won't build, though.
       There seems to be a small issue with the gopherproxy library it's
       using.
       
       Basically what it looks like user prologic has done is written a
       gopher proxy (prologic/gopherproxy). He's then written a very simpl
       webkit based http browser that uses the proxy library on the backen
       to seamlessly render http requests in to gopher requests. This way 
       get a relatively modern "graphical" interface to gopher without
       relying on a third party proxy like floodgap. Not that there's
       anything wrong with using third party proxies. I just prefer to kee
       it all local when I can.
       
       I'm hoping to do some work to help the author with this project in 
       near future. I've already opened a few PRs and commented on the ope
       issue for converting things to webview. Hopefully we'll sort things
       out and have it working relatively soon.
       
       In the mean time I've found a workaround solution. I'm running
       prologic/gopherproxy in docker locally and pointing Firefox at
       http://localhost:8000/<gopher-url>. It's not as seamless as the nat
       browser would be; you're browsing to localhost followed by a slash 
       then the gopher url you want, but it's good enough for my needs rig
       now. All I was hoping for was a slightly more graphical way to
       interface with gopher sites since gopher now has some early support
       for image and video files. So far, it's working out just fine.
       
       https://github.com/prologic/gopherproxy
       https://github.com/prologic/gopherclient