Entered: in vim on x201 | Date: 20200204
So, I had an idea today. We have reddit, hacker news, lobste.rs, and other sites' frontends on gopher. These all typically link to the submissions via HTTP and show a static view of comments that exist on the respective site. You cannot stay strictly on gopher, and you cannot comment from gopher. Wouldn't it be nice if a link aggregator existed solely on gopher? I
fleshing out the idea.
The more I thought about it, the simpler it seemed. So,
. Port 70 News is now live and accepting submissions. Currently it has a centralized guestbook for comments. Please try it out and let's see if we can stop relying on WWW sites a bit more.