I remember being very enthusiastic about my Gemini wiki, Phoebe. I setup transjovian.org, wrote a HTML layer, added a MUSH plugin, an edit-via-the-web plugin, a WebDAV plugin, personal “capsules” (sites), a proxy for my Oddmuse based wikis… I was sooo enthusiastic!
But… I don’t know. On the one hand, a very simple form of HTML would still be nice. In fact, Oddmuse is sort of “nice enough”. It could take a rewrite, for sure. But the fact remains that it is nice enough.
And on the Gemini side, client certificates and all that remained a constant theme. Once a year at least, I have to think about it all.
And sadly, Phoebe somehow doesn’t work all that well. It keep crashing or hanging, I don’t quite know. Perhaps the constant barrage of bots (most of them blocked!) results in deadlocks or memory problems or whatnot. In any case, seeing requests not getting answered half the time and the service rebooting every hour (at least that’s what it feels like)… I don’t know. It gets me down.
Restarts:
Aug 17 22:13:21 Aug 17 23:05:39 Aug 17 23:48:33 Aug 18 00:37:03 Aug 18 01:19:31 Aug 18 02:04:39 Aug 18 02:41:18 Aug 18 03:26:14 Aug 18 04:12:47 Aug 18 04:59:18 Aug 18 05:43:48 Aug 18 06:26:44 Aug 18 07:08:51 Aug 18 08:21:11 Aug 18 09:20:43 Aug 18 10:07:27 Aug 18 10:44:10
Disheartening! 💔
#Gemini #Phoebe
It’s very minimal, like Ward’s Wiki was at one time. No version control! But it is password protected. Can’t do without these days. But what’s key for me is that password protection, rate limiting and HTTPS is provided by the web server and fail2ban, not the wiki.
It’s Oddµ.
I also got this comment:
I agree that client certificates are a pain and I hate them – Sandra