On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 01:02:43AM -0600, Andrew Singleton wrote: > Also hi, I'm new here. I unfortunately don't have any real technical > background. I just like the idea of a sort of middle ground between HTTP > and Gopher that's still 'advertising and bloat hostile.' Given my poor > vision and my interest in low bandwidth networking a text centric thing > suits me. Welcome, glad you like the goals of the project! I had actually been planning to make a spec change this weekend, which would add to the text/gemini definition the verbatim text block idea (since nobody spoke out strongly, or even weakly, in opposition to it after my last email on the subject) as well as a *subset* of the strictly optional extra features we discussed, including e.g. headings beginning with # and non-nested unordered lists with *, both as per CommonMark. Further, after making that change I plan to decree "absolutely no spec changes for at least six months (or maybe three, let's see how extreme I'm feeling on Sunday), unless some kind of horrible serious problem is discovered (I can't imagine what that could be)". I don't even want to seriously *discuss* possible spec changes for that long. The reason for this is that we are operating far too much in a vacuum. There is still very little original content in Geminispace, and even less of it which isn't *about* Gemini. There are plenty of features in the current spec which nobody has used yet, as far as I know, or have not been used for anything other than fun little tests. We have multiple server implementations, multiple client implementations and now even a search engine! I have offered free Geminispace at gemini.circumlunar.space to anybody who wants it. It is high time for us to actually build stuff with what we have achieved so far. Cheers, Solderpunk
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