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Announcing gemini://ecmelberk.com

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Fri May 15 22:07:36 BST 2020

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It was thus said that the Great Ecmel Berk Canlıer once stated:
> Hey all!

  Hello.

> I just wanted to let people know I am now hosting a Gemini server for
> my own site.
> 
> I am currently using molly-brown as my server software, though I will
> most likely fork it (or write another one myself) as I have something
> specific in mind, and none of the existing software seem to be flexible
> enough to do it.

  I'm curious as to the feature you have in mind.  Care to share?

> As for my thoughts about Gemini (from someone who never used anything
> but HTTP): It's really nice. The only suggestion I'd give would be to
> make text/gemini have a little more flexibility in terms of formatting
> (maybe like Markdown, but w/o images), but I do realise that (1) it
> would be difficult to render to any TUI browser and (2) most formatting
> can be accomplished via clever ASCII/ANSI art, especially if you write
> it by hand and not use any scripts like I do.

  Check the archives [1] for previous discussions.  It won't be hard to findthem, as they make up about half the posts so far.

> Anyway, I wish Gemini succeeds, and I wish everyone a good day!

  Thanks.

  -spc

[1]	https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/