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Hi everyone, it's been almost a week since I am playing around with
gemini (hosting this server, not just browing gemini pages).
I am writing down below a few things I think could be helpful on what
I've learned so far.
Lagrange(1) is a gorgeous gemini client. Let's be very honest, if you
want a terminal client, bombadillo(2) is awesome and I am loving it. But
if you fancy a graphical interface, then Lagrange is definitively a
strong option. Easy, fast, slick, smooth, gorgeous...plenty of
adjective can apply here. *BUT* (Yeah it's always about the but...) by
default, and that's just my very personal opinion, it does render pages
in a weird way that got me quite confused. So first of all if you're
using it I would recommend to go into the Preferences and set it up
with:
Style -> Monospace body "Gemini"
-> Line width: "Window"
The rest are cosmetic changes, adjust as you like. But in terms of page
rendering I think those two options should be the default one as it's
clearly targetting the Geminispace.
As of March 2021 there's already a ton of content on gemini. And
surprisingly there's a ton of nice and easy way to find new content.
From lovely index/directory, to very decent search options.
The two you shouldn't miss are:
medusae.space *the* gemini directory
geminispace.info gemini search engine
And if you're still at a stage of looking for the best client or server
to suit your need, here's a good place to look at:
Are you addicted yet? need your daily dose of gemilove?
Join the #gemini IRC channel on tilde.chat
Search the #gemini hashtag on Mastodon
You should pretty quickly see in your server logs a lot of visit from
2001:41d0:302:2200::180 or 193.70.85.11 this is the Lupa, gemini
crawler. More information and all the interesting stats are here:
To get yourself indexed, forget about GUS.guru which is stuck since "Index
updated on: 2020-12-06" . I am not being very successfull with
geminispace.info either, it does warm it takes a few days, but even
though I could see an update from today 16th of March nothing from what
I've manually added last week. I need to check I am probably doing
something wrong.
The TLS certificate exchange appears to be the part of Gemini which eats
the most bandwidth. When linking to directories in your gemtext, you
should always add the tailing slash at the of your path. Otherwise the
server will treat it as a redirect. Which is something we want to avoid.
I realized this thanks to bombadillo which is asking by default:
Follow redirect (y/n): gemini://clemat.is/saccophore/library/ezines/?
And I was like, redirect? I am just pointing to a local folder. Some
clients don't show this so you might not notice.
So, to summarize:
The wrong way to do it: => library/ezines ezines The right way to do it: => library/ezines/ ezines
This is all very much "work in progress" but thanks to someone pointing
out on Mastodon, there's a "convention" to make your gemlog
"subscrition" friendly. Any additional comments, tips&tricks please let
me know.
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/companion/subscription.gmi