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Its a neat little bit of flavor but as skyjake says its cost is non-trivial.
2023-07-11 · 11 days ago
This feature is only usable to some clients and not others. In my own case, I use Deedum on Android and Kristall on desktop, neither of which support streaming. The result is that I only see a static page that loads slowly. Of course I'm in the minority opinion that streaming should not be allowed in the Gemini protocol to begin with, but that's a different discussion.
This is a horrible thing to do, both to the server and the client!
And yet I have to admit it is kind of fun.
Here's another example, this capsule uses streaming to simulate slower baud rates for ansi art scrolling.
Animations in gemini — I found this capsule off of #discogem. I was surprised because the loading of the page had an animation on every page. so of course I dug a bit. The owner of the capsule created their own server called Atlas and it enables this through streaming. I've seen this before with a chat program but never for animations. Figured I'd share and see what folks thought. cool or distracting?