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Not always online capsules

nervuri nervuri at disroot.org

Thu Sep 23 19:04:02 BST 2021

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On Tue, 2021-09-21, Alice wrote:

The expectation that the whole internet is always online feels like a
massive waste of resource. It should be ok for a capsule to say "hey,
I'm not online. Come back later, or check this mirror". Instead we get
fatal looking errors.

An example:

https://oh.mg/bbs/news/merci-free/

"I've redirected the domain temporarily to my hosting account withNetcup, but Gemini, Gopher, and the BBS just won't be online until Imove and the connection is installed in the new place."