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After hosting my own gopherhole for about three months, I've decided to move all my Gopher content to my Gemini capsule and no longer serve content over Gopher.
Why the switch?
A large part of my attraction to protocols like Gopher and Gemini is that they are simple enough that people can manage sites built on them by hand. I have found in my life that putting effort into my daily activities helps them to become more fulfilling, so I like to manage my content on both protocols by hand. The only exceptions to this are a few formatting scripts and the changelog, which is automatically generated from the git repository that stores the content.
In order to encourage visitors to peruse both sites, I hosted some content (such as binary files) exclusively on Gopher and some content (such as mathematical notes) exclusively on Gemini. This meant that I was hand-curating content for two different sites, and I found that that took too much time for me. Between my other daily activities, I simply wasn't generating and posting enough content to justify having two different sites with different content on each.
The other headache I ran into was managing content that appeared on both sites, specifically the log. While I was posting entries on the Gemini capsule in gemtexts, the Gopher site was serving the log over text, which meant no links, and I didn't want to write a script to convert gemtexts to gophermaps. I eventually want to include things such as tags and images in my log entries, and to create a script to convert that format into something that worked with Gopher would have taken more effort than I wanted to put into it.
At the time of writing, I am not serving any CGI content from the gopherhole over Gemini. This is simply because I have never run a CGI script using gmnisrv, and I don't quite know how to do it yet. This should be rectified in the next few days. Soon you will be able to receive a US weather forecast from this capsule!
My gopherhole is indexed by Veronica2 and is linked on SDF, so I will keep running the server, but it now only serves a single page linking to this capsule.
Stay tuned!
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[Last updated: 2021-10-28]