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Gemfeed for gopher?

I'm considering if it wouldn't be a good idea to use, mutatis mutandis, gemfeeds on gopher; making for an easy to implement subscription with clients such as lagrange, possibly others. Obviously this would require adoption by gopherites... just an idea

🏕️ Yretek

Oct 29 · 2 months ago

4 Comments ↓

🚀 skyjake · Oct 29 at 15:01:

Here's a phlog where they use gemfeed date links:

— gopher://uberspace.net:70/1/~defanor/

You can subscribe to it in Lagrange and it works perfectly.

Gopher predates gemfeeds by a few decades, though, so I would venture a guess that phloggers don't actually care about this type of subscriptions? 🙂 Not sure what kind of clients people use for Gopher nowadays...

🏕️ Yretek · Oct 29 at 16:13:

Oh, yes! It works on my own gopher hole too. Just updated it to comform to gemtext :)

🚀 clseibold · Oct 31 at 00:56:

@skyjake Aggregation feeds were used in the gopher community prior to Gemini's existance. I can't remember how it worked exactly, but I think they just looked for changes on pages, and if there was an update to a page (the hash or contents of it changed), then the page would be listed as updated on that day.

So it wasn't quite like subscriptions yet, but it was very close. Some of the early Gemini aggregation feeds were definitely inspired by the ones in the Gopher community, afaik.

There was also this way to name files with a prefix of letters that correspond to the date so that you could get files ordered by date. Finally, I think people put dates in their gophermaps, but I'm not sure there was any standard. I looked at my old phlog, and it looks like I did it like so below:

0(2018-09-19) First Post - First Impressions first_phlog_post.txt

🚀 clseibold · Nov 04 at 20:51:

@anisotropus Thanks for linking! Bongusta is in fact one of the aggregation feeds that I was talking about :)

I wish I remembered what the other was was called. You can also find an aggregation feed specifically for the Zaibatsu Circumlunar Gopher server: gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/1/updates/