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Re: "About the Domain "Geminispace.org""
The v3.0 update has allowed me to add a proper capsule introduction in Help, and also there is an expanded front page welcome text that is shown to unregistered visitors. These should already help quite a bit, but I'm still considering what to do about the domain. One quite a simple option would be to add a subdomain (cf. @Morgan's gemlog.org), so we'd have a "social.geminispace.org" or "bubble.geminispace.org", for example. Long domain names are not ideal, but keeping the subdomain short is always possible.
2023-05-30 · 8 months ago
🦀 jeang3nie · 2023-05-30 at 11:45:
@skyjake actually I really like that idea. Maybe bbs.geminispace.org would be more fitting than social?
🚀 skyjake [OP...] · 2023-05-30 at 12:07:
@jeang3nie "bbs" is appropriate, short, and descriptive. Definitely a contender!
☕️ Morgan · 2023-05-30 at 12:41:
Nice idea. I'm a little hesitant to point this out since it's the sort of minutia you can't unsee once you see it, but, here goes: "bbs" is almost a shortened form of "bubble". If you rebrand to "bubbles", it works. BuBbleS. Naming is hard...
☕️ mozz · 2023-05-30 at 15:40:
Nice idea. I'm a little hesitant to point this out since it's the sort of minutia you can't unsee once you see it, but, here goes: "bbs" is almost a shortened form of "bubble". If you rebrand to "bubbles", it works. BuBbleS. Naming is hard...
I like it, even moreso if "subspaces" are renamed to "bubbles" to match the theme!
🚀 skyjake [OP...] · 2023-05-30 at 16:26:
@mozz Changing what the subspaces are called would make a nice customization option:
It would be relatively painless to redirect all URLs on geminispace.org → bbs.geminispace.org. Might have to add an official redirection feature to GmCapsule first, though.
🦀 jeang3nie · 2023-05-30 at 18:58:
@Morgan I was only thinking about how Bubble is more like an old school bbs than modern social media, but I like the connection. It could even be considered a recursive acronym, Bubble<is not a>BbS? I mean, for extra Unix geekery points that is.
🚀 skyjake [OP...] · 2023-05-30 at 19:35:
I think "bbs" would work fine either way. I partly chose the name "Bubble" because it's a bulletin board system and the word has a "BB" in it. (The other part being the speech bubble.)
Keeping the subspaces term, it could also mean "BuBble Subspaces". Or just "Bubble Bulletin boardS".
I vote for "bbl"
🐵 cquenelle · 2023-05-31 at 15:11:
@morgan @jeang3nie If you check the blurb at the top of the Bubble subspace you’ll see it described as a bulletin board system. Which I think is cool, because they are way better than (anti) ‘social media’
🍵 michaelnordmeyer [mod] · 2023-05-31 at 15:28:
As long as it's geminispace.org, subspace is quite fitting.
And if gs.org's content is moved to a subdomain, what is going to be displayed on "geminispace.org/"? It cannot be anything about Bubble, because bubble.<tld> would be more fitting for that.
I don't think a subdomain removes much of the potential geminispace.org confusion.
🐐 satch · 2023-05-31 at 15:39:
@michaelnordmeyer for now, the root domain could redirect. Personally, I think a subdomain removes the confusion almost entirely. It's not a super necessary change, but I don't really see a drawback.
❄ freezr · 2023-06-01 at 03:52:
I'd like to say that I reserved geminispace.club till 2024... I am not even using it since we moved on pebcak.club... geminspace.club is the sibling of the geminispace.org... And honestly I like it more... Would it be ever possible to transfer a domain to another person? 🤷
🐐 satch · 2023-06-01 at 14:34:
@freezr it is easy to transfer a domain to another person
geminispace should be registered for every tld
🚀 skyjake [OP...] · Sep 01 at 10:40:
@clseibold
I wish solderpunk would consider is putting more than just Capcom on the project gemini page
There was a recent update to the site. All the community links were moved to the FAQ:
It was also greatly expanded with links to all kinds of new places.
— szczezuja: From my bubble about Bubble
About the Domain "Geminispace.org" — I have encountered a few complaints that the domain name of this site, Geminispace.org, is problematic because it can be somewhat ambiguous and misleading: it may be unclear whether one means just this capsule or Geminispace as a whole — a collection of Gemini capsules and the people who maintain them. One might react to this...
💬 skyjake [...] · 32 comments · 11 likes · 2023-05-27 · 8 months ago