I received a bunch of emails about 'coming on kinda strong and hurtfully'. I sincerely apologize if I hurt anyone's feelings - that was certainly not my intent. Just to be clear - my apology is for the WTF's and the tone, as I think there is nothing wrong with pointing out that the purpose of a project is not obvious and the implementation is finicky.
Had there been a simple blurb saying 'this project will help you read gemlogs on a reader', I would say 'Great. I am not the target audience here and have nothing to add'. With a name like AntennaZINE I was really expecting a curated Gemini publication of some sort, and was disappointed and exhasperated.
Having reread the post (appended in full below, including the P.S. appended after someone explained that they like to read gemlogs on their book readers), it still looks not entirely unreasonable in questioning what it was for, how it handled links, and why I (stack) couldn't do anything useful with it.
Anyway, this has turned into a half-assed apology, and I need to reiterate that I felt terrible opening these emails that point out that my behaviour is hurtful. (My response got bounced, hence this post). I will try much harder to tone it down.
Keep up the great work, everyone, and don't be dismayed by the criticism of fools such as old stack.
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I was excited to see that a new 'publication' sprung up on Gemini. I really like smolzine. And I love Antenna.
So when I couldn't open it, I was somewhat dismayed. It is not in a format any gemini browser recognizes. So days passed until I bothered to open it as an epub, and awful html book format which is just as bad as the main web (it allows publishers to stick in tracking bugs, and hide all kinds of nonsense in general layers of CSS and javascript). Yech.
What's in it? It's like a handful of gemini links from Antenna, from a few days back, packed as an ebook for some reason. There are links to other gemini content, but my epub browser just gives up. WTF.
w2 had even less in it than w1.
What exactly is this for? Am I missing something?
I don't like putting down someone's effort, but I just don't get it. There must be a purpose, but it really needs some work.
P.S. While I get that someone may want to for some reason read gemlogs on their bookreader, it kind of defeats the purpose of interactive content and linkage. There is a healthy discussion of tools that work offline, but this doesn't help.