Re: Hey folks
By: Bulifyf to All on Tue Oct 24 2023 08:35 pm

Welcome back to the past.
I too am from Canada, in the Vancouver area!

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Re: Hey folks
By: Neoshock to Bulifyf on Sat Nov 18 2023 08:58 pm

Re: Hey folks
By: Bulifyf to All on Tue Oct 24 2023 08:35 pm

Welcome back to the past.
I too am from Canada, in the Vancouver area!

sorry for your loss!
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Re: Re: Hey folks
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Boraxman on Thu Nov 16 2023 05:44 pm

I'm intrigued by Gemini and Gopher protocols, but I like plain old HTML. I'd

You can serve HTML pages over Gopher. You could build a gophersite on HTML only. People just prefers not to do it because gophr has better ways of arranging content-

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Re: Re: Hey folks
By: Nightfox to Boraxman on Wed Nov 15 2023 01:25 pm

The web is used by millions of people around the world every day (via a web browser or apps making REST calls & such via web erquests), so I'm not sure say it's such a failure.

Nightfox

It's used by many people yes, but it is a mess nonetheless. There seems to be a movement to use old Web 1 technology, go back to older federated systems instead of controlled bloated platforms.

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Re: Re: Hey folks
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Boraxman on Thu Nov 16 2023 05:44 pm

I'm intrigued by Gemini and Gopher protocols, but I like plain old HTML. I'd like to see a simple browser that works with basic HTML get some traction, myself. I think back to the blogs I hand-hacked back before blogger.

Kmeleon loads my tilde blog (https://tilde.club/~poindexter) in around 100 megabytes of RAM just fine, and to me, HTML is easier to hand-code than Gemi or Gopher.

...Have you ever asked a question you weren't supposed to ask?

I've played with both. Gemini is relatively new, but I find it a little too restrictive in terms of format. Geminispace is small and seems a little bit list a small community of people who's common interest is just Gemini and "smol" web.

The key is to
eschew bloat and show people the web can be fast, simple, friendly and fun again.

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Boraxman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

The key is to
eschew bloat and show people the web can be fast, simple, friendly and
fun again.

I'm rediscovering simple blogging. I'm running Blosxom on http://tilde.club/~poindexter and found there are a bunch of tools to
take plain text and make it into a somewhat pretty blog - even one
written completely in BASH!



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Re: Re: Hey folks
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Boraxman on Sun Nov 26 2023 09:05 pm

Boraxman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

The key is to
eschew bloat and show people the web can be fast, simple, friendly and fun again.

I'm rediscovering simple blogging. I'm running Blosxom on http://tilde.club/~poindexter and found there are a bunch of tools to
take plain text and make it into a somewhat pretty blog - even one
written completely in BASH!

i never liked blogs. most people were boring.
now most blogs are just advertisements thinly diguised as blogs.

it reminds me about when everyone was trying to do podcasts. most people
just arent interesting enough.
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Re: Re: Hey folks
By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Nov 28 2023 05:01 am

Re: Re: Hey folks
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Boraxman on Sun Nov 26 2023 09:05 pm

Boraxman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

The key is to
eschew bloat and show people the web can be fast, simple, friendly and fun again.

I'm rediscovering simple blogging. I'm running Blosxom on http://tilde.club/~poindexter and found there are a bunch of tools to

btw, i loaded it up.

are you aware that your color scheme is shit?
https://i.imgur.com/UXukgTU.png
why would you choose light gray text on white?
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Re: Re: Hey folks
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Boraxman on Sun Nov 26 2023 09:05 pm

I'm rediscovering simple blogging. I'm running Blosxom on http://tilde.club/~poindexter and found there are a bunch of tools to
take plain text and make it into a somewhat pretty blog - even one
written completely in BASH!

I've created a website, but decided against blogging. Blogging is fine when it is personal, but I've seen people who post articles as blog posts, which doesn't make sense. Articles and writing which aren't a log would be better served categorised, tagged and sorted.

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Re: Re: Hey folks
By: Boraxman to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Nov 28 2023 09:44 pm

I've created a website, but decided against blogging. Blogging is fine when > is personal, but I've seen people who post articles as blog posts, which
doesn't make sense. Articles and writing which aren't a log would be better > served categorised, tagged and sorted.

The blog format only works for news sites, opinion sites for current events, and project status sites (which are just speciallized news, if you ask me).

There are writers publishing fiction in blog form, but I think the format does not work well.

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Re: Re: Hey folks
By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Nov 28 2023 05:01 am

it reminds me about when everyone was trying to do podcasts. most people just arent interesting enough.

Hey now, I resemble that remark!
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Re: Re: Hey folks
By: Digital Man to MRO on Fri Dec 01 2023 12:20 pm

Re: Re: Hey folks
By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Nov 28 2023 05:01 am

it reminds me about when everyone was trying to do podcasts. most people just arent interesting enough.

Hey now, I resemble that remark!

It's harder than it looks. it's hard to be good on radio.
We have a radio pair here that is great at talking sports, great at all the online banter. When they interview a celebrity it is so horrible and cringe-worthy. They don't know what questions to ask. it's like 'what is your favorite color' type stuff.

they can get by coasting and sound like great friends with everyone at the station they talk with. it works for them.
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Re: Re: Hey folks
By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Nov 28 2023 05:01 am

i never liked blogs. most people were boring.
now most blogs are just advertisements thinly diguised as blogs.

it reminds me about when everyone was trying to do podcasts. most people just arent interesting enough.

I agree. There are very, very few blogs that I find are worth reading, and those are usually artiles posted as if they were blog posts, rather than actual blog posts.

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