## State Of Gopher

Gopher Gophering Gophers – More Than Ever!

by Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>

## Gopher Stats (0/2)

Eomyidae stats at 2019-08-01:

	924 known gopher servers.

Applaus! Bravissimo!

## Gopher Stats (1/2)

                          Gopher # Servers over Time

    1000 +----------------------------------------------------------+
         |    +    +    +    +    +     +    +    +    +    +    +  |
     900 |-+                                 gopher servers *******-|
         |                                                          |
     800 |-+                                                      +-|
         |                                                          |
     700 |-+                                                      +-|
         |                                                          |
     600 |-+                                                      +-|
         |                                                          |
         |                                                          |
     500 |-+                                                      +-|
         |                                                          |
     400 |-+                                                      +-|
         |                                                          |
     300 |-+                                                      **|
         |                                                      **  |
     200 |-+                                                  **  +-|
         |    +    +  ****************************************   +  |
     100 +----------------------------------------------------------+
       2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012  2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
                                  Time

## Gopher Stats (2/2)

Conclusion:

* We are growing!
* Interest in Gopher is growing!
* Next year we need 4k tty layout to display graph details!

Everyone thanks for providing gopher servers and spreading the word!

## Gopher Activity

* At least three active IRC channels with various types of community.
	* #gopherproject on Freenode
	* #gopher on SDF
	* #gopher on Tilde

* The Tildeverses are growing steadily.
	* Retro communities of various topics.

* The Phlogosphere is growing.
	* See Moku-Pona for an aggregator.

	gopher://gopher.black/1/moku-pona

## Tildeverse

* tildeverse.org

    | we're a loose association of like-minded tilde communities. if you're
    | interested in learning about *nix (linux, unix, bsd, etc) come check out our
    | member tildes and sign up!

* yourtilde.com
* tilde.black
* tilde.center
* tilde.chat
* tilde.institute
* tilde.land
* tilde.news
* tilde.pink
* tilde.team
* tilde.tel

## Pleroma

Federal social networking server for many protocols, like mastodon and gnu
social.

Someone built a gateway for gopher:

	gopher://pleroma.zachcampau.com:7070/1/main/all

You can waste many hours here reading all of the federated postings.

## Gopher Outlook (0/1)

Where I would like to see Gopher:

* Keep the old and the new.
	* Do not forget our history.

* Make eomyidae something useful for everyone.
	* See the talk.

* Make gopherproject.org more useful for beginners.

* Convert or get websites to move to gopher.
	* Any social group for this?

## Gopher Outlook (1/1)

* Keep the tildeverses growing and there the idea of gopher alive.

* Always try to make your ideas come true on gopherspace.
	* There are weather stations.
	* There are newspapers on gopher.
	* There are all kind of alternative news sources on gopher.
	* ...
	* What will you create?

* Move what you still on the web to gopher or some other simple protocol.
	* Some SSH service?
	* E-Mail instead of a website?

* Keep us all having fun while doing so! It is our hobby!

## Gopher Lawn (0/1)

Get off my lawn! #lawnmower – see annna talk.

* No, please stay. :)

	gopher://bitreich.org/1/lawn

* Central curated index of where to go in gopherspace.

    | 160 links are indexed at the moment.

* Now with search:

	gopher://bitreich.org/7/lawn/search.dcgi

## Gopher Lawn (1/1)

* Practical Usage:

	20:26:14       __20h__ | annna, I'm bored.
	20:26:14         annna | OpenBSD manpages - gopher://perso.pw/1/

* Or here:

	gopher://bitreich.org/1/lawn/bored.dcgi

Everyone please contribute links you have found.

	gopher://bitreich.org/1/scm/gopher-lawn

* Linked to from gopherproject.org.

## Gopher Tutorials

	gopher://bitreich.org/1/tutorials

* Project to write simple texts about gopher.
	* Tutorials on clients
	* Tutorials on servers
	* How to join the community
	* Technical background of gopher
	* History
	* and more ...
* Still in alpha stage.
* Everyone can easily contribute using git.

* Should be linked to from gopherproject.org.

## Questions, Ideas

Have you liked the last year on gopher?

What keeps you from using gopher for daily usage?

Do you have other questions, ideas?

If not now, open them up on IRC.

## Thanks

Thank you for listening!

If you have further comments, contact me at

	20h@r-36.net

or via IRC as __20h__ on #gopherproject on freenode.