2018-02-28
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I thought I would need some type of automation when posting on
gopher. So far it turns out that opening an editor and just type
the post, add the link to the index page is just too simple to beat.
I actually check in the files into git to have it transferable
to/from the server more easily but that's it.

This makes me think about the need for all the blogging frameworks
on the WWW. I guess the forced text-only style with almost and next
to none markup does lower the bar to just create content.  All the
nice things like tag clouds and CSS and fonts and whatnow  are
really just adding noise. Noise in producing content, noise in
transferring content and noise in consuming content.  With gopher
people still create formatting that's pleasing within the limit of
the medium and a client may still render the text in a beautiful
font but that's not for me to decide.

Gopher hands the responsibility of formatting back to the client,
the author just makes a suggestion. And since there is no standard
to rely on people don't rely on layout and fancy formatting.

It feels like the 80ies all over again.

But I like it that way.