Sharing a Gemsite, with http

[fsr]

So either someone will notice this and appreciate some of the subtle ways I put love into something that we both know looks Very plain by design, or it will go quietly unnoticed by most people which is actually sort of win-win because normally, I don't advertise my projects.

It's not even going on my profile. But I know at least one or two other people interested in Gemini here, and this is a website (for the moment, and it should remain accessible as one) but it was going to be a Gemini site, and I still plan to make that happen. Just not first-thing now. (It should have been so simple).

The site is here: https://fsrhelp.envs.net/ And yes the copyright goes back a ways, the writing is all brand new though.

If you view the source (but only page source- selection source will give you html) you will see that it is actually written as gemtext, with a little html for unavoidable reasons.

The JS translates it to html on the fly, which is probably cringe for Some fans of gemtext but others Might love it. I've been railing against "bloat" since CD-R's became common and I get it, even if it seems like I've accepted it. If you would never use JS on your website, respect.

But, I didn't write it for the browser. I have experimented with wiki text both conventional and avant garde over the years, and I'm absolutely in love with gemtext. I went to the trouble of signing up with a host (I used to run a gopher site so I know it can be trivial to host my own gemsite) but gemlog.blue sadly no longer accepts registrations. If anyone wants to create something SUPER-COOL, anyway...

I wrote this for actual gemini, but then I found that the server was blocking mozz.us (not necessarily by domain, but all http proxies) and that's a terrible shame.

So, first priority was to host and serve gemtext over http. Yes, it's unorthodox. I doubt it's a scandal. Either way, when writing is complete, I can copy the files to the public_gemini folder and strip the html and change each line starting with => and ending in .html to end with .gmi and that's done then. But I can't be bothered to yet.

Also the entire site is a response to this post:

I want to be good with computers, whatever that means. not only in a software perspective [...] but also in hardware

When committing hundreds of paragraphs to a question, it's a given that the poster may not have the ambition necessary to take full advantage of the response.

This is purely out of love for the topic, it's extraordinarily opinionated and as such may contain literally a hundred things someone disagrees with but I'm still right ofc <- this is tongue in cheek, and I don't anticipate being fully appreciated in my own time. But you're welcome to prove me wrong.

Seriously though, if there's anything there that helps anyone, that's fantastic. From what I've seen from most people here, it's going to be review for most of you anyway. This is a pretty cool place, and people are just weird enough that I'm picking up a few new tricks.