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OK I have a tentative gopher server up at gopher://squirrel.bleeve.me:70

#gopher

I'll stick with this for a while, but I'm not sure I'm ready to give up the ability to display images, or see PDFs. Those are just too valuable.

And it hangs, handing off to the h... URL: handler. The lynx client locks up.

I can't seem to get the server to serve from any root except /var/gopher, which means I'm editing sudo'd, which is gross, and I'm tolerating it only because I'm testing (and assume I'm making some stupid config misteak).

But the experiment has me rethinking presentation of content. I'm now writing simple, compliant HTML5, and doing pulldown menus in css. I'm using basic tables, lists, and some wrap around images. I may simplify this further. I could ditch the menus going forward.

But I don't think I give up inline images. They're just too meaningful.