---------------------------------------- phlog listing updates April 11th, 2019 ---------------------------------------- It looks like tilde.town recently updated gophernicus, which is awesome. Many of the servers out there running gophernicus leave the bottom footer active for their users, which shows the current gophernicus version that's running. In my /etc/default/gophernicus I like to disable headers, footers and the status page hidden at /server-status with the -nt -nh -nf flags, like so: OPTIONS="-o UTF-8 -nt -nh -nf -T 7070" Part of my reasoning is aesthetic. I don't need to show extra crud on gopher. Part of my reason is security. Not knowing which server I'm running may make attacks on it more difficult. Not seeing IP addresses of users engaged with my system helps them stay anonymous (server-status related). And part of my reasoning is so I don't accidentally trip up aggregators. When you upgrade gophernicus and that version in the footer changes, every aggregator out there suddenly thinks you made an update to your phlog. This happens routinely on SDF and suddenly every SDF member tracked on my moku-pona [0] sorts to the top of the list. Today that happened for our tilde.town users. Is it a big deal? Oh definitely not. Am I recommending others running gophernicus use those switches? It's totally up to them and I won't harp on the issue. I just want people to be aware that it's a thing. I suspect many would choose to add the flags if they knew about the situation, but I won't hold it against you if you disagree, or simply don't care. Gopher is whatever the hell you want to make it. (DIR) Phlog Roll - - - - - - - - - Speaking of gopher being whatever the hell you want to make it, I was surprised to see Ze Libertine Gamer post recently that he may be deleting his phlog [1]. That's a real shock, to be honest. He's got some great content that goes back years. I wonder what sort of things might lead someone to deleting a phlog but not the entire gopher hole and I'm at a loss. I won't speculate here, but I will say to ZLG, I really hope you keep it around, even if you don't update very often. You've got some useful information you've shared and have been a big part of the community. I'd certainly miss your contributions. (TXT) ZLG - 2019-04-10 - - - - - - - - - To zcrayfish: I agree. WebP does indeed suck. [2] Stop trying to make "fetch" a thing, Google. Their sleasy method of inserting "switch to modern image formats" into website performance checkers is dirty and unwelcome. I don't like blackhat UI and I don't appreciate their "disruptions". (DIR) zcrayfish - WebP Sucks - - - - - - - - - Thanks to all of you who answered my silly three questions. I got a lot of great movies to add to the playlist and I've been jamming to your songs all week. Keep gopherin' everyone!