[HN Gopher] The Midnight Pub
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       The Midnight Pub
        
       Author : ms123
       Score  : 98 points
       Date   : 2021-05-15 09:59 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (midnight.pub)
 (TXT) w3m dump (midnight.pub)
        
       | blondin wrote:
       | this is an amazing concept imo.
       | 
       | this virtual city they created made me feel very nostalgic about
       | the early days of the web.
        
         | ta_ca wrote:
         | there is also [0] which you can also view using a gemini client
         | 
         | [0] https://cosmic.voyage/
        
         | 0xbadcafebee wrote:
         | Very neat. ("The Midnight Pub resides in A Small Alley on Main
         | Street in Nightfall City: https://main-
         | street.nightfall.city/small-alley/")
        
       | every wrote:
       | This reminds me of a USENET newsgroup (can't remember the name)
       | that I frequented decades ago. It was a bar/pub/dive of some
       | sort. Patrons adopted an appropriate personae and sat around
       | musing over their adult beverage of choice about the world.
       | Everything old is new again...
        
         | RGamma wrote:
         | As it should!
        
       | throwawayboise wrote:
       | I visited this site last year and it had a completely different
       | look and feel. I almost thought maybe some CSS or JS wasn't
       | loading and I was seeing an unenhanced version, but it's been
       | rebuilt on a new platform. Had not really heard about gemini
       | before....
        
       | empressplay wrote:
       | I really miss the mid-1990s when I used to browse the web via a
       | Lynx client on the local Freenet using my $20 turbo XT. Much
       | simpler times!
        
       | unixhero wrote:
       | Loved it
       | 
       | For instance posts by "torpor"
        
       | mattowen_uk wrote:
       | I am honestly surprised at the lack of abuse this service is
       | getting, as a recent post to HN about a similar service offered
       | an email-to-post service, was stuffed full of spam posts.
       | 
       | I love the URL-as-a-real-place concept too, makes me think back
       | to old Geocities URLs.
        
         | gregjw wrote:
         | I assume the posts are manually vetted.
         | 
         | Don't jinx them haha!
        
       | tux3 wrote:
       | Aw, I spent a bit of time composing a reply and got a Forbidden
       | page.
       | 
       | Feature request: Hide the reply box if I should not be able to
       | reply =)
        
       | NhanH wrote:
       | This is using Gemini as the primary protocol, in case anyone
       | missed it: https://midnight.pub/manual
        
         | darekkay wrote:
         | > Just head over to your account page, and click the "Theme"
         | link. Feel free to inject any CSS you'd like in there.
         | 
         | This reminds me of the MySpace era :)
        
       | gregjw wrote:
       | This is neat.
        
         | dopidopHN wrote:
         | There is a whole small internet build on Gemini.
         | 
         | I host a site for free with a random French at "unbon.cafe", I
         | sent him a ssh key and now I can push file in folder; that it.
         | I have a Gemini site up and running.
         | 
         | The whole thing is manual , Simple and quaint.
        
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