[HN Gopher] The Midnight Pub ___________________________________________________________________ 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-05-15 23:00 UTC)