Tomasino  moved  his  gopher  hole  away  from  SDF  [0],  it's  now
self-hosted on a RPi. He cites the recent stealth changes to SDF's
gopher implementation as his main reason for moving.

I, too  have reservations  about hosting  anything important  at SDF
(for  me  that would  be  something  like  a consulting  website  or
email). It's not  that I think SDF will disappear  suddenly one day,
but  more  that   the  infrastructure  is  subject   to  sudden  and
(seemingly) arbitrary change. It's the same reason I have run my own
mail server  for many  years. At  times SDF seems  like a  black box
whose  inner workings  are  a secret,  and  sometimes things  change
enough to  break the user's email/website/gopher/whatever.   In this
case, moving gopher.club to Bucktooth  broke any phlog that used the
gophernicus-specific gophermap  extension that  allows you  to embed
scripts. It  most likely also  broke all user CGIs,  since Bucktooth
does not support the  CGI standard QUERY_STRING environment variable
(something I ran into working on slerm).

In any  case, I think smj  should be more open  and solicit feedback
about ideas he has for major  changes before he implements them. The
recent bboard post and poll  about possibly switching the cluster to
maildir is a good example, let's see more of that, please!

Also I think  he should be more open to  accepting help from others,
many long-time MetaARPA users (myself  included) are happy to update
tutorials if  we know the specifics  of a change ahead  of time. And
ARPA members have the right to vote,  but I haven't seem too many of
these votes in my 10 years here.

A quick  note to jynx  on his phost regarding  gopher sites [1]  - I
have a list  of gopher phlogs/sites I  like to peruse [2],  I have a
few there not on  your list (and you have a few I  need to add to my
list).

[0] gopher://gopher.black/1/phlog/20180310-black
[1] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/jynx/dat/20180311.post
[2] gopher://sdf.org/1/users/slugmax/gopher_reading_room