@mckinley@twtxt.net I shut it off. It became increasingly difficult to decide where to put which content. Does it go into the phlog, the weblog, just twtxt, Mastodon, something else, … ? I wanted to reduce the number of “channels” that I use. And Gopher is the hardest for people to access – not from a technical point of view, of course, but regular clients basically don’t support it anymore. Aside from a small “elite” group, nobody could access it (and I’d rather not have to point people to Gopher proxies all the time).
I’d rather focus on keeping my website compatible with older/retro clients. Not having a forced redirect to HTTPS and sticking to a simple layout is mostly enough.
Netscape 4.07 on WfW 3.11:
Netscape 2.02 on OS/2 Warp 4 (only 16 colors in QEMU at the moment):
(Those older clients tend to extend HTTP/1.0 a bit by sending a Host: header. Without that, my webserver wouldn’t be able to find the correct vhost.)
Really, having my exact same website accessible with those browsers feels more rewarding than having to resort to Gopher. 🤔