[ANN] gemini-textboard.fgaz.me: a simple textboard

I'm pleased to announce what I believe is the first forum mediated by
the Gemini protocol!

gemini://gemini-textboard.fgaz.me/

It's fairly basic for now: you can create new threads and replies, and
threads are ordered by last activity. For now all posts are kept
forever, but I plan to add automatic deletion of old threads, as is
tradition.

Feel free to use it to talk about whatever!

The server is written in Haskell, and this textboard is actually a
proof of concept for a series of libraries I'm about to release that
will make it easy to write dynamic Gemini sites. You could call it a
lightweight "Gemini framework"[1].

The board and libraries' source code is not public yet. I plan to
announce them in the coming weeks once I finish polishing some stuff.

[1]: Is this an heresy? :)

Bombadillo says the cert is expired. It seems a lot of people are
using clients that don't check TLS...

Anyway this seems like a cool idea, although geddit.pitr.ca was the
first textboard I believe. It only works on links though, so this seems
like a great addition.

makeworld

??????? Original Message ???????
On Friday, June 12, 2020 4:07 PM, Francesco Gazzetta <fgaz at fgaz.me> wrote:

> I'm pleased to announce what I believe is the first forum mediated by
> the Gemini protocol!
>
> gemini://gemini-textboard.fgaz.me/
>
> It's fairly basic for now: you can create new threads and replies, and
> threads are ordered by last activity. For now all posts are kept
> forever, but I plan to add automatic deletion of old threads, as is
> tradition.
>
> Feel free to use it to talk about whatever!
>
> The server is written in Haskell, and this textboard is actually a
> proof of concept for a series of libraries I'm about to release that
> will make it easy to write dynamic Gemini sites. You could call it a
> lightweight "Gemini framework"[1].
>
> The board and libraries' source code is not public yet. I plan to
> announce them in the coming weeks once I finish polishing some stuff.
>
> [1]: Is this an heresy? :)

On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 20:49:00 +0000
colecmac at protonmail.com wrote:

> Bombadillo says the cert is expired. It seems a lot of people are
> using clients that don't check TLS...

Oh wait really? I thought I didn't set an expiration date. I'll check.

> Anyway this seems like a cool idea, although geddit.pitr.ca was the
> first textboard I believe. It only works on links though, so this
> seems like a great addition.

Aha, I suspected there was something similar already, but couldn't find
any with GUS. I just posted a link to the textboard there too :)

I also just saw your comment system. I was thinking about doing
something like that next but I see you got it covered!

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 11:42:43PM +0200, Francesco Gazzetta wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 20:49:00 +0000
> colecmac at protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Bombadillo says the cert is expired. It seems a lot of people are
> > using clients that don't check TLS...
> 
> Oh wait really? I thought I didn't set an expiration date. I'll check.

Just confirming, AV-98 complains:

AV-98> go gemini-textboard.fgaz.me
ERROR: ('Certificate expired as of: 2020-06-11 13:57:35)!',)

Cheers,
Solderpunk

Okay, I just generated a new one which should be valid for a couple
hundred years I think. Thanks for bringing up the issue