Re: [ANN] GemiNaut ❤️ Gopher - a new release of GemiNaut 0.8.6

Very nice :)

James Mills / prologic

E: [email protected]
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au


On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 7:11 AM Luke Emmet <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> I hope this is the most sensible place to make gopher client
> announcements - please let me know if I should be posting elsewhere as
> well or instead.
>
> I'm pleased to announce a new release of GemiNaut 0.8.6, a particularly
> user friendly Gemini client for Windows (licensed as GPL3). Now
> supporting Gopher! I am aware this is a Debian list, but I can't seem to
> find a better place to announce it.
>
> For various reasons including a paucity of clients, there have perhaps
> not been so many Windows users exploring the gopher holes for many
> years. I've been discovering gopher space for myself in testing GemiNaut
> and whilst it is a slower medium than Gemini, there is quite a lot of
> thoughtful writing to discover. Needless to say gopher pages look really
> nice in GemiNaut which smooths over the visual gaps providing a common
> experience of gemini, gopher maps and text files.
>
> I'd like to put out a word of appreciation to the prologic folks for the
> go-gopher library, the latest version of which has formed the basis of
> the content retrieval functionality.
>
> Release notes on my gemini site
>
>
> gemini://
> gemini.marmaladefoo.com/blog/7-Jul-2020_GemiNaut_v0_8_6_release.gmi
>
> You can download binaries and source via the GemiNaut web page
>
>    https://www.marmaladefoo.com/pages/geminaut
>
> Feedback and improvement suggestions are welcomed. Is there any where
> else I should be announcing this to Gopher lovers or would-be users?
>
> Best Wishes
>
>   - Luke
>
>
>