I just read this advice in geminispace.info: "geminispace.info search engine will shut down on 1st June 2024". Does it refer to a maintenance shut down or it's about the end of the site?

Posted in: s/Geminispace

☯️ leoperbo

May 07 · 12 days ago · 👍 Geer3The, chirale

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🚀 Geer3The · May 07 at 22:10:

Thanks for asking. I am wondering the same thing.

🍀 gritty · May 07 at 23:04:

according to a mastodon post, the author isn't renewing the vps. they're out.

☯️ leoperbo [OP] · May 07 at 23:35:

It will be a great lost in Geminispace. Thanks for the reply.

🐙 norayr · May 08 at 00:55:

oh. will the author publish the tools so that we could repeat the work?

the only other search i found is

— auragem.letz.dev/search/s

🍀 gritty · May 08 at 03:28:

I use Kennedy

— Kennedy search

🍀 gritty · May 08 at 03:29:

also there's a repo. Link is over on the station post regarding the same.

🕹️ skyjake [...] · May 08 at 03:55:

— The mentioned post

— Source repository

🍵 michaelnordmeyer [mod] · May 08 at 07:45:

I wonder why he didn't update the Geminispace.info news page, to which I have subscribed in Lagrange. I only noticed it because I also subscribe to the #GeminiProtocol tag on Mastodon.

🧇 Acidus · May 10 at 15:53:

I've been at RSA this week, so only getting to comment now. I'm thankful to Rene for running this as long as they did, and to Natalie Pendragon who is the original author of GUS, which Geminispace.info was derived from.

I have the resources to keep Kennedy and my other services indefinitely, so those aren't going anywhere. Thanks to some gentle poking from @michaelnordmeyer I'll add some better automation to it soon.

If you want to read about GUS and Geminispace.info, as well as the early search engines of Gemini, the mailing list has a lot of good content:

— gemi.dev/gemini-mailing-list/