Corrections

Authors: Ben <benk@tilde.team>

Dated: 2020-12-14

Since my last gemcast was partly intended to be a correction to the one before it, I realized (again) too late that there were some things I should have said, either because I forgot to say them or said them wrong:

First, regarding tilde.chat's XMPP bridge (Biboumi), though the IRC net is tilde.chat, I failed to notice that the the domain of the bridge is actually something different, so the MUC address is actually #gemini@biboumi.tilde.team (and I'm certain I said "tilde.chat").

I love this because I'm an XMPP enthusiast and am not too bothered with IRC much anymore. This compromise works for me since most of the users are on IRC. I have also met other people who use XMPP but not IRC, so this is one good way to get more people to participate in the Gemini community.

The second thing is that I at one point opined about how graphical browsers seem not to offer any facility for systematically walking through Gemini content, in the sense of being able to browse through lists of links without getting lost. As I mentioned, Diohsc has its functions and queue, Amfora keeps links marked in history so you can go back and tab forward.

Obviously, which should have occurred to me sooner because I do this every day on Chrome and Firefox, is that browser tabs are basically the tool you're given to accomplish this. So, if you're looking at a list of links and want to read, say, the first ten or twenty, you ctrl+click the entire sequence which gives you a queue of tabs you can run through, closing each when done. This generally also allows for sub-branching.

I tried it on Lagrange, and tabs do indeed solve the problem. Although I must say, having a bunch of tabs open seems like an inelegant solution to a problem that could be better addressed by one of the other methods.