this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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Welcome to the gopher renaissance
Some useful gopher services:
- Wikipedia front-end
gopher://gopherpedia.com - Reddit front-end
gopher://gopherddit.com
Discover new places:
gopher://i-logout.cz/1/bongustagopher://gopher.black/1/moku-ponagopher://gopher.clubgopher://tildeverse.org
Web proxies:
- https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite?=sdf.org+70+31
- https://gopher.tildeverse.org/tildeverse.org
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I bought an 1802 kit from TMSI and it could have been done over Gopher. Out-of-band payment and I had to fill out and send an order form. It went really well and I'd definitely do it again. An experiment in this space could be low-stakes; stickers or something. If Gopher is best thought of as an improvement on FTP, Gopher commerce is an improvement on sending an SASE with a dollar bill. I'd try it.
Yes, 100%.
One of the challenges will be getting order information from the buyer to the seller in a way that is consistent and error-free. Item numbers, unit prices, shipping, tax, total due. Without a shopping cart application, sellers might be best served by bundling shipping and tax into the item price. Alternatively, gopher commerce could make use of a purchase order/invoice pattern. That's a bit more work for everyone, but should reduce miscommunication.