Choosing a Phormat: pt 4 -- The Great Split ------------------------------------------- Thu Nov 11 22:38:24 EST 2021 Ok ok, hopefully this is the last post on this topic, I know it's been QUITE the series. As a refresher I went from: 1. A single gophermap as a blog 2. A single text file 3. Analyzing the differences And now I'm here in part 4 to tell you that the future of this phlog is multiple files. Why? 1. Linkability -- I want to be able to share an individual post! 2. Syndication -- individual URI's enable an RSS feed 3. Bandwidth-friendly -- of course my phlog.txt was NOWHERE near the JS bloat that is the modern web (and probably never will be), but small files are faster! So here we are! I briefly toyed with the thought of putting the titles in the URI, for example: gopher://alexkarle.com/phlog/008-choosing-a-phormat-pt-3.txt But, I ended up deciding that the title doesn't add too much value to end users. I kinda like the XKCD-like (or RFC-like) style of just using a number :) gopher://alexkarle.com/phlog/008.txt