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      1 Choosing a Phormat: pt 4 -- The Great Split
      2 -------------------------------------------
      3 Thu Nov 11 22:38:24 EST 2021
      4 
      5 Ok ok, hopefully this is the last post on this
      6 topic, I know it's been QUITE the series. As a
      7 refresher I went from:
      8 
      9 1. A single gophermap as a blog
     10 2. A single text file
     11 3. Analyzing the differences
     12 
     13 And now I'm here in part 4 to tell you that the
     14 future of this phlog is multiple files.
     15 
     16 Why?
     17 
     18 1. Linkability -- I want to be able to share an
     19    individual post!
     20 2. Syndication -- individual URI's enable an RSS
     21    feed
     22 3. Bandwidth-friendly -- of course my phlog.txt
     23    was NOWHERE near the JS bloat that is the
     24    modern web (and probably never will be), but
     25    small files are faster!
     26 
     27 So here we are!
     28 
     29 I briefly toyed with the thought of putting the
     30 titles in the URI, for example:
     31 
     32   gopher://alexkarle.com/phlog/008-choosing-a-phormat-pt-3.txt
     33 
     34 But, I ended up deciding that the title doesn't
     35 add too much value to end users. I kinda like the
     36 XKCD-like (or RFC-like) style of just using a
     37 number :)
     38 
     39   gopher://alexkarle.com/phlog/008.txt