I started a service which aims to make starting a gopherhole easier.

I host the gopherhole for you–just provide a git URI and my service will clone it and turn it into a subdirectory of gopher://gopher.someodd.zip/1/hosted/. This service has support/expects the bore format (my phlog/gopherhole builder [think Jekyll, but for gopherspace]).

Currently only tested with GitHub repos.

To sign up you can contact me. Please look at the hosted selector for more info.

Background

I wanted to exemplify the ease by which you can create “addons” for Venusia, my Gopher Protocol server daemon.

These “addons” are just gateways to scripts. I mapped a Gopher selector to a script repobore.sh.

This script is rather, admittedly, half-baked, and thus I expect iteration when user(s) demand it. Currently as of writing only one person uses this service and I haven’t heard complaints yet.

Original content in gopherspace: gopher://gopher.someodd.zip:70/0/phlog/my-gopher-via-git-clone-service.gopher.txt