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Unnamed Gopher Client
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A modern [Gopher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)) client for the twenty-twenties.
A modern [Gopher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)) desktop client for the twenty-twenties. [Help me name it!](#help-me-name-this-app)

[Help me name this app!](#help-me-name-this-app)
Written in Electron, TypeScript, and React.

[<img src="https://i.imgur.com/qQ96FtZ.png">](https://imgur.com/a/miOTyl7)

[More screenshots here](https://imgur.com/a/miOTyl7)


Project Goals
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The goal of this project is to create a client that helps people approach the Gopher community, and entices them to _stay for the ride_:
The goal of this project is to create a client that attracts people to the Gopher community, and entices them to _stay for the ride_:

- [ ] Suggest the most active Gopher communities to get started
- [x] Suggest the most active Gopher communities to get started
- [x] Make it easy to search the Gopherspace and start exploring
- [ ] Aggregate phlogs into feeds to help following creators and giving them a bigger audience
- [ ] Figure out a way to let users interact with creators
- [ ] Make it easy to search the Gopherspace and start exploring
- [ ] Show media inline, if desired
- [ ] Curate the best and most active Gopherholes
- [ ] Figure out a way to let users interact with creators, or show them support, without changing the Gopher experience
- [ ] Show engaging media inline, if desired

It aims to provide features that are _unique_ to the Gopher experience:

- [ ] View pages as folders and files
- [x] Multi-column drill-down navigation like Finder
- [x] View pages as folders and files
- [ ] Inline and tree navigation like Explorer
- [ ] Multi-column drill-down navigation like Finder
- [ ] Keyboard and number-based navigation

And of course, all of the features that we have come to expect:

- [ ] Tabs
- [ ] Browsing history
- [ ] Bookmarks and recently-visited
- [ ] Downloads
- [ ] Aggressive caching
- [ ] Combined search and address bar
- [ ] A welcome and start page
- [ ] Deep link support
- [x] Tabs
- [x] Browsing history
- [x] Recently visited pages
- [x] Aggressive caching
- [x] Downloads
- [x] Combined search and address bar
- [x] A welcome and start page
- [ ] User bookmarks
- [ ] Theming & Dark Mode
- [ ] Deep link support (for all platforms)
- [ ] Full drag and drop capabilities
- [ ] Extensions for new Gopher types and Rendering modes
- [ ] Security via TLS


Help me name this app
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Challenge yourself to crack the hardest problem known to man: naming things!
Challenge yourself to crack the hardest problem known to mankind: naming things!

Help me find a short, memorable, and ideally cute or clever name for this project, and be forever immortalized through history!
Help me find a short, memorable, and ideally cute or clever name for this project, and be forever immortalized through history.


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