Monday, January 29th, 2018

	On current Bongusta! status
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bongusta! is now  aggregating 28 phlogs and if I didn't have to remove
two non-functional  (C.M.Hobbs and Simple Machines,  I'll miss both of
them), there would be thirty of them. That's a huge number compared to
what I was used to  few  years ago,  I hope it  will stay so,  or even
improve.

I'd like to say hello to newcomers - Alex Schroeder[1] with his huuuge
gophermap and  kvothe[2] with  fresh new  phlog. I hope both will stay
active for long time and bring another  perspective to our  text-based
universe.

The other thing I'd like to announce is that Bongusta! will go through
some  code changes. As there is  no standard way  how to  tell whether
phlog has changed  or not  (and I would vote against  bringing Atom or
any other XML-based bloat from www  to gopher), I do simple  gophermap
checksums. Unfortunately that means false positive every time SDF goes
through Gophernicus or NetBSD upgrade. These need to be eliminated.

But every change to working  mechanism can bring errors, so If you see
anything weird  on Bongusta!  in following days/weeks, drop me a line,
I will investigate.

[1] gopher://alexschroeder.ch
[2] gopher://sdf.org/1/users/kvothe/