Sunday, March 13th, 2022 Bongusta update, march 2022 =========================== It is with no doubt, that the phlogosphere is shrinking. This time the (ir)regular Bongusta maintenance was a real slaughter. 17 of the 75 aggregated phlogs didn't have any update in the 2021, were obviously abandoned (blank gophermap or note by the author, that the operation has been terminated) or even the hostname didn't exist anymore or didn't run any gopher server. This is the biggest decrease of counter in history of Bongusta. One of the removed phlogs, that I will miss most, is the SparcIPX[1]. Together with jstg and xmanmonk they were three of the eldest phlogs I remember read and two of the reasons why Bongusta was created. Then there is the Boris Schminke's phlog[2], which I always enjoyed to read and which wasn't updated since July 2021. There I can still hope... To end with a more positive tone let me welcome new Bongusta additions which helped slow down the decrease, so the counter now displays nice round number 64: * left_adjoint's phlog by clarissa [3] * rfmpie's phlog [4] * a phlog called "Screwtape proposes a toast" [5] * moj's diary [6] * ~cside phlog [7] * blootr's phlog [8] Welcome and I hope that you came here to stay! (Typed on a ThinkPad 390 with a 266MHz Pentium II and Windows 98.) Links: [1] gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/sparcipx/ [2] gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xmanmonk/ [3] gopher://rawtext.club:70/1/%7Eleft_adjoint/phlog/ [4] gopher://rawtext.club:70/1/%7Erfmpie/phlog/ [5] gopher://gopher.club:70/1/users/screwtape/ [6] gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/moj/logbook/ [7] gopher://gopher.club:70/1/users/cside/ [8] gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/blootr/phlog/