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Summary: In order to detect which capsules and which pages have new material in them we've been experimenting a lot in Geminispace (gemini:// protocol) and today I show a prototype of a notifier of sorts

THE Geminispace expands (see charts and raw numbers), so it's not just some single capsule with a lot of users or a set of 50 known capsules (like it was a few years ago). There are now thousands of capsules and some of them send out a signal when new material is available in them (GemLog, page, page update etc.), so we could really use something that notifies of changes, not in a centralised fashion of course (that would defeat the purpose and repeat the mistakes of the World Wide Web).

"Capsules need to become more interconnected for Geminispace to thrive and for new capsules to remain online. Traffic is their lifeline."So on Sunday I had a go at it and made this prototype. Every 60 minutes it checks a number of aggregators and compares their contents to previous snapshots, in turn unfurling a bunch of new URIs. It's a bit like a notification system.

Our own capsule, which served over 28,000 pages on Sunday, is one of very many. Capsules need to become more interconnected for Geminispace to thrive and for new capsules to remain online. Traffic is their lifeline.

The video above demonstrates the prototype, informally...

Maybe at some stage we'll pipe this output into some program, but at the moment it's not reliable enough, as shown towards the end of the video (need some input sanitisation). ⬆