sites/randogoth.com/content/pages/connect.md
randogoth 9817e7190c feat: make the capsule subscribable over Gemini
Link labels in every capsule index are now ISO 8601 and lead with the date,
which is what Gemini's subscription convention reads a feed entry from: the
first ten characters of a label must parse as YYYY-MM-DD or the line is
ignored. The board's `09 Oct 26` parsed as nothing, so the front page, the
archive and all six areas registered zero entries and the capsule was
invisible to every aggregator in Geminispace. `/archive` now carries 36.

The Connect page advertised `/feeds/all.rss.xml` and `/feeds/all.atom.xml`,
which exist only in the HTML build and 404 over Gemini. That paragraph now
sits behind an itsybitsy `only html` format gate, with prose outside it that
is true on both faces. The gate can only cut that way round: Pelican does not
implement the directive and renders it as an inert comment, so a gate
subtracts from the capsule and never from the site.

Also adds dormant `SMOLNET_COMMENTS` support, for a per-article thread link
gated to the text formats. Off until kapara is deployed, since setting it
would put a dead link under every article.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 17:19:50 +03:00

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Title: Connect Slug: connect

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This site has RSS and Atom, and so does every area.

Over Gemini there is no XML and none is needed: every listing is ISO dated, so a client can subscribe to the main menu, the archive or a single area as it stands. Readers are better than algorithms.