GUS questions

[Natalie Pendragon]

Hi!

The source code for GUS is available here [1]. I wouldn't consider it
"batteries-included," so if you want to run it yourself it may be a
bit of an adventure! If you host an instance, note that we'll be
increasing the "crawl-load" on Geminispace non-trivially - this
actually motivated a commit this morning to add support for respecting
robots.txt's `crawl_delay` and also added a default per-domain 500ms
delay. Let's be kind with our crawls together :)

Paging is not implemented. I had been thinking about different ways to
implement it, but haven't really figured a solution I like yet. I
could just have it return all results I suppose, given the current
size of Geminispace, but I have slight misgivings about that approach
as well, since some queries can return hundreds of results. In the
meantime, I've simply left it unimplemented and hoped that the top ten
results would be sufficient for most usage.

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~natpen/gus

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 11:47:56PM +0000, colecmac at protonmail.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I just have some quick questions about GUS that I figured the whole list
> could benefit from.
>
> Is there source code available anywhere? I'd love to read it and learn,
> or even host my own instance.
>
> The other thing I'm wondering is how to get to other pages. When I search
> something, GUS mentions "Page 1 of X" at the bottom, but there doesn't seem
> to be any way to get to the other page.
>
> makeworld