Illusory latency due to trailing slash redirects

[Ben Harris]

On 6/27/20 3:54 PM, Terry Brennan wrote:
> Right! one issue with bombadillo, one with the "issues" page.
> 
> Bombadillo: I really like the look and feel of the browser, and 
> accessing a few sites (especially gemini.circumlunar.space) is very 
> quick. But most other gopher and gemini sites (eg: 
> bombadillo.colorfield.space) seem to be unreachable. I get a TCP 
> time-out after 5 seconds. This is tough, since my "broadband" connection 
> is pretty slow.
> 
> "Issues": you may have answered this already. Submitting an issue 
> requires registering. Registering requires three fields: a user name, an 
> email address, and a password. But when I give an email address, the 
> page tells me that I cannot use an email address (required field). Odd.

I'm the admin on tildegit.org. I just added a notice to the signup page 
about the allowed email domain list. Sorry for the inconvenience but it 
has curbed automated spam accounts entirely, which was taking a 
significant amount of my time.

Cheers,
~ben