Lightweight subscription to Gemini pages

[Adnan Maolood]

On Sun Nov 22, 2020 at 3:54 PM EST, Alex // nytpu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a minor suggestion to make when parsing the feed title from
> headers.
>
> I use ASCII art as headers for all my sites, with alt text with a
> plaintext header. If you tried to use a feed reader on my gemlog
> (gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/) it would consider the title to be
> “2020”
> rather than the “yet another tech gemlog” indicated by the alt text
> in
> my header. I suggest that a reader should get the title from *either*
> the first header on the page, or the first preformatted text line. For
> example, with regex you could search for "^[`#]+\s*(.*)$" (with the
> capture group being the title).
>
> A minor change, but I know there's a few other pages I've seen around
> that also use a header in the same way, so I'd think it'd be helpful.

I would recommend putting an actual header along with the preformatted
text. That would make it clear what the intention is.