SMALL WEB - GEMINI, GOPHER AND NEX

runv.club lives on the "small web": a lighter internet made of text, simple protocols, and pages that open without hurry. Besides the ordinary website (HTTP), your account publishes over three alternative protocols at the same time.

YOUR PUBLIC FOLDERS

Each account has, in its home, one folder per protocol. Anything you put in them is public; do not keep secrets there.

• public_html — your website (HTTP), seen in a normal browser;
• public_gemini — your Gemini capsule (.gmi files);
• public_gopher — your Gopher space (gophermap);
• public_nex — your Nex capsule (a plain-text index file).

THE NEX PROTOCOL

Nex is the most minimal protocol of the small web, born in Nightfall City. It runs on port 1900: the client sends one line (the path) and the server returns plain text, with no headers, no state, and no tracking. It is Gopher and Gemini taken to the essentials.

Links are lines that start with an arrow. For example:

=> /users/ other members
=> notes.txt my notes

HOW TO PUBLISH ON NEX

Your starting point is the index file in public_nex. Edit it and create whatever files you like.

• edit ~/public_nex/index (plain text; no HTML);
• link pages with lines like => path Name;
• create subfolders to organize (each folder can have its own index);
• keep 755 on folders and 644 on files, so the server can read them.

Your capsule address is nex://runv.club/users/YOUR_USERNAME/.

HOW TO BROWSE NEX

There are two easy ways to explore the house's Nex space:

• in the terminal, use the rex command (e.g. rex for the root, or rex /users/ for the member list);
• in a browser, open https://runv.club/nex/ (the same tree, converted to HTML).

THE RECENTES PAGE (BLOGS AND JOURNALS)

The page https://runv.club/recentes gathers, in one place, the most recent entries from members' blogs and journals. It is a discovery layer that complements the constellation on the home page: the constellation shows who exists; the Recentes page shows what is new. Joining is optional: only those who ask will appear.

HTML BLOG FORMAT

An "HTML Blog" is a simple HTML page, with no framework. It has a title and, per entry, a date and a link. The minimal structure of each entry is a time tag followed by a link:

<h1>My blog</h1>
<time datetime="2026-06-20">20 Jun 2026</time>
<a href="/posts/gemini.html">Discovering Gemini</a>

The date in datetime must use the year-month-day format (2026-06-20).

HTML JOURNAL FORMAT

An "HTML Journal" is a single page, with a title and a sequence of entries, each inside an article tag with a date heading:

<h1>My journal</h1>
<article><h2>2026-06-22</h2><p>Wrote on Nex today.</p></article>

HOW TO JOIN THE RECENTES PAGE

The process is simple and safe. Content the house reads is always treated as text (never executed), so there is no risk to other members.

• publish a page in the HTML Blog or HTML Journal format (for example under public_html);
• send the address to admin@runv.club asking to be added to the list;
• from then on, your recent entries will appear on Recentes.

PERMISSIONS

For any of these protocols, the permission rule is the same: 755 on your home and public folders, 644 on the files served. If something stops opening, start by restoring these values.