Alex Schroeder

https://alexschroeder.ch/view/blocked

> What if you’re blocked from my sites?

> Or more likely: What if you’ve heard somebody say they’ve been blocked from my sites? If you’ve been blocked, you can’t read this, obviously.

> Here’s what you can tell them:

> “I’m sorry this is happening to you. Your ISP is probably renting out bandwidth and computing power to web scrapers with distributed IP addresses so I have no other option but block all their networks. A regular ban lasts for 1h. Repeated offenders are banned for a week. If the web scraping continues, so does the banning. You are probably an innocent victim of this arms race. If you have a static IP address, contact me and I can add you to an allow list.”

> For a longer explanation, see 2025-07-19 The current setup defending my sites.

So many people make websites that basically look like they are from the 90's (though without all the animated GIFs haha), and use basic features without any strictly-modern stuff. These are just a few off the top of my head:

https://cblgh.org/

https://technomancy.us/list

https://alexschroeder.ch/

http://100r.co/site/about_us.html

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/

https://rgz.ee/

https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/

https://codevoid.de/

https://www.undeadly.org

https://compudanzas.net/

http://altexxanet.org/

http://sdf.org/

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

For Emacs users elpher.el is a good option. There are also some additional packages to help with authoring .gmi files either locally or over Titan.

https://thelambdalab.xyz/elpher/

https://git.carcosa.net/jmcbray/gemini.el

https://alexschroeder.ch/cgit/gemini-write/tree/README.md

You can find these in MELPA too.