# So Flounder doesn't generate directory listings via gemini and I emailed Alex
This site ("capsule"), with a custom domain g.mikf.pl, is hosted on Flounder as
mkf.flounder.online.
=> //flounder.online
I am having a web wiki of mine at https://wiki1.mikf.pl, and I wanted to have something similar at g.mikf.pl/w on Gemini. And I decided that I want the directory listings and descriptive filenames to do all the job of index pages this time — so I made the folders not have an index.gmi file.
=> 2021-08-05.gmi see yesterday's gemlog about that
=> /w
All looked fine while i was only looking at things via https proxying. But when I took to a Gemini browser, it turned out that for folders without index.gmi a Not Found error is returned instead of the directory listing. (that does not apply to the /gemlog folder as it has a special listing behavior to it)
That was confirmed in Kristall on desktop and Ariane and deedum on Android by me, and on Lagrange by a friend of mine.
The directory listings weren't just an undocumented behavior that happened to occur in the proxy, but they are actually mentioned in the Flounder's admin./ Tips and Tricks in the section "Use folders":
=> //admin.flounder.online/tips_and_tricks.gmi
> Folders will list all the files contained within them, or redirect to an "index.gmi" file, if it exists.
I then decided to drop alex@alexwennerberg.com an email as he says to do at the bottom of admin.flounder.online, so today at 7:55 AM CEST I wrote to him:
> Subject: Flounder: No directory listings via Gemini
> Hello Alex,
> I have noticed that directory listings on Flounder are only shown via https proxying and not via Gemini (a Not Found error occurs).
> That seems against Tips And Tricks "Use directories" and thus a bug.
> Example:
=> https://mkf.flounder.online/w
=> gemini://mkf.flounder.online/w
> Custom domain:
=> https://g.mikf.pl/w
=> gemini://g.mikf.pl/w
> Thanks for Flounder,
> Mika Feiler

I will now thus probably keep the /w/ Gemini-non-functional, due to having provided it as an example and hoping for a fix maybe.
Update: 12:10 CEST (3:10 AM UTC-7) I got a reply from Alex:
> Hi mika! Glad you’re enjoying flounder. This is an open bug that is being tracked in the bug tracker, i just havent gotten around to fixing it »
> All the best,
> Alex
I found the issue he referred to:
=> https://github.com/alexwennerberg/flounder/issues/32
The bug remains unfixed for five months now (the issue is dated March 10th), so I will probably just take to generate my own indexes probably.
Since Flounder is written in Go, maybe I will end up contributing myself? though? Am I able enough?

P.S. Turns out Gemtext has line quotes! This post previously extensively and cumbersomely used « » (for each paragraph of an email)