February 9, 2026
Terminally online, gloriously offline
Offpunk 3.0
Offpunk 3.0: The offline web app fans love—and fear
TLDR: Offpunk 3.0, a minimalist browser that saves pages for offline reading, is now a community-built release. Commenters split between trust jitters over code review, jokes about Google Gemini overshadowing the Gemini protocol, and demands for more flexibility—while fans explain the offline magic in plain terms.
A tiny, text-first web browser called Offpunk 3.0 just dropped, and the community reaction is pure internet theater. The dev proudly said this is the first release with code he didn’t check line by line—and one commenter immediately clutched pearls: “true dread” at the idea of unreviewed code! Others jumped in to note it means trusted collaborators, not chaos, and cheered the project’s new cooperative vibe. The app itself? It saves pages so you can read them offline, even shows XKCD comics in your terminal, and now pulls the good stuff from cluttered pages using rules from the FiveFilters project. It’s also translatable, social (you can “share” or “reply” by email), and can borrow cookies from your normal browser to read subscriber sites. But the comments stole the show: a hilariously meta rant that you can’t search for the retro Gemini protocol anymore because of Google Gemini had everyone nodding. A power user demanded a switchable image tool—“hardcoding is bad”—while another begged for an Emacs-style all-in-one inbox. And when a confused reader asked how “offline” works, fans broke it down: Offpunk caches everything so your future self can read in peace. Try it at offpunk.net and pick a side: fearless minimalists or cautious worriers.
Key Points
- •Offpunk 3.0 has been released as an offline-first command-line browser for the Web, Gemini, and Gopher.
- •The project’s development broadened into a cooperative effort, with notable contributions in content extraction and translation infrastructure.
- •Offpunk now supports translations (Spanish, Galician, Dutch) and invites further localization contributions.
- •New tools and features include the renamed "openk" file opener, "xkcdpunk" for terminal XKCD viewing, and integrated "unmerdify" with FiveFilters rules (fallback to readability).
- •A "cookies" command allows importing cookie text files from traditional browsers for domain-specific logged-in browsing; social "share" and "reply" email features were also added.