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Out of curiosity (as someone who never had the chance to see Usenet at its prime), what are Usenets strengths and weaknesses?
by z1mm32m4n 9y ago
Out of curiosity (as someone who never had the chance to see Usenet at its prime), what are Usenets strengths and weaknesses?
- Jaruzel 9y agoStrengths: Totally de-centralised - your post on your local NNTP server, and it gets replicated across the NNTP mesh to all the other servers. Built in threading... Actually HN is very similar to how a fairly busy newsgroup would look back in the day. Weaknesses: Posts used to take hours (sometimes days) to replicate across the whole mesh. Not so much nowadays tho. Text only; no native support for rich media or Unicode (although some might see that as a Strength)