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Look Usenet is nice and all but it's not a forum system and it's definitely not a reddit substitute. It is decentralized though, which is great.
by crowbahr 9y ago
Look Usenet is nice and all but it's not a forum system and it's definitely not a reddit substitute.
It is decentralized though, which is great.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Look Usenet is nice and all but it's not a forum system That's exactly what Usenet is, and Usenet with 1990-era terminal clients was superior in most respects to most current web-based forum systems.
- webmaven 9y agoHeck, 1996-era GUI clients are also superior in most respects. Jon Udell wrote an excellent book in 1999 on building collaborative systems with NNTP servers, web technologies, etc.: https://archive.org/details/practicalinterne00udel https://archive.org/details/practicalinterne00udel