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USENET still exists, and some groups are still active, just not at their peak from yesteryear -- so why not go join and see if anything is happening in your old
by pwg 3y ago
USENET still exists, and some groups are still active, just not at their peak from yesteryear -- so why not go join and see if anything is happening in your old haunts.
Free access to text only groups: http://www.eternal-september.org/ http://www.eternal-september.org/
Pick a newsreader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders and go take a look.
- readyplayernull 3y agoIt would be interesting to know from a USENETer perspective how it feels to see the hordes of Redditors flooding their platform in an Eternal September once again [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
- xtracto 3y agoI feel that the Usenet protocol in hand with today's technologies should be amazing. It should be possible to make a very powerful client that summarizes groups discussions say, by day/week; filters spam pretty aggressively and sorts or "mutes" known trolls or bad users. The one thing I also wish would be better is discoverability... Just the other day I logged in into an irc server (LiberaChat?) but just didn't know where to go from there.. I got into my country's room, but it was very quiet.
- Parodper 3y ago> The one thing I also wish would be better is discoverability... Just the other day I logged in into an irc server (LiberaChat?) but just didn't know where to go from there.. I got into my country's room, but it was very quiet. Check out netsplit.de. It has a list of channels sorted by popularity.
- grep_name 3y agoAny chance you have a recommendation of newsreader for android?