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Eternal September, a popular nntp server, has some statistics on posting done through their server. http://www.eternal-september.org/postingstats.php http://ww

Eternal September, a popular nntp server, has some statistics on posting done through their server. http://www.eternal-september.org/postingstats.php http://www.eternal-september.org/postingstats.php The top 5 newsgroups for May 2023: it.politica, fr.misc.actualite.covid19, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, it.hobby.fai-da-te, uk.d-i-y I'm not sure what to make of that (aside from the large Italian/French contingent) but the top 10 includes some normal fare like rec.food.cooking, rec.arts.tv, and rec.bicycles.tech

jll29 3y ago
Is HN available (e.g. "comp.culture.hn") on USENET? It would be nice to have the Web forum be interoperable with a USENET group. The pull model (consume based on your topic/activity) of USENET newsgroups fits forum discussions much better than the "visit all pages you care about daily" Web model, IMHO.
- bluGill 3y ago
  The usenet model also is much better for reading because it tracks what you have already read. If I come to this article tomorrow I'll see all the comments from today that I already read, and someplace mixed in there are new comments that came after I finished reading. Some of those comments are very insightful, but no web forum I've seen has any concept of "you already read this so we will make it easy to skip that by default". Technically USENET doesn't have that concept either, but all the software I have ever used to read it does, and that is what counts. (unfortunately all the software is local only so I can't switch between my phone and my desktop for reading - then again I haven't looked at USENET in 25 years so I don't know what is current)
  - JdeBP 3y ago
    It's sad that the threaded reading capabilities of most computer-mediated communications systems are actually worse nowadays than they were in the heydays of Netscape Communicator and trn.
  - cykros 3y ago
    The best solution there would be using some sort of web based hosted solution, which may well not exist. Thinking something like how TT-RSS replaced Google Reader. Basically, self hosted Google Groups, back when Google Groups was synonymous with web based usenet. Shouldn't be too crazy to cobble together, if it doesn't already exist -- just an nntp client on top of a lamp stack.
- ksherlock 3y ago
  There is a hacker news API so somebody could set up an NNTP server with an HN newsgroup. Looks like it's already been done, at least for personal use. If a newsgroup is read-only and only on one NNTP server, does it count as usenet? Is that like the sound of one hand clapping? https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://www.npmjs.com/package/hackernews2nntp https://www.npmjs.com/package/hackernews2nntp https://github.com/gromnitsky/hackernews2nntp https://github.com/gromnitsky/hackernews2nntp Honorable mention for gwene.org which converts RSS feeds into NNTP and gmane.org that converts mailing lists into NNTP.

jll29 3y ago

Is HN available (e.g. "comp.culture.hn") on USENET? It would be nice to have the Web forum be interoperable with a USENET group. The pull model (consume based on your topic/activity) of USENET newsgroups fits forum discussions much better than the "visit all pages you care about daily" Web model, IMHO.

bluGill 3y ago
The usenet model also is much better for reading because it tracks what you have already read. If I come to this article tomorrow I'll see all the comments from today that I already read, and someplace mixed in there are new comments that came after I finished reading. Some of those comments are very insightful, but no web forum I've seen has any concept of "you already read this so we will make it easy to skip that by default". Technically USENET doesn't have that concept either, but all the software I have ever used to read it does, and that is what counts. (unfortunately all the software is local only so I can't switch between my phone and my desktop for reading - then again I haven't looked at USENET in 25 years so I don't know what is current)
- JdeBP 3y ago
  It's sad that the threaded reading capabilities of most computer-mediated communications systems are actually worse nowadays than they were in the heydays of Netscape Communicator and trn.
- cykros 3y ago
  The best solution there would be using some sort of web based hosted solution, which may well not exist. Thinking something like how TT-RSS replaced Google Reader. Basically, self hosted Google Groups, back when Google Groups was synonymous with web based usenet. Shouldn't be too crazy to cobble together, if it doesn't already exist -- just an nntp client on top of a lamp stack.
ksherlock 3y ago
There is a hacker news API so somebody could set up an NNTP server with an HN newsgroup. Looks like it's already been done, at least for personal use. If a newsgroup is read-only and only on one NNTP server, does it count as usenet? Is that like the sound of one hand clapping? https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://www.npmjs.com/package/hackernews2nntp https://www.npmjs.com/package/hackernews2nntp https://github.com/gromnitsky/hackernews2nntp https://github.com/gromnitsky/hackernews2nntp Honorable mention for gwene.org which converts RSS feeds into NNTP and gmane.org that converts mailing lists into NNTP.