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I'm hoping there is a startup that modernise Usenet and put a nice UX on top, similar to what Slack has done to irc. Why should Reddit has all the fun?
by xngzng 12y ago
I'm hoping there is a startup that modernise Usenet and put a nice UX on top, similar to what Slack has done to irc. Why should Reddit has all the fun?
- _ZeD_ 12y agoI'm hoping NOT. "a nice UX" is what killed the rest of usenet (google groups anyone?)
- zobzu 12y agopretty slack may also kill IRC in the same way (seriously) at some point nobody is going to use either
- ido 12y agoWhat killed GG is that for the longest time it was swamped with spam. Took them surprisingly long to get on top of that.
- fit2rule 12y agoWhat killed Usenet was AOL, not Google Groups, which was more like an attempt at resuscitation/usurpation than anything else.
- dredmorbius 12y agoIf it killed the rest of Usenet, it was no true Scotsman. Erm, not a nice UX.
- dredmorbius 12y agoThat is a concept to which I've contributed not a few thought cycles to over the years. Among the more substantial collections of those cycles is here: http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1t21cj/what_would_be_required_for_an_snmlsntp_federated/ http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1t21cj/what_wou... There are a number of old Usenetters on G+, including Peter da Silva, who at one point was the most prolific poster on Usenet. And, under another identity, the third. Some recent additions (not on the link): Why the hell isn't there a "collapsing thread" primitive in HTML? Which I suppose calls for a threaded primitive as well. I'm pretty much at the point I'm ready to throw in the towel and create an Internet proxy which rewrites all Web pages to strip _all_ the fucking design off of them and deliver them styled pretty much as Readability / Pocket do now.