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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? by xtracto on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:07PM (#19040104)
> Regressions happen, and the Eternal September is real.

Now that UUCP time has come and gone, I wonder if Usenet might have returned to its once former glory. It would be a really good place for technical conversation.

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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? by FPGAhacker on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @05:23PM (#19040227)
Well, it's google groups now, right?

It's a decent ready-to-go forum. I only used it for the clojure groups, but then the clj community discovered slack. All that useful topically categorized awesomeness now must be mined from worthless slack logs.

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Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? by floren on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @07:00PM (#19040956)
Usenet still exists independent of Google Groups. Google provides an interface for users to post on Usenet groups, at least until they decide to stop supporting it, but you don't need Google at all to get on Usenet: http://www.eternal-september.org/
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