Re:The Great Renaming 1985 – 1988 (2000)
by myself248 on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:46PM
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Yeah, having my own UI, and having it be consistent across everywhere, is the thing I miss the most about the old internet. I mostly used Forte Free Agent because I was a kid without a lot of cash, but I remember there were much fancier options.
I could swear that somewhat recently (in the past 5-6 years), I saw mention of some forum software that could also provide NNTP access, but I can't seem to locate it now.
I feel like accessibility of forums would skyrocket if people could use their own interface, with whatever adaptations they want. That might be an angle to pursue...
>I saw mention of some forum software that could also provide NNTP access.
is it this?
https://github.com/epilys/tade
"tade is a discussion/forum/link aggregator application. It provides three interfaces: a regular web page, a mailing list bridge and an NNTP server"
Re:The Great Renaming 1985 – 1988 (2000)
by myself248 on Friday November 25, 2022 @12:01PM
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That's not the one I was thinking of, it looks very new, but it looks awesome!
Re:The Great Renaming 1985 – 1988 (2000)
by BlueTemplar on Friday November 25, 2022 @03:52AM
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Well, there's Tapatalk helping to navigate forums on small touchscreens...
Re:The Great Renaming 1985 – 1988 (2000)
by Dracophoenix on Friday November 25, 2022 @10:57AM
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> I could swear that somewhat recently (in the past 5-6 years), I saw mention of some forum software that could also provide NNTP access, but I can't seem to locate it now.
Do you mean FUDForums?
>http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=120406&goto=167...
Re:The Great Renaming 1985 – 1988 (2000)
by User23 on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:54PM
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IRC did this for me. Seeing that the #warez op who owned breasts.com was making $50k a month for reposting titty pics back in 1995 made me realize I had to rethink the whole future plan my parents had in mind for me.
It's great to see in this article some of the names of net.personalities, along with some of the backstory I wasn't aware of.
I also miss the great UI that I eventually had for Usenet. I was just thinking that yesterday, while trying to get an interesting feed in Fediverse with Mastodon software; and a few days, earlier while skimming various forums for Rust. The closest to what I want might be old.reddit.com and HN, but both are primitive compared to the UI that I used to have.