IDEs we had 30 years ago

Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago by tomatocracy on Friday December 29, 2023 @03:45AM (#38802915)

A "traditional" UI for HN would surely look a lot like Usenet newsgroup readers. I think Thunderbird might even still support NNTP.

Usenet had a much better model for discussion groups/forums like HN in my view, though crucially for the modern world it is missing some kind of "comment voting"/user-driven moderation. I wonder if there's an HN<->NNTP gateway around somewhere?

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Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago by rbanffy on Friday December 29, 2023 @01:18PM (#38808288)

Voting could be handled with comments with specific content - wouldn’t even need to have a body, as everything could be in the headers. Totals could be computed at the server, unless we wanted real NNTP-style distributed discussions.

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Re:IDEs we had 30 years ago by davidwritesbugs on Saturday December 30, 2023 @05:18PM (#38819833)

You'd probably just need create your own X-header extension

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