I loved Usenet back in the day, but I sort of wonder why organisations keep their servers running. I struggle to find any active newsgroups these days. Weirdly enough spam still hits some of the groups.

And conspiracy chain mails still pondering on whether or not 9/11 was an inside job. I joined usenet recently to see how the things were, and it had some serious ghost town vibes.

Yeah it died off sadly. Had so many good news discussions back then. Still miss the buzz of downloading a new batch of messages.

I used Gmane[1] to access mailing lists as newsgroups, which I've always thought was a much better fit.

Alas as with all good things that was shut down also.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmane

News.gmane.io is up. I use it daily to track a few projects.

Ah, thanks. I knew there were issues, but somehow missed they'd resolved it.

A great service, glad to see it alive and kicking!

They have not resolved the big issue.

news.gmane.io has always worked.

The issue is that the owner of that domain made a mistake and gave the control of the web frontend to someone else who just shut it down.

The D programming language forum is using nntp:

https://forum.dlang.org/help#about