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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by innguest on Thursday July 02, 2015 @11:51PM (#9823347)
Yeah, because those are all the things that keep IRC alive... not.

You really don't think it's an architecture problem?

Do you really think "all" we need is "good tech" and "good people"? Everyone thinks that, and thinks they have that when they start something.

What we need, I think, is a forum/thread/whatchamacallit protocol, like IRC is that protocol for chat.

Am I crazy?

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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by bradleyjg on Friday July 03, 2015 @12:53AM (#9823570)
It's called NNTP and predates HTTP.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by dagw on Friday July 03, 2015 @06:42AM (#9824686)
And it was glorious. And then it died.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by pjc50 on Friday July 03, 2015 @10:03AM (#9825629)
.. partly due to lack of effective moderation tools.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by kefka on Friday July 03, 2015 @12:55PM (#9826642)
No. It was thanks to the ISPs dumping NNTP servers.

Back in the dialup days, they had NNTP servers available, pulling nearly all the NGs. As time went by, alt.binaries took over 99% of the bandwidth, along with a nice cornucopia of pirated content. It was rather awesome.

When DSL/Cable took over, those companies axed their news servers, if they had any at all. And your server choice was to use a non-binaries carrying, post limited free server or paid server.

That's how it was killed.

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