[gopher] ANNOUNCE: New Web Portal for USENET

[Steven Krise]

Pretty cool.  Are you implementing NNTP in the backend behind an HTTP page
interface?
If you interested in crowd-sourcing programming resources you might want to
look into dropping the source code somewhere like github.

Thanks,
Steven

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 2:50 PM, mel <macpro.maillist at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks cool and works for people like me who like a simple user interface
> without all the clutter of Google or regular websites. Plus I know of no
> usenet newsreaders for both MacOS or Chromebook, platforms that I commonly
> use. Plus I think this will work on my Android phone and my aging Nintendo
> DSi which I use for text browsing websites like Floodgap Gopher and SDF
> Gopher, etc.
>
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Mr. Leveck <leveck at leveck.us> wrote:
>
>> Nice and clean. Bookmarked for potential use in the future. Good job.
>>
>> I typically use NNTP via SSH into RPoD (my Raspberry Pi that's internet
>> hitable), due to the afore mentioned syncing issue with USENET.
>>
>> --
>> Leveck
>>
>> 19. Oct 2017 04:16 by jaruzel at jaruzel.com:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> What with the ongoing discussion on where the list is going, and lots of
>> peoples adversion to USENET and Google Groups (the latter of which I
>> also dislike), I spent a couple of hours last night, coding up this:
>>
>> http://www.jaruzel.com/apps/usenet
>>
>> It's 100% a proof of concept, and very rough around the edges, and also
>> doesn't have any posting ability (yet!), but it's something I've been
>> meaning to do for quite some time, as there are quite a few low traffic
>> USENET groups I want to start following regularly.
>>
>> So, is this useful or not? If it was fleshed out into a proper platform
>> would people use it? Does it help in the on-going conversation of
>> whether to migrate to comp.infosystems.gopher or not?
>>
>> Of course, it's not that hard to evolve what I've got to include a
>> mailing list function and a proper domain for it to live on etc. Which I
>> am happy to host and manage.
>>
>> If there's no takers, then fine. As I said it's something I've wanted to
>> have anyway... :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Matt (Jaruzel)
>>
>>
>>
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