Sujet : Re: This is what the Pan newsreader for Windows looks like right now
De : nospam (at) *nospam* dfs.com (DFS)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 27. May 2024, 17:12:39
Autres entêtes
Message-ID : <6654a2e7$0$6426$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>
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User-Agent : Betterbird (Windows)
On 5/25/2024 9:33 PM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
On 2024-05-25 5:52 p.m., DFS wrote:
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https://imgur.com/a/x8FI6dI
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You promoters of GuhNoo/FOSS crapware need your heads examined.
Fact.
That behaviour was part of why I moved to Forte Agent. Forte's awful filtration system is why I gave up, went back to Betterbird, and just abandoned trying to get blocknews to work right. I'm back on eternal-september.org.
Yeah, blocknews on Thunderbird/Betterbird has degraded into nearly unusable as of late. Read 10 posts (sometimes ONE), then get dropped connections that won't reconnect until you restart the newsreader. Submit posts that don't show up for 10 minutes, if at all.
I've already had to restart the app 3x this morning just to read cola from BetterBird.
At one point I had to remove the blocknews acct from Betterbird, uninstall Betterbird, dig into C:\users\appdata and delete a Thunderbird folder or two, reinstall BBird and resubscribe to cola to get it to work. What a fiasco.
Eternal september is as reliable as ever. And it auto-filters some crossposting clowns. But it's too slow for me.
So I recently tried Claws Mail and Pan, but neither can hold a candle to the Birds. XanaNews is pretty good, though.
I spent a month and wrote my own very easy to use newsreader in PyQt. A few clicks to choose a group and download N posts and you're subscribed. Couple clicks to delete the subscription. Has filtering and sorting and bolding/not bolding and replies.
It's a work-in-progress, but I'll give it away (public domain) someday when I finish a few crucial features, like save drafts and save sent.
Here's what it looks like now:
https://imgur.com/a/Lh0ZNZx