Re: This is what the Pan newsreader for Windows looks like right now

RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote at 00:55 this Tuesday (GMT):

On 2024-05-27, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

On 2024-05-27 11:12 a.m., DFS wrote:

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.

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Fact.
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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.

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I gave up and am using Eternal September. I went back and forth with
their technical team and they found nothing wrong, so I doubt that it
will ever get fixed.
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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.

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I did that and it still didn't work.
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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

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I can manage with the slow speed of Eternal September. Hopefully,
Blocknews will fix everything by the time it becomes unbearably slow.

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If you're just using text newsgroups, you might want to check out
individual.net. rbowman seems to have good luck with it — I think it costs
about $12 (U.S.) a year (depending on the current exchange rate).
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Personally I don't have any trouble with eternal-september. But I only
monitor about five text newsgroups, so it's not heavy usage.

I have like 90 newsgroups (though most are inactive) and I haven't had
many issues. Then again, I use slrnpull to save everything locally.
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