Re: Finding the One

On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 15:57:38 -0000 (UTC), Samuel Soderberg <samuel@samuelsoderberg.se> wrote:

I have tried a few different readers now, and none of them really clicked.
Usenet could perhaps be enhanced if I could only find the one...
Thunderbird, Pan, Agent, Newsbin, Unison, Hogwasher, Usenapp.
Mail integration that you can not hide, no dark theme, stuck in the dial
up-era a la press enter/double click to retrieve messages, etc.
I have not bothered with the text-based clients.
Hm.
Usenapp.
They could rename it to something cool.
It costs money, but it is for macOS. :)
Okay, you are it!

the best freeware newsreaders are 40tude Dialog and MicroPlanet Gravity;
both are full-featured, user-friendly, and fairly easy to setup and use,
especially MicroPlanet Gravity which is also more up-to-date (2021-5-2):

(using Tor Browser 13.5.1)
https://mpgravity.sourceforge.net/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpgravity/files/latest/download

(Setup-MPGravity-3.0.4.exe / 8.69 MB), extracted . . .
( / 2.19 MB / 15 Files, 0 Folders), installed . . .
( \Program Files (x86)\Microplanet\Gravity 3.0 / 5.64 MB / 12 Files, 2 Folders)
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(using Tor Browser 13.5.1)
https://www.grc.com/discussions.htm

The best newsreader app for Windows is Gravity. Thanks to the fact that its C++
source code was released by its original authors, MicroPlanet, it has been kept
alive on the Internet. (The MicroPlanet Gravity newsreader project lives here at
Sourceforge http://mpgravity.sourceforge.net/.) After a 10-year hiatus (it was
last updated in 2010), I (Steve) decided to pick it up and keep it current. So,
GRC now offers the only still-working version of Gravity. I am independently
maintaining the source and have published a signed executable and installer.
You can find it here:
File stats for: Gravity Setup (v3.0.11)
file download https://www.grc.com/files/GravitySetup.zip

(GravitySetup.zip / 7.41 MB), extracted . . .
( / 7.57 MB / 3 Files, 0 Folders; "Gravity-v3.0.11-Setup.msi"), installed . . .
( \Program Files (x86)\Microplanet\Gravity 3.0 / 4.16 MB / 13 Files, 2 Folders)

File stats for: Gravity Update (v3.0.11)
file download https://www.grc.com/files/Gravity.exe

(Gravity.exe / 0.98 MB), . . .
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i've tested MicroPlanet Gravity in Windows 7 and 11, and it works great;
(40tude Dialog also works fine, but alas it is much older "abandonware")