Re: Emigration from Usenet [was: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...]

Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote:

I've tried out mastodon and I don't like it.  Only usable for
chit-chat, you can't open a "thread" in a new tab by middle click,

 
Any web dev that breaks middle click to open a link in a new tab should
never be allowed to work on any web projects ever again.

I've seen reference to it requiring Javascript, in which case that
might be deliberate to avoid people opening a big bunch of tabs at
once, therefore requesting the full bloated JS interface from the
server each time and causing extra server load.

Discourse annoyes me that way. It allows you to open threads in
new tabs, but then depending on my internet speed when I go to a
new tab I'm looking at a loading animation for 5 - 30s. There's
a JS-free version offered to "unsupported" browsers that I usually
use, but it doesn't have a way to go straight to the last page of
a long thread, and no search.

Facebook/Twitter people don't interest me much, it's clunky web
forums that actually annoy me more. I must get around to trying to
build a web forum to NNTP gateway one day, although It'll probably
send me crazy trying to keep up with scraping different forum
platform page layouts.

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