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

Computer Nerd Kev:

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.

In case you are building it for the heck of it, there is one
already:
                 <https://news.novabbs.org>

If, on the other hand, your ambition is a bridge between
real web forums and NNTP, there have been working
implementations in englishforums.com (many years ago) and
the Microsoft forums (via NNTPBridge, not so many years
ago). Both were abandoned, partly because forums do not
agree with NNTP either ideologically (centralisation)
physically (different message format). For the same reason
Discourse is not a replacement for mailing lists, just a
lousy surrogate for them.  Somehow the majority of users
prefer wading the bloated and clumsy web interfaces of their
Chrome-based browsers...

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