Re: Newsgrouper - a web interface to Usenet (text only)

Colin Macleod <user7@cmacleod.me.uk.invalid> wrote:

not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) posted:

 

It's not really
usable on mobile devices yet, I hope to improve this. The architecture
can be summarised as nntp/Tcl/Redis/Tcl/Tk/Xvnc/Cloudflare/noVNC.

 
I see, I never considered that it might be implemented that way, I
was expecting some fairly bare-bones HTML.

 
I have now reimplemented Newsgrouper in "fairly bare-bones HTML",
partly because I couldn't get the noVNC-based version to be properly
usable on mobile devices.  There are still many desirable features
that I have not implemented yet, but hope to get to eventually.
One aspect that may be of interest is that it supports the full set of
newsgroups available on eternal-september.org, not just a pre-selected
subset as rslight does. It can be found at https://cmacleod.me.uk/ng

Nice, it works well now in Firefox. Sorting latest threads on the
bottom might confuse GG users who would be used to having them on
the top though. Links and Dillo don't seem to be compatible with
it, though GG was barely usable with them too. The "formaction"
parameters in the <input> tags aren't being recognised - why not
use ordinary links there? - but even manually going to:
https://cmacleod.me.uk/news/guest
And pressing "Continue" doesn't log in for some reason, even though
cookies are enabled.

Perhaps an option to render posts in fixed-width font (inside
<pre></pre>) would be nice for alt.ascii-art etc.

Anyway great work, it's nice to see more alternatives.

This is a similar thing that was posted to a newsgroup recently,
though it has obviously been around for a while:
http://put.hk/

It has its own problems, though it sort-of works in lightweight web
browsers.

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