Re: small Usenet-style web forum: RootBadger

Mara Vale <[email protected]> wrote:
> I help test a small discussion site that might be interesting to people who
> still like topic-first conversations:
> 
> https://www.rootbadger.com
> 
> RootBadger is a web forum, but it borrows the parts of Usenet that still make
> sense: readable threads, named groups, topical hierarchies, and titles that
> actually say what a thread is about. It is not trying to replace Usenet. It is
> more like "what if a modern web board kept the useful namespace idea instead of
> turning everything into one feed?"

Weird, some posts have "metadata" like Usenet headers, such as
Message-ID and User-Agent, yet I can't find anything in the docs
about accessing it via NNTP and attempts to connect to
rootbadger.com from a newsreader fail with "connection refused".

I don't understand why anyone would do this and not make it
accessible over NNTP as well as the Web interface. I've never
posted to Usenet from a Web interface even though there have been
and still are various ones available (Google Groups being the main
one in the past, of course). Why would I embrace a new platform
that doesn't give me the option to use a real client of my choice
instead of just one official web interface?

There are various independent NNTP servers separate from Usenet,
many with their own Web interfaces. Sometimes they're even carried
by some Usenet news servers even though they're not officially part
of Usenet. That would be a more attractive proposition than some
Usenet-inspired web forum that misses the main attractions of
Usenet for me, which are enabled by NNTP access.

-- 
__          __
#_ < |\| |< _#