Re: Has this place truely died?

On 25/05/2024 03:50, Arcturax wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2024 11:29:46 +0200, Bluefire wrote:
> 
>> On 22/05/2024 03:18, Arcturax wrote:
>>> AFD seems a ruin to me now, a place where I once ran and played and
>>> sometimes fought with or besides so many. Now it sits empty, a little
>>> crust here from a long ago food fight, a bird streaked statue of the
>>> unknown dragon, empty fields and forests that once echoed with the
>>> laughter of dragons and their friends.
>>>
>>> I'll never forget this place, and I'm glad pieces of it survive
>>> elsewhere,
>>> like habitable pieces of a shattered world.
>>>
>>> But are there none left who visit this once happy shell?
>>>
>>>
>> There's still me! :)
>>
>> I have noticed that, with Google Groups discontinuing its integration
>> with Usenet, people are under the impression that alt.fan.dragons died
>> with it. They aren't aware there are other ways to access Usenet
>> newsgroups.
>>
>> With that said, Google Groups was by far the easiest way for people to
>> access newsgroups. It'll take a while before the word has spread
>> alt.fan.dragons is still around, and people have set up a Usenet client
>> of their own.
> 
> Yeah, I figured that had a lot to do with it really dying down even more
> here. You can get an account at eternal september, it expires if you don't
> use it regularly (not sure how long before but I was able re-register in
> minutes).
> 
> 
> 

Looking online, it seems some people are actually happy about Google 
Groups getting decoupled from Usenet, due to a lot of spam originating 
from there. I suppose that may have applied to big newsgroups, but I 
don´t think it did alt.fan.dragons any favours.

I personally have Eternal September and my Usenet newsgroups integrated 
with Thunderbird, my e-mail client of choice. I think it logs in every 
time I check my mail, so I've never had the issue of my account being 
flagged as inactive.