Re: Has this place truely died?

On Sat, 25 May 2024 12:44:32 +0200, Bluefire wrote:

> 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.

Using Pan on Linux here, but its not the best reader, its interface kinda 
sucks. Lets see if it can actually do my bloody sig this time.



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