Michael Lush <
mjlush@gmail.com> wrote:
What with all the kerfuffle over on Reddit perhaps it is time for a Usenet revival...
I think NNTP is certainly much better than Reddit, anyways. No central
account is needed and no web browser is needed, and you do not need to
use their user interface (and many web pages have excessive animation
and inefficiency so it is slow and uses up too much memory and power);
with NNTP you can use your own, so it is much better.
Also note that you can set up your own server if wanted, and can also
make messages federated between servers if wanted too. However, the Big 8
and alt.* can also be used on existing servers (e.g. Eternal September),
so it is not always necessary to set up your own.
(I had sometimes read Reddit but not write anything there, because I think
that NNTP is much better. I have my own NNTP server set up, although it
is hardly used much so far.)
I guess the moderation system A) needs someone at the wheel
and B) needs an overhaul to bring it into the 21st century
I think often the moderation may be not needed so much, although sometimes
it might be helpful. I also think that many of the modern designs are no
good, so should not always use merely because they are modern.
What might be helpful is a standardized format for "global scoring".
Moderators can add global scores and other users can optionally install
the global scores or not; users can still add their own private scores
too if desired. This should be a simple format that does not need to use
modern more complicated stuff such as JSON, XML, HTML, JavaScripts, etc.
A simple plain ASCII text format would be better, I think.
When messages are being flooded in the server, then something more would
be helpful such as to block users and to delete articles; if such a thing becomes common in some newsgroups then requiring an account registration
might be helpful. However, such as registration should be made to work
without a web browser (and especially without reCAPTCHA and JavaScripts
and CSS etc), if possible.
(I also think that Unicode is no good. There are other character sets if
you need them though (including TRON code), which can be helpful to write
in many other languages, but Unicode is no good.)
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