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From: Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com>
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: Newsgrouper Update
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:57:43 +0000
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On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:44:07 +0000, Colin Macleod wrote:

> =?UTF-8?B?U2FtdWVsIFPDtmRlcmJlcmc=?= <samuel@samuelsoderberg.se> posted:
>>
>> Amazing work!
>>
>> What if we could have your frontend as an option @ the site of
>> Eternal-September... Google Groups resurrected...
>
> Thanks for the encouragement.
>
> A few months ago Ray Banana, the E-S admin, was experimenting with
> Rocksolid Light, as used at https://www.novabbs.com with a view to
> providing that as a web front-end to E-S.  I don't know what the state
> of that project is now.

I don't know either. I would assume trying to serve thousands of groups
with Rocksolid Light would be quite difficult, as that is not what it is
designed to do. RSLight is really meant as a forum style interface to a
"selection" of groups. This is working well for my users, who are mostly
not really Usenet savvy, but like the forum style. (They don't know it
contains a full nnrpd backend :)

Newsgrouper seems designed to handle any number of groups, and is suited
to people already familiar with Usenet, who will appreciate the
familiarity with the structure.

I feel the two packages (rslight and Newsgrouper) and designed for
different audiences, which is a good thing :)

-- 
Retro Guy