hi! On Wed, Nov 04, 2026 at 09:42:25PM -0800, Greg Thomas wrote: > I miss Usenet.
Amen! The best tool ever to exchange ideas and knowledge. > When folks started leaving Usenet for dedicated web forums I think my > communities fractured and lost their direction. I think it declined just because of the eternal september¹. too many people: * behind communities had just enough time and money to use a php hoster * discovered internet with commercial websites, hotmail and MSN messenger and didn't realized there were alternatives. * the ISP were more than happy about this ignorance because the didn't have to maintain their local nodes. the saddest thing about it is that web fractured communities multiple times: reddit, stack*, disc*, phpbb, ... you name it. At least phpBB can be self hosted so you don't trust a private company. ¹: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September Regards -- Marc Chantreux
