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Re: Web Forums Vs Usenet

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On 18 Nov 2023 07:52:30 +1000
not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:

> Carlos E. R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> > On 2023-11-16 06:52, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:  
> >> Carlos E. R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:  
> >>> On 2023-11-15 22:34, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:  
> >> Anyway linking web forums to news servers is actually something I
> >> asked about in news.software.nntp last month. Presumably you mean
> >> where it's part of the forum configuration, but I'm interested in
> >> scraping forums client-side and turning their posts into news
> >> articles in a news spool, which could then be hosted over NNTP or
> >> browsed directly in a news reader. From that discussion I gather
> >> that this hasn't been done before. I'm not decided whether to write
> >> the software for it myself or not. Keeping up with forum software
> >> changes would make it an endless project.  
> > 
> > The old openSUSE web forum was linked to a private nntp server (Novell 
> > infraestructure). You could read or post on any of the two, and it would 
> > be seen on both. The forum software was vbulletin, if memory serves, 
> > with a custom made bridge to the nntp server (vBulletin USENET gateway, 
> > I see on saved old messages).
> > 
> > Then the forum was migrated to another software (vbulletin is not 
> > gratis), and then to discourse, I think. The gateway could not be 
> > migrated, but we believe it is feasible  
> 
> Yes I believe there are a few forum platforms that have/had support
> for a NNTP gateway, including at least one borderline popular free
> one.
> 
> But I'm not an admin, moderator, or even a frequent contributor, to
> any of these forums that I'd like to read via NNTP. Of course I'm
> not, I don't like web forums! So there's no way that I'm going to
> sway people running a web forum to set up a NNTP gateway for my
> sake, even if it might only take a bit of configuration. I'd
> probably have a better argument trying to get them to set up a
> mailing list interface and then use Gmane to access it via NNTP,
> but I'm sure I'd get nowhere with that either.
> 
> The only practical way to do it is to not involve the forum
> operators at all and just scrape the pages from my end then convert
> the forum posts into something a Usenet news reader can view. So
> that's the approach I'm interested in at the moment. Posting via a
> news reader would be neat too, but I'd be mostly satisfied with a
> read-only view.
> 
> -- 

There is a quite good one called DFeed, which runs the D Language
forum at https://forum.dlang.org/.  Nice web interface and its fast.

Dfeed is available at https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed, though I
had trouble compiling it myself.


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