Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Borax Man Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Web Forums Vs Usenet Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 21:29:32 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 58 Message-ID: <20231118212932.1377c8d4@hotmail.com> References: <87v8a515hg.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <87zfzglr8j.fsf@lenovo.lan> <20231114120846.7503cf14@archie.localdomain> <20231114122156.1cd886ed@archie.localdomain> <20231115135657.4dcdc01c@archie.localdomain> <6555397f@news.ausics.net> <6555ae26@news.ausics.net> <6557e09d@news.ausics.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8cfba470cd54e21c2710301d1260a70f"; logging-data="3452678"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18eeVDAnFA5+pzvxq699+ZOriZYrwVbWyE=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:shxuHVEapx89lhXUCuLvDOEXvI0= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.38; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:44680 On 18 Nov 2023 07:52:30 +1000 not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > On 2023-11-16 06:52, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: > >> Carlos E. R. 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. --