Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations Date: 1 Aug 2026 18:24:00 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 5DW8fc8IpJkc5FeMVLdHBwTHM9iV5nWI2LHdyK3OnumagkBhjG Cancel-Lock: sha1:F4ST9FXnVSFnsRcryc3V8Sk5pMc= sha256:gVmqaKBZjNsCi29AJKpaauam7N72+3Q3Ia7NueYOCl8= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:89399 On Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:52:35 +0200, s|b wrote: > On 31 Jul 2026 18:57:00 GMT, rbowman wrote: > >> On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:12:39 +0200, s|b wrote: >> >> > As soon as I got their message I mailed and asked them to reconsider, >> > but no go. )-: > >> The graphic on the homepage isn't quite 'It's dead, Fred!' but close. > > 'The era of Usenet is over' )-: It's hard to disagree. When Google dropped their interface traffic dropped remarkably. alt.home.repair seldom has anything on topic but there was a Brit that I enjoyed who must have been using Google. I was surprised earlier this year to find Google Groups is alive, not just the interface. We started a Linux User Group in 2007 that fizzled out rapidly. Someone who wanted to revive the LUG found it and I received an email about a new post. We decided Google wasn't a good idea and moved to Discord just in time for the age verification panic. The next stop was Matrix/Element. Not my favorite, but so it goes. I'd looked at stoat but being based in the UK it is susceptible to the UK's campaign to reduce the aggregate web IQ to 57.