*argh*  There must be three interfaces to this newsgroups from the website, and all of them are terrible with the one not sucking the least being impossible to find!

http://www.digitalmars.com links to http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?newsgroups=* Which is nonfunctioning..

Then http://www.digitalmars.com/d/ links to: http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/indexing.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D

Which just plain sucks badly, and doesn't seem to show all the messages.

Then I _KNOW_ there is a third one somewhere that is decent, but I can't seem to find another link to it.  It supported threading and whatnot.

/rant

S. wrote:
> *argh*  There must be three interfaces to this newsgroups from the website,
> and all of them are terrible with the one not sucking the least being
> impossible to find!
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com links to
> http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?newsgroups=*
> Which is nonfunctioning..
> 
> Then http://www.digitalmars.com/d/ links to:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/indexing.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D
> 
> Which just plain sucks badly, and doesn't seem to show all the messages.
> 
> Then I _KNOW_ there is a third one somewhere that is decent, but I can't seem
> to find another link to it.  It supported threading and whatnot.
> 
> /rant

http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?search_txt=&group=digitalmars.D

I agree, this one should be the default. Although a proper reader is better, a lot of people seem to use the web-based interface.

Lutger wrote:
> S. wrote:
>> *argh*  There must be three interfaces to this newsgroups from the website,
>> and all of them are terrible with the one not sucking the least being
>> impossible to find!
>>
>> http://www.digitalmars.com links to
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/drn-bin/wwwnews?newsgroups=*
>> Which is nonfunctioning..
>>
>> Then http://www.digitalmars.com/d/ links to:
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/indexing.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D 
>>
>>
>> Which just plain sucks badly, and doesn't seem to show all the messages.
>>
>> Then I _KNOW_ there is a third one somewhere that is decent, but I can't seem
>> to find another link to it.  It supported threading and whatnot.
>>
>> /rant
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?search_txt=&group=digitalmars.D 
> 
> 
> I agree, this one should be the default. Although a proper reader is better, a lot of people seem to use the web-based interface.



> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?search_txt=&group=digitalmars.D 


Yes this is the good one, I can never find this one though, where did you find a link to it ?

Charlie

To add to the multitude of options, here is a quick hack I threw together. I never intended for this to become a web news reader interface though. :) The software is of course written in D. Currently, it only works really well in firefox:

http://www.csc.kth.se/~ol/news/

Could this be worth pursuing?

--
Oskar

Oskar Linde wrote:

> Currently, it only works really
> well in firefox:

Not true it works perfectly fine in konqueror and safari to.

> Could this be worth pursuing?
> 
> --
> Oskar

Yes deffinatly, this is the best webinterface I have seen for newsgroups (althrough my knowledge of webbased newsreader is quite limited).

ps. I did not see any posting mechanism is this because none is there or because of broken webbrowsers.

Oskar Linde wrote:
> To add to the multitude of options, here is a quick hack I threw together. I never
> intended for this to become a web news reader interface though. :) The software is
> of course written in D. Currently, it only works really well in firefox:
> 
> http://www.csc.kth.se/~ol/news/
> 
> Could this be worth pursuing?
> 
> --
> Oskar
> 
> 

Well yes I think so. It looks good and is easy to use. I like it.

Oskar Linde wrote:
> To add to the multitude of options, here is a quick hack I threw together. I never
> intended for this to become a web news reader interface though. :) The software is
> of course written in D. Currently, it only works really well in firefox:
> 
> http://www.csc.kth.se/~ol/news/
> 
> Could this be worth pursuing?
> 
> --
> Oskar
> 
> 

It does look good, ands its much faster than any of the other web based newsreaders. Only thing I would change is the font ;).

Charlie

Oskar Linde Wrote:

> To add to the multitude of options, here is a quick hack I threw together. I never intended for this to become a web news reader interface though. :) The software is of course written in D. Currently, it only works really well in firefox:
> 
> http://www.csc.kth.se/~ol/news/
> 
> Could this be worth pursuing?
> 
> --
> Oskar
> 
> 

Please do.

vtp

Oskar Linde wrote:
> To add to the multitude of options, here is a quick hack I threw together. I never
> intended for this to become a web news reader interface though. :) The software is
> of course written in D. Currently, it only works really well in firefox:
> 
> http://www.csc.kth.se/~ol/news/
> 
> Could this be worth pursuing?
> 
> --
> Oskar
> 

Bug: if you look at my reply to BCS's post "Ping: Daniel Keep", your reader eats all the text after "<excuses>".

Also, it's putting newer stuff down the bottom.  You have no idea how much that bugs me.

Apart from those two things, it's very nice.  Quick and simple.  I like :)

What's that make?  Five ways to read the newsgroups? :P

	-- Daniel

Johan Granberg wrote:
> Oskar Linde wrote:
> 
>> Currently, it only works really
>> well in firefox:
> 
> Not true it works perfectly fine in konqueror and safari to.

Except that it doesn't mark read articles correctly.

> ps. I did not see any posting mechanism is this because none is there or
> because of broken webbrowsers.

There is none. (It should not be very hard to write one though.)

/Oskar