Web-based newsreader

Blacklord · June 29, 2007, 08:51 PM

A looooong time ago someone asked me to implement this. At the time, I ran into all sorts of issues & simply couldn't do it. Now, I think I've got it mostly working.

Head to here : http://landover.no-ip.com/news/

Report any bugs, issues etc back.

Notes :

It isn't (yet) 100% real-time. A fetch is done once an hour (so you may notice delays loading a large group).
There is no sanity checking on email addresses it'll post whatever you type in as your address.
Every now and again the cron job to clean up old messages doesn't, it duplicates everything (next time round it cleans up properly though).
Large groups (ie comp.sys.cbm) can take up to a minute to do a full refresh.

Anyway, try it out.

Golan Klinger · June 30, 2007, 02:06 AM

Looks very nice in Lynx. That should make a few people happy although if they have shell access to a UNIX box to run Lynx/Links, they probably have access to tin/trn/slrn etc. Regardless, another access method is always handy.

Stephane Richard · June 30, 2007, 02:46 AM

So far it seems to be working as expected in FireFox and IE both on my Windows XP Professional based PC. Great work.

Blacklord · June 30, 2007, 09:16 AM

Quote from: mystikshadowsSo far it seems to be working as expected in FireFox and IE both on my Windows XP Professional based PC. Great work.

Goodo - I can obviously expand it to add in any other newsgroup too.

Lance

nikoniko · June 30, 2007, 01:56 PM

Nice work, Lance! Much better than Google Groups or the few other web readers I've tried. :tummenupp:

Mangelore · June 30, 2007, 08:59 PM

Excellent! Now, I'll be able to check the newsgroups while at work...

xlar54 · July 01, 2007, 03:15 AM

Hmm, I didnt get anything today on it - maybe youre in the middle of doing some work on it? Just says "Classic 8 Bit Computer Web Newsreader" then empty.

xlar54 · July 01, 2007, 03:16 AM

ooooor.....just refreshing my browser fixed it...

Blacklord · July 01, 2007, 07:30 AM

Quote from: xlar54ooooor.....just refreshing my browser fixed it...

That will likely happen - I haven't yet worked out how to force it to properly auto-refresh (told you it's just experimental at this stage!) - but that's all good, more fault reports the better.

cheers,

Lance

nikoniko · July 31, 2007, 09:18 AM

Hmm... where did c.s.c go?

Landover

Google

Blacklord · July 31, 2007, 10:29 AM

Just loaded it, so not sure about that one!

Golan Klinger · July 31, 2007, 02:50 PM

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Web-based newsreader

nikoniko

Mangelore

nikoniko