fetchpost
Save HN post and comments as mails in maildir format (by holygeek)
nntpit
minimalist reddit2nntp gateway (by taviso)
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| fetchpost | nntpit | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 | |
| 5 | 231 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 1.8 | |
| about 2 years ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| Go | C | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
fetchpost
Posts with mentions or reviews of fetchpost.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-05.
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Ask HN: Hacker News comment tree indentation on text based web browsers
Use mutt! Now you can read each post as if it was part of an email thread. But first you have to get the comments saved as a maildir email conversations... that’s where my fetchpost[1] tool comes in.
[1] https://github.com/holygeek/fetchpost
nntpit
Posts with mentions or reviews of nntpit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-25.
- I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020)
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/r/2600 will go dark from June 12-14 in protest against Reddit API changes
For myself I use https://github.com/taviso/nntpit which uses the subreddit's .json endpoint and is done by an indy developer not a business. So changes to Reddit's API negatively impact FOSS tools like this.
- I nuovi prezzi di Reddit per le API potrebbero portare alla fine delle app third-party.
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do you reddit from the commandline?
It looks like this: https://github.com/taviso/nntpit/blob/main/doc/screenshot.png
- 1991 war die Welt noch in Ordnung, da ging man in den Buchladen, um E-Mail-Adressen herauszufinden
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We're the Usenet Big-8 Management Board. Ask us anything about Usenet, the Internet's oldest surviving discussion network!
Do you see any future in bridges like nntpit?
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Love Complex (2000). I just spent a month subtitling an old Japanese soap opera in its entirety, because it's one of the weirdest shows I've ever seen, and I need to share it with the world.
well
- nntpit: minimalist reddit2nntp gateway
- Melpa.org contains proprietary trackers (google and twitter)? It disrepecting FSF norm?
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Ask HN: Hacker News comment tree indentation on text based web browsers
I don't know the answer to your question, but I see no reason I couldn't add hn support to nntpit, if there was interest.
https://github.com/taviso/nntpit
What are some alternatives?
When comparing fetchpost and nntpit you can also consider the following projects:
haxor-news - Browse Hacker News like a haxor: A Hacker News command line interface (CLI).
neomutt - ✉️ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks -- IRC: #neomutt on irc.libera.chat
hnterm - :page_with_curl: Hacker News in the terminal
LobstersNntp - Lobsters NNTP gateway
desugar
melpa - Recipes and build machinery for the biggest Emacs package repo
Lemmy - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit
tuir
DFeed - D news aggregator, newsgroup client, web newsreader and IRC bot