Ask HN: I miss Usenet. Are there any modern equivalents?

• aether

  171 1,208 0.0 JavaScript

  Aether client app with bundled front-end and P2P back-end

  

• superhighway84

  40 672 5.8 Go

  USENET-inspired, uncensorable, decentralized internet discussion system running on IPFS & OrbitDB

This may help to quench your nostalgia https://github.com/mrusme/superhighway84

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• saidit

  205 216 5.3 Python

  Discontinued The reddit open source fork powering SaidIt

Older versions of reddit were open-source, like the one that was forked to power https://saidit.net/ . That might be a possible starting point, but I bet there are other projects out there too

• nntpserver.py

  4 51 1.8 Python

  No-dependency, single file NNTP server library for developing modern, rfc3977-compliant (bridge) NNTP servers.

I wrote a dependency tree python3 library to make your own NNTP servers:

https://pypi.org/project/nntpserver/0.0.3/

https://github.com/epilys/nntpserver.py

It's used in my link aggregator forum, https://sic.pm/ which also has a mailing list bridge functionality.

As a demo, I have implemented a HN mirror on NNTP: (quoting README.md)

hnnntp.py querying news.ycombinator.com (hackernews) API and caching results in an sqlite3 database. A public instance might be online at nessuent.xyz:564 (TLS only)

• sic

  10 88 8.9 Python

  Discontinued link aggregator community organised by tags (with no javascript)

I wrote a dependency tree python3 library to make your own NNTP servers:

https://pypi.org/project/nntpserver/0.0.3/

https://github.com/epilys/nntpserver.py

It's used in my link aggregator forum, https://sic.pm/ which also has a mailing list bridge functionality.

As a demo, I have implemented a HN mirror on NNTP: (quoting README.md)

hnnntp.py querying news.ycombinator.com (hackernews) API and caching results in an sqlite3 database. A public instance might be online at nessuent.xyz:564 (TLS only)

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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