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A couple of new LWN features

A couple of new LWN features

Posted Apr 27, 2009 19:26 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
Parent article: A couple of new LWN features

Oh, the unread thing is cute, almost like a real .newsrc only not. All I
need now is the same option on every single site I visit. (Bloody
disconnected chaotic web.)

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A couple of new LWN features

Posted Apr 28, 2009 16:50 UTC (Tue) by pboddie (guest, #50784) [Link]

Sounds like RSS with all comment "resources" in the site description (which would make for a very big site description, however); the .newsrc is provided by your feed reader. Of course, Twitter and friends have to reinvent this in a proprietary, centralised way.

almost like a real .newsrc

Posted May 1, 2009 16:54 UTC (Fri) by anton (subscriber, #25547) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes, I was thinking exactly the same thing. Of course the advantage of a real .newsrc is that I can use my favourite newsreader. Maybe the next round of features could include NNTP; ideally through the Usenet backbones to my local NNTP server, but I guess it should be subscriber-only, so to enforce that I guess we would have to connect directly to the LWN NNTP server.

almost like a real .newsrc

Posted May 2, 2009 22:10 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The images would have to be replaced with URLs, and the occasional table
probably autoconverted into an ASCII table (I doubt anyone would care much
anymore if it blew 72 columns), but it should work ;) LWN is basically
textual, after all.

LWN-over-NNTP, an idea whose time has come!

(Chance of implementation: near-zero, alas.)


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