I miss it as well.
Maybe AI will get good enough soon enough that we can get the benefits of Usenet without the spam and trolling without the necessity of human moderators.
Web based discussion is so brain-dead and aggravating compared to Usenet. You end up with something locked down like WordPress (Nope, you can't say anything related to gambling or boner pills; nope you can't edit your comments after 5 minutes; nope the discussion thread won't last more than a couple of hours; no pictures; nope, nope, nope...) or Disqus (which has its own issues). Threading? Are you kidding? If the bloghost doesn't like threading, you're stuck. And if you don't want to be chained to real-time discussion all the time, you're not wanted. Progress!!1 :-/
We're slowly rolling out an organization-wide web-based collaboration and discussion site at work. It works pretty well - the little I've played with it, but even things like allowing HTML in posts is the subject of long discussion, and then there's the issue of which editor to permit/support... Welcome to the 1990s. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Web based discussion is so brain-dead and aggravating compared to Usenet. You end up with something locked down like WordPress (Nope, you can't say anything related to gambling or boner pills; nope you can't edit your comments after 5 minutes; nope the discussion thread won't last more than a couple of hours; no pictures; nope, nope, nope...) or Disqus (which has its own issues). Threading? Are you kidding? If the bloghost doesn't like threading, you're stuck. And if you don't want to be chained to real-time discussion all the time, you're not wanted. Progress!!1 :-/
We're slowly rolling out an organization-wide web-based collaboration and discussion site at work. It works pretty well - the little I've played with it, but even things like allowing HTML in posts is the subject of long discussion, and then there's the issue of which editor to permit/support... Welcome to the 1990s. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.