XPost: alt.fan.usenet   
   From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Fri, 30 Aug 2024, Anton Shepelev wrote:   
      
   > Rich to yeti:   
   >   
   >>> News readers had decades of evolution more than New   
   >>> Fedistan clients.   
   >>   
   >> This is very true, and I'd bet if we could time travel   
   >> back to the way distant past, that many of the very useful   
   >> features we take for granted in Usenet clients today would   
   >> not be present in those early clients.  The features got   
   >> added when the irritation level of whatever caused the add   
   >> exceeded the effort of writing the code for the additional   
   >> feature.   
   >>   
   >> Mastadon clients are in their 'very young child' age range   
   >> of evolution.  Maybe in 30 years (assuming Mastadon's   
   >> still a thing in 30 years) they will have learned from   
   >> Usenet and added the useful Usenet client features.   
   >   
   > I fear it will never come to pass, because modern platforms   
   > are philosphically, ideologically, and aesthetically   
   > incompatible with Usenet. The are designed to conform to   
   > modern UX trends that promote a /negative entry threshold/,   
   > an entry dip if you will, and substitute tawdriness for   
   > elegance.   
   >   
      
   Well, that's where small, individual open source projects fill an   
   important niche. The big markets do push things into the same directions,   
   but there's plenty of room for creative, individual unique projects.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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