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by Mikhail_Edoshin 30 days ago
I frequented a forum with a two-pane UI with a tree in one page and the text in another. It encouraged long posts; was used for political and historical discussions. And what was amazing was that it had a seamless NNTP backend, you could easily participate using an news client, which was nearly every email client those days.
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HardlyCognizant 30 days ago
Do they roll their own software, or is it a purchased solution? I'd love to know more about the application powering it.
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Mikhail_Edoshin 29 days ago
It was their own software; and it was long time ago, so I didn't think it was still functioning, but, to my surprise, it still is:

https://vif2ne.su/nvk/forum/0/0.htm

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