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by xngzng 4195 days ago
I'm hoping there is a startup that modernise Usenet and put a nice UX on top, similar to what Slack has done to irc. Why should Reddit has all the fun?
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That is a concept to which I've contributed not a few thought cycles to over the years.

Among the more substantial collections of those cycles is here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1t21cj/what_wou...

There are a number of old Usenetters on G+, including Peter da Silva, who at one point was the most prolific poster on Usenet. And, under another identity, the third.

Some recent additions (not on the link):

Why the hell isn't there a "collapsing thread" primitive in HTML? Which I suppose calls for a threaded primitive as well.

I'm pretty much at the point I'm ready to throw in the towel and create an Internet proxy which rewrites all Web pages to strip _all_ the fucking design off of them and deliver them styled pretty much as Readability / Pocket do now.

I'm hoping NOT.

"a nice UX" is what killed the rest of usenet (google groups anyone?)

What killed GG is that for the longest time it was swamped with spam. Took them surprisingly long to get on top of that.
What killed Usenet was AOL, not Google Groups, which was more like an attempt at resuscitation/usurpation than anything else.
If it killed the rest of Usenet, it was no true Scotsman. Erm, not a nice UX.
pretty slack may also kill IRC in the same way (seriously) at some point nobody is going to use either