Free News Reader - Kind of OT

But that?s not an Android newsreader....

I?d be interested to hear of a half decent Android newsreader for my phone. I?ve used NewsGroup Reader by PiaoHong but it?s not great.

Tim

Yes, but you still need some sort of program to read the news. Do you mean you're using your web browser?

I think the consensus is, you won't find one.

I'm really confused by why, for a long time since java apps on blackberries and earlier PDA's, it's been difficult to find a decent newsreader app for both tablets and mobile phones - without resorting to google groups, which is, uuuughhh...

Thread display and navigation seems to be the challenge on a small screen.

The Hudl2 has a great sharp 1280x1200 screen though. Perhaps if you can hide a raspberry pi away in the corner and RDP/VNC/VPN into it, you can make something like Thunderbird workable?

Hi all

Can anyone recommend a replacement for my current newsreader Sina App?

I've been using it for years, but more often than not recently the scroll option freezes so I can't read the second half of long posts without moving to google groups.

I use an android Hudl if anyone remembers these accessing content via eternal-september.

Thanks

Phil

Why? Usenet news works *very* well in an 80 column text window so I really can't see why a very similar text interface shouldn't work on a mobile or tablet.

Hmmm, that is one answer ... Tin etc could work in a terminal emulator, but it would need a virtual keyboard added for navigation keys losing screen estate.

Compared with the rest of the phone/tablet GUI, and modern desktop applications, this would seem a bit archaic, and chase them in the direction of Google Groups.

Some users could be forgiving though ...

Groundhog.

I suspect a combination of a dying platform, plus a desire to appify everything for data mining.

You and I may know about USENET but I would make money from wagering 50% of those that "work in IT" would not have a clue. As for IRC ...

My bad, I read that as being a feed rather than a newsreader

And I for one am quite happy for the Farcebook generation to remain ignorant. Used IRC heavily in the days of dial-up and high international call charges to communicate to and fro when I had dealings and travel to Asia.

No, brain not engaged. I read Sina App as being a news feed not a news reader.

The problem with low volume usage is it relies a little on charity and ignorance to keep going. Not great for reliability.

However it amuses me all the media (and hence politicians) wittering on about the Johnny-come-latelys of social media needing controlling. If I wanted to communicate securely and anonymously, USENET was pretty much made for the job. No need for any dodgy apps ...

Usenet is a distributed system and therefore hard to close down, unlike IMDb comments pages a few years ago.

All usenet requires is a set of mutually cooperative servers running a protocol older than the Internet!

Plus a handful of clients that can access them

And come the Eternal September, armed with nothing more than kill files, we dealt with trolls or indulged in flame wars whichever...The Snoflake generation wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes back in the alt. hierarchy back in the day.

Groundhog was fine but doesn't work on modern devices as there's no menu button. The virtual menu button (long press on "recent/switch") has gone too. This leaves no way to get to Groundhog's configuration options, though maybe this would help ...

options,

Replying via Groundhog on a Galaxy S9, Android 10 with the menu button emulator. It works but is fairly clunky and displays ads in spite of Ublock and Pihole.

options,

Mine has Settings on the front screen and three dots on the bottom right with various options. (Hudl 2; which the OP has).

Hello Max

Does the above mean that you have got Groundhog working on a HUDL with some degree of usability?

Thanks

Phil