Where is everyone?

gather seems to be a form of syndication between web forums, there was a banner at the top of the forum page, saying it was not available on gather. I got distracted into looking at that, more than looking at the actual ukworkshop forum itself ...

e.g. here is that ukworkshop forum, accessed via gather

straight to ukworkshop.co.uk (which has quite a good signal:noise ratio)

Knowing Adam, he 's literally gone and scared the 5h1t out of his apprentice....

Who else would cause a rapid unscheduled defecation in a person? :-D

(c) Elon MUSK who coined RUD as in Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of his rockets

I like that. RUD for the next time I get the trots.

Either that or "the world fell out of your bottom".

He didn't, it's been US-military-speak for decades.

Sorry, either missed it or forgot to reply. I read ukworkshop every day.

Has RootBadger been mentioned yet? It's a work in progress that has Usenet style threading and is even accessible by old fashioned NNTP newsreaders as well as on the web. A nice feature is that you can own your own group and admin it yourself.

I can give invitations on request. It's proprietary of course, being on the web.

Oops, missing link:

what about something like

I'm not keen on anything that hopes to get people to migrate away from usenet, we know what facebook did to various once-popular groups.

If newsbadger speaks nntp, why doesn't it federate with e.g. eternal september as a web frontend? It shouldn't be hard to do a better job than google groups ...

A fair point but the ability to perform admin on groups is a benefit, e.g. Banishing trolls without the need to send often ignored abuse complaints to Usenet server admins.

There would be nothing stopping Newsbadger operating as a cleaned-up usenet feed for its own web users ... a kind of central killfile.

Agreed, I'm not advocating this, I too prefer real Usenet. I just think that RootBadger is relevant and worthy of a mention. Myself, I think the decline of Usenet is mainly due to it being a moribund collection of long-standing cliques populated by ageing users who are beginning to fall off of their perches. There's no cure for that.

I thought there was a suggestion upthread that a web-based forum which uses Usenet style threading might be desirable. Such could be more accessible to newcomers who don't have experience of real Usenet.

AIUI RootBadger aims to "keep it clean" and troll free and does so by being exclusive. It isn't part of Usenet at all, it's a web site that provides a set of aspects of the web including a set of forums that incidentally have been made accessible by NNTP. I don't think it's really breaking much new ground apart from adopting proper threading. It's new and in ongoing development by the Usenet user who built it. It could perhaps be a model for something provided by uk.d-i-y.