Does anyone in the Group Like This Format?

Looks the same to me

I get here through Google, and they've installed a new *beta* version of Google Groups. Looks completely different, fewer threads on top, harder to navigate, and full of glitches--lost links, odd happenings (I attempted to drag a window larger only to have it disappear completely, returning me to where I started, only now 'where I started' looked different), etc. It is a *beta* version, but damn. . . . I don't like it.

Dan

Ummmmm... "format"? This is Usenet. It doesn't have a format (other than line width), because it's plain text.

Instead of being stuck in the past, methinks you've upgraded something. That something makes your newsreading experience different. Start there, and work forward.

Kevin

But my posting gets posted immediately!!! WOW!!!

Dan

Looks like Google just rolled out there new groups stuff for rec.woodworking. Looks interesting, tho not that relevant to those of us who don't use Google to read newgroups. :)

-BAT

Yeah, not just Google posts, either - I'm posting through my NNTP host and it's showing right up on groups.google.com. For the rest of us, this means searching Usenet via Google will no longer be 8 hours in the past, which is cool...

-BAT

Whatever happened to "If it ain't broke don't fix it."?

FoggyTown

completely,

I also use the Google news and YES the new format Sucketh big time. It's their new format with more advertisements. They complicated a newsreader that was simple and easy. Oh well for now it's still free.

No s*it! The number of posts change when you sort differently, and more than half of the posts by name that used to be there are missing.

I don't use it much, but will now use it less.

Progress ain't what it used to be.

Huh? It looks the same as always here.

"> Yikes! What the *&%$# happened to our group format.

?????????????

Group Format?

I come in through the newsgroup servers. It has always looked this bad to me.

Kinda like it.

Why? Doesn't the gte.net NNTP server carry rec.woodworking?

mozilla has some good tools for killing the ads.

Get Free Agent newsreader

The format is the same, just a larger percentage of glass along with the gems.

Ah, marketing above all else. Read all about it:

-Doug

Apparently, groups.google.com has changed it's web interface to Usenet groups. Depending on what kind of system you have, you've got lots of options to read Usenet that don't involve google's interface. What are you using for a computer?

Dave Hinz

Ummmm, yeah, those of us who looked at his headers already identified the problem and proposed some options for him.

what format???