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  • narkive.com dead?

    From Colin Macleod@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 5 09:23:49 2025
    The alternatives for web interfaces to Usenet seem to be getting very restricted.
    First novaBBS, now https://narkive.com/ seems to have died too.
    Does anyone know the story here?

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  • From Colin Macleod@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 5 12:28:06 2025
    Colin Macleod <user7@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

    The alternatives for web interfaces to Usenet seem to be getting very restricted.
    First novaBBS, now https://narkive.com/ seems to have died too.
    Does anyone know the story here?


    It's been resurrected!

    I managed to find the admin's email, alerted him, and he has fixed it.

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    Colin Macleod ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ https://cmacleod.me.uk

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  • From Dave Royal@21:1/5 to Computer Nerd Kev on Thu Aug 7 07:12:05 2025
    not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Wrote in message:

    Colin Macleod <user7@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    Colin Macleod <user7@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
    The alternatives for web interfaces to Usenet seem to be getting very restricted.
    First novaBBS, now https://narkive.com/ seems to have died too.
    Does anyone know the story here?

    It's been resurrected!

    Great, and it's letting me use it from the Dillo web browser again
    now. Last time I tried it Narkive seemed to have joined the
    ever-growing ranks of websites accusing me of being a bot.

    It used to accuse me of being a bot using Firefox/Android. If I
    scroll down a group looking for a past thread I have to tap
    'Click to Load More' to scroll further. After a couple of those
    it used to ask me to do one of those tests with pictures of
    traffic lights or whatever, and once I'd completed that it
    started again at the top of the group. Useless.

    I just tried it again. No traffic lights now but it just stops
    after a few tap on 'Load More'. Better: it fails quicker. I
    suppose it's just limiting traffic.
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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@21:1/5 to Colin Macleod on Thu Aug 7 07:36:28 2025
    Colin Macleod <user7@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    Colin Macleod <user7@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
    The alternatives for web interfaces to Usenet seem to be getting very restricted.
    First novaBBS, now https://narkive.com/ seems to have died too.
    Does anyone know the story here?

    It's been resurrected!

    Great, and it's letting me use it from the Dillo web browser again
    now. Last time I tried it Narkive seemed to have joined the
    ever-growing ranks of websites accusing me of being a bot.

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  • From s|b@21:1/5 to Colin Macleod on Tue Aug 5 20:18:18 2025
    On Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:28:06 GMT, Colin Macleod wrote:

    It's been resurrected!

    I managed to find the admin's email, alerted him, and he has fixed it.

    Nice one!

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    s|b

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  • From Anthk NM@21:1/5 to Computer Nerd Kev on Mon Aug 11 10:35:30 2025
    On 2025-08-06, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
    Colin Macleod <user7@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
    Colin Macleod <user7@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
    The alternatives for web interfaces to Usenet seem to be getting very restricted.
    First novaBBS, now https://narkive.com/ seems to have died too.
    Does anyone know the story here?

    It's been resurrected!

    Great, and it's letting me use it from the Dillo web browser again
    now. Last time I tried it Narkive seemed to have joined the
    ever-growing ranks of websites accusing me of being a bot.


    If you can use Dillo, I'd guess you wouldn't have too much issues
    by just using slrn; unless you use the Windows port for the
    mainline Dillo (or some smartphone with postmarketOS).

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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@21:1/5 to Anthk NM on Wed Aug 13 12:06:32 2025
    Anthk NM <anthk@openbsd.home> wrote:
    On 2025-08-06, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
    Great, and it's letting me use it from the Dillo web browser again
    now. Last time I tried it Narkive seemed to have joined the
    ever-growing ranks of websites accusing me of being a bot.


    If you can use Dillo, I'd guess you wouldn't have too much issues
    by just using slrn; unless you use the Windows port for the
    mainline Dillo (or some smartphone with postmarketOS).

    I use Narkive just for viewing old threads, since it's impractical
    to download all the headers from a news server going back years.
    Although I'm currently experimenting with the news overview
    caching feature in Tin which might allow that to work better.

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