I was sent an email

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https://community.embarcadero.com/forum

(see 4th post started by Remy)

The forums are back up (after 2 months) but are now read-only, and no
more NNTP.

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Roy Lambert

Roy Lambert wrote:

> The forums are back up (after 2 months) but are now read-only, and no
> more NNTP.

Big, but not good. Funny, but I had an important question on Delphi that would have possibly been a new project using it, but I had nowhere good to ask, so I used something else instead. Ah well.

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Matthew Jones

Up? Yes, but.
Don't know if it is just my Xananews but aside from the 15/06/2018 post in announce, all the others stop around August 2015.  ???

Ian

Ian Branch wrote:

> Up? Yes, but.
> Don't know if it is just my Xananews but aside from the 15/06/2018
> post in announce, all the others stop around August 2015.  ???
>
> Ian

My understanding is that Remy jumped the gun and the NNTP is not (yet)
running.

Malcolm


You mean this post from Remy....

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guess I spoke too soon:

forums.embarcadero.com/ann.jspa?annID=157

Announcement: Forums are now Read-Only and a new community is coming!

Posted By: Jim McKeeth
Created in: Forum: Announce
Posted: Jun 14, 2018 1:26 PM

Our Embarcadero Community Squirrel has been busy. As you are all aware, the Forums were experiencing several issues and were been taken down. All is not lost though. Your hardworking Embarcadero Community Squirrel is also working on a brand new Community & Forum site that will combine the best of both forums.embarcdero.com and community.embarcadero.com. We're very excited and can't wait to share what we are coming up with. In the meantime, the Community site is still open for now, and you can post there. Plus we brought the forums.embarcadero.com back online in read-only mode until the whole new site is online.

Yours truly,
Jim McKeeth
The Embarcadero Community Squirrel Wrangler

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I wonder if a plain simple web developer, or programmer might be better suited than a "Embarcadero Community Squirrel"?

Do you think some of what they're smoking would make my hip stop hurting?

Roy Lambert

I just went on to post a moan - its truly a horrible experience.


I have to accept cookies, but I can't do that from the page I'm on I have to go to another page and then click the back button.

There are captcha's everywhere - on logon, on posting

Remy's post had moved and I couldn't find it.

A BIG BIG thank you to Tim for keeping NNTP and fixing the problem he had when it occurred and recovering all the posts.


Roy Lambert

On 6/18/2018 10:40 AM, Roy Lambert wrote:
> I just went on to post a moan - its truly a horrible experience.

I simply went to look at the website and web interface is pretty bad -
wasted space on screen (i see 6 topics without scrolling), few generic
categories like "programming" and "ui" now and even trying to pick
category view does not seem to work reliably (and there does not appear
to be a nice category listing except in drop down).

Not going to use this unless absolutely desperate


> A BIG BIG thank you to Tim for keeping NNTP and fixing the problem he had when it occurred and recovering all the posts.

+1

Still most efficient way to catch up on newsgroup postings

Raul

Roy Lambert wrote:

> its truly a horrible experience.

Well done.  You got a lot further than I did.
I'm with everyone else here.  NNTP is the only sane way to follow
newsgroups.

It's a shame that there are so many people with little constructive to
offer society and who then actually try to be antisocial and make
things harder for the good guys 'n gals.  Sorry about the rant.

The Delphi newsgroup situation makes me cry. Honestly such a sign of what is wrong with the company. Information from a good news group is SO valuable for a business. Can feed into their own strategic planning.

Also (as noted by others) gives you a port of call when starting a big new project and needing help, otherwise you might well use another solution!

I will talk to Marco Cantu about this when I see him in London in September!!!!

What's the NNTP details for Tim's NG please?