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Pugleaf has taken over the Rocksolid legacy and should
be fully functional (haven't tried and logged in myself yet)
The only thing still missing, annoyingly, is a working search
function which was the best thing about the old NovaBBS (and
Google Groups). But apparently they're working on it.
https://rocksolid-us.pugleaf.net/groups/rec.sport.soccer/threads
As for replacements for those that prefer to not use a
newsreader, the great white hope was NovaBBS... but the guy
running that (Retroguy) died. So whatever progress it was
making have obviously been curtailed... for now.
I doubt anything will ever match Google Groups for the depth
of its Usenet archive.
On 10/12/25 16:21, Blueshirt wrote:
I doubt anything will ever match Google Groups for the depth
of its Usenet archive.
pugleaf.net and newsdeef.eu have articles starting somewhere
early '80s. All them spam still included.
https://rocksolid-eu.pugleaf.net/groups/net.crypt
Give it a try. No ads. Zero cookie trackers.
Register freely with email @host.invalid and you can post.
blueworldhosting.com will offer the same coverage via NNTP
soon. We're in the process of transferring and merging
archives.
If anyone wants to setup a new server with INN/Diablo:
We can fill it via nntp-transfer tool from go-pugleaf.
All newsgroups and timeframes selectable from archives.
The latest nntp-transfer code in testing-002 branch is much
faster. Transfer and performance looks good but still dead
locks, rarely :D
On 10/8/25 16:41, Werner Pichler wrote:
Pugleaf has taken over the Rocksolid legacy and should
be fully functional (haven't tried and logged in myself yet)
The only thing still missing, annoyingly, is a working search
function which was the best thing about the old NovaBBS (and
Google Groups). But apparently they're working on it.
https://rocksolid-us.pugleaf.net/groups/rec.sport.soccer/threads
Not sure if search for content will ever be possible.
NovaBBS kept the last 2 years on the web and only ~650 newsgroups.
newsgroups were mostly limited to 10k articles max.
The "spool" was less than 10 GB and bloated by full text search.
The https://rocksolid-us.pugleaf.net
100.000 newsgroups, 1.469 billion articles total (1469589587 as of now).
The data (little less than 8 TB) is in sqlite3 databases per newsgroup.
A "global" search is impossible with this designrCa
Sending the same search request to every newsgroup does not scale well.
You'd sit quite a while opening 100k newsgroups, crawling 8TB of data...
and activating full text search bloats the DBs by an unknown factor.
Did not even try yet :D
Another problem: sql queries with %pattern% don't use indexes...
On 10/12/25 16:21, Blueshirt wrote:
As for replacements for those that prefer to not use a
newsreader, the great white hope was NovaBBS... but the guy
running that (Retroguy) died. So whatever progress it was
making have obviously been curtailed... for now.
I've taken over the old rslight PHP code, tried to fix some things
and finally decided to drop it... way 2 many bugs and insecure
due to bad coding patterns littered throughout the codebase...
I've extracted valuable data from the servers before they died too.
Don't run the old php code online or your server will be hacked...
Little more than 3 months ago I started working on go-pugleaf.
A rewrite in Go, open source and available here: http://github.com/go-while/go-pugleaf
As you see on the web: Some thing is running.
Easy to host your own or use as local reader.
What you need is the release binary or ./build_ALL.sh from source.
run webserver first time with argument:
1. ./webserver -nntphostname my.domain.com
2. connect browser to http://localhost:11980
3. register admin and you'll figure it out :D
4. add newsgroups, enable a server and crons for pugleaf-fetcher**
** internal cron jobs are only available on testing-001 branch atm.
5. Ask any question here.
On 10/12/25 16:21, Blueshirt wrote:
I doubt anything will ever match Google Groups for the depth
of its Usenet archive.
pugleaf.net and newsdeef.eu have articles starting somewhere early '80s.
All them spam still included.
https://rocksolid-eu.pugleaf.net/groups/net.crypt
Give it a try. No ads. Zero cookie trackers.
Register freely with email @host.invalid and you can post.
blueworldhosting.com will offer the same coverage via NNTP soon.
We're in the process of transferring and merging archives.
If anyone wants to setup a new server with INN/Diablo:
We can fill it via nntp-transfer tool from go-pugleaf.
All newsgroups and timeframes selectable from archives.
The latest nntp-transfer code in testing-002 branch is much faster.
Transfer and performance looks good but still dead locks, rarely :D
+ crossposted to:
rocksolid.nodes.help
news.software.nntp
news.software.readers
The https://rocksolid-us.pugleaf.net
100.000 newsgroups, 1.469 billion articles total (1469589587 as of now).
The data (little less than 8 TB) is in sqlite3 databases per newsgroup.
A "global" search is impossible with this designrCa
On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:06:00 +0000
"Billy G." <42-contact-42@pugleaf.net> wrote:
[]
I get 403 "forbidden" just trying to look. Does one need an account just to read?
The https://rocksolid-us.pugleaf.net
100.000 newsgroups, 1.469 billion articles total (1469589587 as of now).
The data (little less than 8 TB) is in sqlite3 databases per newsgroup.
A "global" search is impossible with this designrCa
[xposts dropped, just nsr retained]
On 10/15/25 19:43, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:06:00 +0000
"Billy G." <42-contact-42@pugleaf.net> wrote:
[]
I get 403 "forbidden" just trying to look. Does one need an account just to read?
The https://rocksolid-us.pugleaf.net
100.000 newsgroups, 1.469 billion articles total (1469589587 as of now). >> The data (little less than 8 TB) is in sqlite3 databases per newsgroup.
A "global" search is impossible with this designrCa
[xposts dropped, just nsr retained]
403 where? everywhere? try another browser / user-agent.
On 10/15/25 19:43, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:06:00 +0000
"Billy G." <42-contact-42@pugleaf.net> wrote:
[]
I get 403 "forbidden" just trying to look. Does one need an account just to read?
The https://rocksolid-us.pugleaf.net
100.000 newsgroups, 1.469 billion articles total (1469589587 as of now). >> The data (little less than 8 TB) is in sqlite3 databases per newsgroup.
A "global" search is impossible with this designrCa
[xposts dropped, just nsr retained]
403 where? everywhere? try another browser / user-agent.